Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

534 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. XXlX
anoint (the body) and the decoction of Soma-vnlka for
bathing (Pari sheka). The same should be prescribed
on the tenth day, and from thence the skin becomes
firm. The eleventh and twelfth day should be passed
in the same way. From the thirteenth till the sixteenth
day (both the days inclusive) the body should be washed
with the decoction of Somavalka. New teeth well-
formed, symmetric^il, strong, hard and as clear as a
diamond or crystal or ruby would appear on the seven-
teenth and eighteenth days. Gruels (Yavagu) pre-
pared with old S'dli-rice and milk should form his diet
till the twenty-fifth day. After that period well boiled
S'AH rice should be taken in the morning and evening
with milk. Fixed, glossy and coral coloured finger-
nails resembling the new rising sun in lusture and
possessed of auspicious marks would be found to be
growing after the lapse of that period and hair begin
to grow, the skin would assume the soft hue of a blue
lotus (Nilotpala), Atasi flower or of a ruby stone.
After a month the hair should be shaved and a plaster
composed of Us'ira, Chandana and black sesamum
applied to the scalp, and the patient should take a
milk-bath. This would lead to the growth of deep
bee-black curls of hair in the course of a week. 7-B.
Then the patient should be allowed to stir out from
the inmost chamber only to re-enter it again after a stay
of a Muhurta (forty-eight minutes) in the outer chamber.
Thenceforth Valai taila (described before) should be used
in anointing (Abhyanga) his body ; pasted barley in
rubbing (Udvartana) ;
tepid milk in washing (Parisheka)
it ; and a decoction of Aja-karna in rubbing (Utsddana)
the dirt of. Similarly well water (scented) with Vs'ira
should be used for the purpose of bathing (Snana)
Sandal pastes as unguents (Anulepana) and the expressed
;