Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

Chap. XIII.] NIDANA STHANAM. 8^
Kumuda bulb in shape, are called Panasika. They
are due to the action of the deranged Kapham and
Vayu. Pashana-Garddabha :—A slightly painful and
non-shifting hard swelling, which appears on the joint
of the jawbones, (Hanu-sandhi; is called Pashana-
Garddabha. The disease is the effect of the deranged
Kapham and Vayu. Jala-Garddabha :—A thin and
superficial swelling, which like erysipelas is of a
shifting or progressive character and is further attended
with fever and a burning sensation and which is but
rarely found to suppurate, is called Jala-Garddabha.*
The disease results from the deranged Pittam.
Kaksha —The disease characterised by the eruptions of
black and painful vesicles ;^ShphotaJ on the back, sides,
and on the region about the arm-pits, is called Kakshd.
The disease is likewise attributed to the action of the
aggravated Pittam. Vishphotaka —The disease in
which eruptions of burnlike vesicles (Shphota) crop up
on the whole surface of the body, or on that of any
particular locality, attended with fever, is called Vish-
photaka. The disease is the effect of vitiated blood
and Pittam. 9— 14.
Agni-Rohinif ;— Vesicles (Shphota) having the
appearance of burns and cropping up about the waist
* The circular raised spots studded with vesicles are called Gardda-
bha. They are reddish and painful and produced by ihe action of Vayu
and Piitaui. Gayadasa reads it so.
+ Dallana quotes from another Tantram that the morbific principles
in men, aggravated through the action of the enraged and augmented
Pittam and blood, give rise to vesicles (blisters) like red-hot charcoal by
breaking open the flesh at the waibt, attended with extreme pain, high
fever and an insufferable burning sensation which, if not properly remedied,
bring on diath within a fortnight, or ten days of their first appearance.
These (vesicles) are called Vahni- Rohini. And again from another work
he cites that a case oiVahni Kohini due to the action of the deranged-