Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

294 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. fCliap IV.
plot of land, so as to make the soil black. The fire
should be kept burning one whole night ; on the
following morning on the extinction of the fire the ashes
should be removed and the ground, when cool, should
be soaked with one hundred Ghatas (six thousand and
four hundred seers) of oil cooked with the drugs of
the Viddri-gandJiddi group and with the same quantity
of milk and kept in that condition for one night more.
On the next morning the earth should be dug up, down
to the stratum found to have been soaked with the oil
and the soil should then be dissolved in warm water in
large cauldrons for the purpose. The oil that will be
found floating on the surface of the water should be
skimmed off with both hands and kept in a safe basin.
Then the decoction of the Vayu-subduing drugs (the
Bhadra-darvadi group), meat-juice, milk, fermented rice-
gruel (each taken in a quantity measuring a quarter
part of that oil) should be taken one thousand times
and each time should be boiled with the oil. Vayu-
subduing and aromatic drugs and spices, in the northern
i^trans-Himalaya) and southern (Deccan) countries, should
be thrown into it and boiled with the oil. The boiling
should be completed within the period during which it
could be properly done. Then after the completion of
tne cooking, conch-shells should be blown, Dundubhis
should be sounded, umbrellas should be held open,
chowries should be blown into it and a thousand
BrAhmins should be treated with repasts. The oil so
sacredly prepared should be stored carefully in golden,
silver or earthen pitchers. This oil is called the
Sahasrapaka-Taila and is of irresistible potency and
fit even for the use of kings. Satapatka-Taila is also
prepared in the above manner (with the aforesaid ingre-
dients) by cooking it one hundred times only. 23.