Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

2l8 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. X.
Madana fruit, honey and clarified butter. After that
she should have an Anuvdsana (enema) made up of
oil prepared with milk and decoction of the drugs
known as the Madhurddi-gana. This restores the Vayu
to its normal course and condition, which brings on
an easy and natural parturition unattended with any
puerperal disorders. Henceforth up to the time of
delivery the enciente should have liquid food (Yavagu)
made up of emollient substances (fatsy and soup of the
flesh of Jangala animals (deer, etc.). If treated on these
lines the enciente remains healthy and strong, and
parturition becomes easy and unattended with evils.
An enciente should be made to enter the lying-in
chamber in the ninth month of her pregnancy and
under the auspices of happy stars and propitious
lunar conditions. The chamber of confinement (Sutika-
o-riha) in respect of a Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vais'ya and
Sudra mother should be raised on grounds respectively
possessed of white, red, yellov/ and black soils, and
made of Vilva, Vata, Tinduka and Bhallataka wood.
Couches should be made of these woods respectively
in cases of the different social orders. The walls of
the room should be well-plastered and the furniture
(necessary accessories) should be placed tidy in their
proper places. The door of a lying-in chamber should
be made to face the south or the east, and the inner
dimensions of the room should be eight cubits in length
and four in breadth. Religious rites for warding off
the visitation of evil spirits and malignant stars should
be undertaken at (the door of) the room. 3.
Signs of imminent parturition—(M-
T.) :— A looseness of the sides of the abdomen and
untying of the umbilical cord of the child (from the
cardiac cord of its mother) and a perception of the