Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

Chap. XXX.] CHIKITSA STHANAM. 543
from roots (and has no bulb) and is furnished with five
red-coloured leaflets as soft as a piece of linen and which
always point towards the sun (change their direction
with the progress of that luminary in heavens) An
Oshadhi plant of the Brahma-Suvarchala' species, is
gold-coloured, abounds in milky juice, resembles a
lotus plant in appearance, grows by the side of water
{i.e., in marshy lands) and spreads in all directions. An
Oshadhi plant of the Mahfii-S'ravani speciesbears flowers
like a Nilotpala and collyrium coloured fruit. The
stem of the Kshupa (bushy) plant measures an Aratni
and the leaf two fingers in length. It is gold-coloured
and abounds in milky juice. An Oshadhi plant of the
S'ravani species, possesses all the preceding features,
(of the Maha-s'rdvani) but is tinged with a yellow
colour. The Oshadhi known as the Golomi and the
Ajalomi are hairy and bulbous (in their origin). A
Vegavati Oshadhi plant puts forth leaves from its roots ;
its leaves are severed like those of a Hamsapddi creeper,
and move about violently (even in the absence of any
wind\ or it resembles a Samkha-pushpi creeper in all its
features, looks like the cast-off skin of a snake and grows
at the end of the rainy season {i.e., in autumn). 9.
Mode of culling the above drugs :—
The first seven of the all -healing Oshadi plants enumerat-
ed above should be culled by reciting the following
Mantra : —"We appease thee with the holy energy and
dignity of Mahendra, Rdma, Krishna and of the Brdhma-
nas and of cows. Exert your beneficial virtues for the
good of mankind". The intelligent one should consecrate
all these Oshadhis with this Mantra. The lazy, the
impious, the ungrateful and the unbelieving invariably
fail to see and secure the Soma plants, or the drugs
possessed of similar virtues. The gods after having