Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

in any way you may wish. — Writing again in November 1893, he says, — . I am surprised that your excellent and most useful translation has not attracted more attention. . Our Regius Professor of Medicine, Sir Henry Edward, was much interested

Sir Monier Williams, K. C. I. E. X have received your kind gift of the successive parts of the Charaka and Susruta Samhita. I regard them, as a valuable addition to my library. No doubt, an English translation would be very interesting.

Dr. Reinhold Rost, C. I. E. late Librarian to the India Office— . Your excellent translation . . a most valuable and praiseworthy work which will not fail.

to make ancient Hindu medicine better understood and appreciated in the West .

I shall draw the attention of Oriental scholars to your difficult and meritorious work

. Many important additions to your Sanskrit dictionaries will be gleaned from your translation.

Austin Flint, Esq., New York , U. S A. : — I have read w'ith much pleasure the first fasciculus of your translation of Charaka Samhita and shall be very glad to receive the rest of the work, it cannot fail to be of great interest to the medical profession, which Will be under great obligations to you.

A. H. Edgren, Esq., Gothenburgh, Sweden -.-l am deeply interested in anything Indian, and I need not say that I shall consider it as a gain to obtain whatever insight I may into the subject treated of in your valuable translation.

Professor A. V. Williams Jackson., Columbia College, New York, U. S. A.— I must congratulate you, with true appreciation of your efforts. I should very much like to make a little note, in one of our papers, of the praiseworthy work you are doing, Be assured, Sir, of my hearty thanks and appreciation and of my deep interest in India and antique lore.

Mons. A. Barth., Paris Your efforts to place within reach of the readers of ancient literature a work of so interesting a nature both to the Oriental scholars and to the men Of medicine, are very praiseworthy, and I shall be happy to bring the work to the notice of the French public, or, at least, of those who take an interest in these researches.

Mons. B. St. Hailaire, Paris /—I praise you on your undertaking and wish you all success. The work is of interest to all learned men and to medical men, and the commentaries written on it prove its value and utility. I will put in a notice in the journal des Savants as soon as I can and shall be happy to do you j ustice.

Professor H. Jacobi, Bonn University, Germany .-—The work you have undertaken will interest Sanskritists as well as medical men who care for the history of their science. I shall not fail to draw the attention of some eminent physicians whom I know personally, to the ancient work of Charaka.

Herr. R. Garbe, Prinzenstram Konigsbureh, Germany Engh Charaka Samhita is, perhaps, at least from an historical point of view, the work of the medical literature of your country.

Sir Alfred Croft, M. A., C. I. E„ been greatly entertained as well as edified by the examination, in part IV, of all the things which a man shall not do. A layman can understand the precepts and such a guide to life, cannot be other than valuable.

CHARAKA-'SAMHITA.

1271.

Prisniparni, i. e., Doodia logopodioides ), Choraka ( Andropogon acicularis ), Katurohini ( Picrorrhiza Kurroa ), Kfiyastha (otherwise called Amlaka, i. e., the fruits of Phyllanthus Emblica ), £ukari (otherwise called Varâhi, i. e., an esculent root called Chamar-Slu in Bengali), Cchatra (otherwise called Madhurika, i. e., fennel seeds), AticchatrS (otherwise called (^atSpushpa, i. e., Pucedanum. Sowa or dill seeds), Palankasha (otherwise called Gokshuraka, i. e., Tribulus terrestris ), Mahapurushadanta (otherwise called £atamuli, i. e., Asparagus racemosus), Vayastha (otherwise called Vibhitaka, i. e., Terminalia Bellericd), the two Nakulis (otherwise called Rasna, i. e., Vanda Roxburghii , and Gandha-RSsnS or the scented variety of the same), Katambhara (otherwise called Gandha-bhadulia, i. e., Pcedria fcetida)t Vrischikali {Tragi a involucrata ), and Sthira {Hedysarum Gangeticum ) :

Ghee boiled with these is alleviative of quartan fever, Insanity, the influence of evil spirits, and epilepsy. This ghee is~called MahapaigSchika and is regarded as equal to ‘Amrita’ .or nectar itself. It strengthens the memory and the understanding, and promotes the growth of children. 56-5 8

Even this is the composition of ‘Mahapaijachika Ghrita.’

Take a hundred Lagunas (garlics), thirty chebulic myrobalans (without their seeds), a ‘pala’ of Tryushana (/. e., dry ginger, the fruits of Piper longum , and black pepper), the ashes of cow-skin, of the measure of sixteen palas, and sixteen seers of cow’s milk and cow’s urine. One prastha of old ghee , cooked with these, should be admi¬ nistered (in Insanity).

To it, however, when cooled, should be added a pala of the pulv of assafoetida, and a Mfinika of honey.*