Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

CHAR A KA -SA HM/TA.

A cow also should be kept, yielding copious milk, of arquie^ disposition, healthy, having all her calves living* well tended withfood and drink, and kept in a fold that is properly cleaned. So also should be kept little vessels or cups, larger vessels for washing the hands and face, water-vessels or jars, small jars or pitchers^ dishes, metallic or earthen jars, cauldrons or pans, larger and smaller jars,f vessels called kundas, hollow vessels for covering, articles, wooden or metallic ladles, mats, covers of cloth or blankets, vessels for boiling oils and ghee, churning rods, deer-skins and' sheepskins, rags, cloths made of cotton and wool, strings and chords, beds and seats, vessels’ called Bhringaras full of water and flatter vessels for holding spittle and evacuations, all placed ready for use, good Beds placed upon bedsteads and overlaid with white sheets J and containing pillows, for use when sleep is needed,, beds and carpets for lying down or sitting upon, articles necessary for the operations of Sneha, Sweda, Avyanga, plasters, fomentation,, rubbing, vomiting, purging, application of oily or other kinds of enemata, errhines, urination^ and passing of stools, well-washed mullers, and flat stones that are smooth and rough and neither smooth nor rough, and diverse kinds of instruments, domestic and surgical. Smoking tubes, enemas, and enemas of a special kind called uttaravastikas, brushes and brooms, balances and weights, measuring vessels and baskets, Ghee, oil, fat, marrow, honey, treacle, salt, fuel, water, honey-wines, sour gruels of different varieties, different kinds of wines, whey, butter-milk, sour gruel of paddy or rice, and the different varieties of animal urine, should also be kept ready.

So also £ali ( a ), Shashtika (£), MudgA (c), Masha (d),

* If a cow loses a calf, that is taken as an indication of ill-HealtH or of some' disease. — T.

+ These are all vessels' of smaller or larger size for Holding water, 'fhey differ also’ in shapes. — T.

(a) . A- variety of paddy.

(b) . Ditto., so called for it is supposed to1 ripen in 60 days.

(c) . Phaseolus Mungo.

(id). Phaseolus Roxburgliti ; syn. Ph, radiatus, Roxb.

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;3esame, Kulattha (a), Vadara($l, Mridvika (c), Parushaka (d), Abhaya ( e ), Amlaka (/), Vibhitaka (g) and diverse other articles fit for the extraction of Sneha and for Svveda, as also emetics and pur¬ gatives, and articles that are both emetics and purgatives, those that are astringent, that increase the appetite, promote digestion, cool the system, and destroy the wind, should be kept ready. Besides these, such other articles should be kept ready as may be needed in view of other anticipated evils. Other things, again, that may conduce to the ease, comfort, and happiness of the patient, should similarly be kept ready. ?

Having kept these articles ready for use, the patient should be treated with either Oils or Sweda as the case may demand. If .during the period of spch treatment any mental or physical disease of a violent character suddenly afflicts the patient, the physician should strive to suspend the administration of Oils and Sweda-9*

Having suspended the administration of Oils and Sweda, the physician should, during the period of suspension, adopt towards the patient the treatment that is laid down for that mental or physical disease whose appearance has been sudden. After such adventitious disease will have been cured by this means, the physi¬ cian should recommence the administration of Oils and Sweda. When in consequence of such administration the patient is seen to become cheerful and restored to happiness, and regain such appetite as to properly digest what has been taken the day before (in the form of food or drink), then should he be caused to bathe by plunging in water up to the neck.f to smear his body

(a) . Dolichos unijlorus ; $yn. Dolichos biflorus, Roxh.

(b) . Zizyphus Jujuba.

(c) . Dried grapes, called Kiss-Miss. Uvce passes.

( d) . Grewia Asiatica, Linn.

( e) . Terminalia Chebula.

( f) . Phyllanthus Emblica , Linn.

(g) . Terminalia Bellerica. Roxb.

* The Commentator explains that - asya ’ in the last line means ‘ Snehasya ’ or Swedasya va. — T.

f I. e., the head should not be permitted to be plunged into the water. —T.

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