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Chap. X.] SARIRA STIIANAM. 237
(5) Vrihati, Kantakdri, Kas'mari, sprouts (Sunga) and
barks of milk-exuding trees (as, Vata, etc.), and clarified
butterf ; (6) Pris'ni-parni, Vala, Sigru, S'vadanshtra
and Madhuparnika ; and (7) S'ring'taka, Visa (stalks
of lotus), Draksha, Kas'aru, Madhuka (Yashtimadhu),
and sugar ; should successively be given with milk* to
an enciente, from the first to the seventh month of her
gestation, in the case of a threatened miscarraige or
abortion. 53.
An enciente should be made to drink milk boiled
with the roots of Kapittha, Vrihati, Vilva, Patola,
Ikshu and Kantakari, (in case of impending or
threatened miscarraige) in the eighth month of her
pregnancy. In the ninth month (and under similar
conditions), the potion should be made up of Madhuka
(Yashtimadhu), Ananta-mula, Payasha and Sariva. In
the tenth month (and under similar conditions), a potion
consisting of milk boiled with Sunthi and Payasya
is beneficial, or, in the alternative, may be given a potion
made up of milk with Sunthi, Madhuka (Liquorice; and
Devadaru. The severe pain would vanish and the
foetus would continue to develop safely- in the womb,
under the aforesaid mode of treatment. 54-57.
A child born of a woman, who had remained sterile
(not-conceived) for a period of six years (Niviitta-
prasava;* after a previous child-birth, becomes a short-
lived one. 58.
* Chakradatta reads "Visam" (stalks of lotus) instead of "Ghritam"
(clarified butler).
t If a conception does no', occur in a woman for a period of more than
five years a'^ter a child-birth, she is called Nivrittaprasava.
* Sivadasa also says that powders of these drugs should be given
with boiled milk, but he adds that some authorities recommend theae
drugs to be boiled in rnilk according to Kshira-paka-vidhi.