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306 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. V.
of perspiration, quivering, delirium and the numbness
of genitals, found not to fall on the i^Tound but capable
of being supported on his arms (Akhattd-pati) and whose
trunk is not bent or arched on its posterior (dorsal) side
(Vahirayama), may be attempted (with success). The body
of the patient should be first anointed with emulsions
(Sneha) and then fomented ; strong medicated snuff
should then be administred for purifying (the accumu-
lated mucus in) the head. After that the patient should
be made to drink a clear potion prepared of clarified
butter, cooked in combination with a decoction of the
drugs constituting the Vidari-gandhadi group, extract
of meat, milk and milk-curd, so as to arrest the further
expansion of the deranged Vayu into the system.
Traivrita Ghrita :—A decoction of the V^yu-
subduing drugs, such as, Bhadra-ddrvddi, etc., barley,
Kidattha pulse, Kola, and the flesh of the Anupa and
Audaka animals with the Pancha-Vargassc should be
* According to Jejjata, "Pancha-Vargam" means the flesh of the five
kinds of Anupa animals, viz,^ Kuiachara, Plava, Kos'astha, Padin and
Matsya (fishes).
The reading here is doubtful. The term "Audaka" in the compound
word " Sanupaudaka-mamsam " seems to be redundant, inasmuch as
"Audaka" animals are included in the "Anupa" class. (Sutra, chap.
XLVI. Page 487, Vol I). In this case the word " Pancha-vargam " also
seems to be only an explanation of the term "Anupa" meaning the fiive
kinds of Anupa flesh, and it seems to have surreptitiously crept into the body
of the text from the marginal notes of some authoritative manuscript copy
of the book. If, however, we are to abide by the current reading of the
book, "Panch'a-varga" cannot mean the five kinds of flesh in the presence
of the word ''Audaka" mentioned separately, as Jejjata would have it. In
that case it can only mean either the five groups of Pancha-mulas, viz., the
major Pancha-mulas, the minor Pancha-mulas, the Valli-Pancba-mulas,
the Kantaka-Pancha-mulas and the Tiina-Pancha-muIas. (Sutra, chap,
XXXVIII, Pages 355-6, Vol, I), as some would explain it to mean. Others,
however, prefer the reading as it is and explain the term "Fancha-varga"
to be the five kinds of medicinal drugs mentioned before in the sentence,