Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

2/0 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. II.
socket) the affected organ should be re-instated in its
natural cavity in a manner so as not to disturb the
connected Siras (nerve arrangements) and gently pressed
with the palms of the hand by first putting a lotus leaf
on its (eye) surface. After that the eye should be filled
(Tarpana) with the following (D.R,— Ajena in place of
'Anena"— i.e., prepared from goat's milk) medicated
clarified butter, which should be as well used in the
form of an errhine. The recipe is as follows :—Clarified
butter prepared from goat's milk, Madhuka, Utpala,
Jivaka and Rishavaka taken in equal parts should
be pasted together, and cooked with sixteen seers of
cow's milk and four seers of clarified butter.* The
use of the medicated Ghrita thus prepared should be
regarded as commendable in all types of occular hurt or
injury. 29.
In the case of a perforation of the abdomen marked
by the discharge of lumps or rope-like Varti (fat)
through the wound, the emitted or ejected fat-lump
should be dusted with the burnt ashes (D. R. — powders)
of astringent woods (such as Manu, Arjtina, etc.) and
black clay (pounded together). A ligature of thread
should then be bou'id round the fat-lump and the fat-
lump cut off with a heated instrument. Honey should
then be applied and the wound (Vrana) should then
be duly bandaged. The patient should be caused
to drink clarified butter after the full digestion of his
injested food. Instead of this Ghrita, milk prepared
* Several authorities, however, say that equal parts of clarified
butter prepared from goat's milk and from cow's milk should be taken and
cooked with 16 seers of cow's milk and with the four drugs as a Kalka.
But Gayi recommends only four seers of clarified butter prepared from
goat's milk cooked wilh i6 seers of cow's milk and the four drugs as
a Kalka.