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An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita (Bhishagratna ed.)

Sutrasthanam, Ch. XV (definition of svastha) — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna, 1907/1911

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“The person whose Doshas are in a state of equilibrium, whose appetite is good, whose Dhatus are performing their normal functions, whose excretions are in their normal state, and whose Atma (self), mind and senses are full of bliss, is called a healthy man (Svastha).”— Sutrasthanam, Ch. XV (definition of svastha) — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna, 1907/1911

The complete text — part 105 of 105

* Mention of Madhuka twice in the list shows that one part each of both the kinds Yashti-madhu (liquorice)— grown on lands and in water— should be taken.

Chap. VIII.] KALPA STHANAM. 76r

All cases of bites by any insect or by any snake,
and ulcers incidental to those bites should be carefully
treated with measures and remedies laid down in
connection with snake-bites as long as the stage of
inflammation and suppuration would last. The growths
(if any) of pappillae (Karnika) around the seat of the
bite should be removed after the subsidence of the
swelling by the application of a plaster consisting of
Nimba leaves,* Trivrit^ Danti^ Kusiimbha flower, Rajani,
honey, Guggulu, Saindhava salt, Kinva and the dung of
a pigeon pasted together, and such diet as would not
aggravate the effects of poison should be carefully pre-
scribed. The papillatous growths (Karnika) due to the
poison of any kind should be scratched with a proper
surgical instrument in the event of their being hard and
painless and should then be plastered with a paste of
purifying (Sodhaniya) drugs (such as Nimba leaves, etc.)
mixed with honey. 66.

The specific features and treatment of the bites by
the one hundred and sixty -seven types of insect are
now described. The subjects mentioned but not included
within these one hundred and twenty chapters (from the
commencement of the book) would be dealt with in
detail in the latter part of the present treatise (Uttara
Tantara). (y^j 6S.

We have not heard of a holier discourse than the
medical science on account of the eternal and imperish-
able character of the Ayurveda (the science of life)
from its tested merit and its beneficial effects upon the
created beings and since it is always worshipped by the
whole human race for the fact of its fully explaining

* Gayaddsa reads "S'ikhi" (Langalaki) and "Vams'a" (scrapings of bamboo) in place of "Nimba-patra". He also reads **Danta" (toofh of a cow) in place of "Kinva."

762 THE StJSllRUTA SAMlllTA- [Chap. VllI,

the import of words {i.e. delineation of its specific sub- jects). Who ever stores up in his memory and acts up to these sacred and worshipful injunctions on the science of life propounded, as it is, by the nectar-origined sage (Dhanvantari), the preceptor of all physicians and equal to the celestial Indra in respect of majesty, enjoys happiness both in this world and in the next. 69.

Thus ends the eighth Chapter of the Kalpasihana in the Sus'nita Samhila which treats of the measures to he adopted in the case of an insect-bite.

Here ends the Kalpa Sthana.

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