Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

544 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. XXX.
drunk the celestial ambrosia to their fill cast the residue
to the Somas and kindred plants as well as to the
moon, the lord of the Oshadhis. lo-A.
Their habitats : —The Brahma-suvanhald
species (of the Oshadhis) is found to grow in and about
the waters of the great river Indus and the lake Deva-
sunda. The Adityaparnini species may b? had in
those two regions at the end of winter, and Gonasi and
Aj'agari at the beginning of the rains. The Karenu^thQ
Kanyd, the Chhatrd, the Ati-chchhatrd, the Golomi, the
Aj'a-lomi, and the Mahd-s'rdvani varieties of the Osha-
dhis are found (in spring) in the lake of Kshudraka-
Manasa in Kashmir. The Krishna-sarpdkhyd and the
Gonasi species also are found in that locality during the
spring. The S'veta-kdpoti species is white coloured
and is found to grow on the ant-hills which cover a
space of three Yojanas on the other (viz_, the western)
side of the river Kaus'iki and to the east of the Sanjaya-
nti. The Oshadhi of the Vegavati species grows on
the Malaya hills and on the Nala-setu. lO-B.
Any one of these Oshadhis should be taken after a
fast under the auspices of the full-moon in the month
of Kdrtika. The regimen of diet and conduct is the
same as laid down in connection with Soma-Rasa'yana
and the results have been already described to be the
same, loC.
The common habitats of all the
Oshadhis :— The Soma as well all the other
Oshadhi plants may be had on (the summits of) the
Arvuda mountains whose cloud-rending summits are
the favourite haunts of the gods and which abound in
holy pools and fountains frequented by the gods, the
Siddhas and the holy Rishis, and whose large hollow
caves are reverberated with the thundering roars of