Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

0. Difficult to identify ; said to grow on the summits of the Himalayas, having leaves like bull's horns, p. Called also Tagarapadika , not identifiable now.

q. Called Nilasundi in Bengali, Nymphcea cerula.

r. Vide note d in p. 21.

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CHARAKA-SAMHITA

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.

Published by

ABINASH CHANDRA KAV1RATNA,

Editor of Caharaka Samhita and of Susruta Samhita

(in original) WITH COMMENTARIES; BENGALI AND

Hindi translator of Charaka Samhita and . of Susruta Samhita ; editor of ChikitsaSAMMILANI ( Medical Journal in Bengali) ; PRACTITIONER OF the Hindu System of Medicine,

&c., &c., &c.

Calcutta ;

Printed by D. C. Dass & Co., “Corinthian Press,” 33, New China Bazar

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1892.

( The right of translation is reserved. )

ERRATA.

In page 1, 3rd line of the first note, for

Vakhyasyamah read Vyakhyasyamah

In ditto, 5th line of the 1 first note, for

Bhagamana read Bhagavan (Norn, sing, of Bhagaval) In page 10, note a, for meriifolia read neriifolia.

In page i t, note c, for raceniosa read racemosa.

In page 22, note e, first line, for

Rasanja read Rasanjana.

In page 23, note q , first line, for

Vedavara read Vesavars.

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CHARAKA-SAMHITA.

p. 25

Prapaundarika (a), Suradaru(^), Kushtha(c), Yashti(a?), Ela(<?). Kamala(y), and Utpala(^), Loha(A), Eraka(z'), Padmakastha(/), and Choraka(^), may be applied, with clarified butter, as a plaster, in headaches.22

Rasna(/j, the two kinds of Haridra(»z), Nalada(«), the two varieties of ^atahva(o), Devadaruf/), Sitopala(y), the root of Jivanti(r), with clarified butter and oil of sesamum, may be applied, while warm, as a plaster in pleurisy.*23

Moss, lotus, Utpala(j), Vetra(^), Tunga(w), Prapaundarika(w), Amrinala(w), Lodhra(x), Priangu(y), Kaleyaka(a), and sandal wood, with clarified butter, form a plaster that relieves burning of the skin.2* a. Root-stock of Nyinphoea Lotus. Dr. Sircar was misled by his Kaviraj into the supposition that this is an unidentifiable plant.

b. Cedrus deodar a ; Syn. Pinus deodara.

c. Saussurca auriculata ; syn. Aplotaxis auriculata.

d. Liquorice.

e. Cardamoms (large).

f. Nilumbium Speciosum.

g. Nymphaa stellata.

h. Called also A guru ; Aquilaria agallocha.

i. Typha angustifolia; syn. Typha elephantina.

j. The same as Prapaundarika ; vide note a above.

k. Called also Chorepushpi (vide Comment ary J. Andropogan acicularis.

l. Vanda Roxburghii ; syn. Cymbidium tassaloides.

m. Circumlonga and Berberis Asiatica.

n. Called also Jatamansi or Mangsi. Valeriana Jatamansi ; syn. Nardostachys

Jatamansi.

o. The two varieties are called by the names of Catapushpi and Madhurika. The former is sometimes called Calupha or Misreya, Pucedanium Sovia and Faniculum Vulgare.

p. Vide note b above.

q. Candied sugar.

r. Calogyne ovalis.

s. Vide note g above.

t. Called also Vetasa. Calamus rotang ; syn. Calamus Roxburghii.

u. Called also Punnaga. Calophyllum inophyllum. Following Roxburgh and

Brandis both of whom erroneously identified Kampilla with Punnaga, Dr. Sircar gives Rottlera tinctoria as the name of Punnaga. Kampilla’ or Kampillaka is an altogether different tree from Punnaga. Vide Ayuvedartha Chandrika.

v. Vide note a above.

w. Called also Ucira (vide Commentary^; in Bengali, Benamul or khas-khas. Andropogon muricatum.

x. Symplocos racemosa.

y. Aglaia Roxburghiana.

z. The Commentator identifies it with Kaliya-wood ; a kind of dark, or rather,