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THESUSHRUTA SAMIIITA. [Chap. I.
charged with the Kapham, stuffs the sound -carrying
channels (Srota) of the cars. 68.
Kama S'ulam:—The disease in which the
deranged Vayu causing a piercing pain in the regions of
the cheekbones, head, temples and neck, gives rise to a
sort of aching pain in the tympanum, is called Karna-
s'ulam (otitis). The local Vc-'iyu, deranged and saturated
with the Kapham stuffing the nerves (Dhamani) which
conduct of the sound of speech, produces complete (in
some cases partial) loss of the power of speech e }^.
Muka (dumbness , Mimnina (nasal voice) and Gad-g-ada
(indistinct speech). 69—70
A sort of pain, which (rising from the bowels or the
urinary bladder and ranging downward) gives rise to
a bursting sensation in the regions of the anus and the
genitals, is called Tuui, whereas the one, rising upward
from the preceding parts and extending up to the region
of the intestines, is called Prati-tuni. A distension
of the abdomen (Udara), attended with the incarceration
of flatus (Vayu) and an intense pain and rumbling in its
inside, is called Adhmanam (Tympanites). When it first
affects the stomach fAmasaya) and is unattended with an
oppressive feeling about the heart and pain at the sides'"
it is called Pratyadhmauam. The Va>-u saturated with
the deranged Kapham causes the preceding t\-pe of
distemper. 71 — 74.
A knotty stone-like tumour (Granthi) of consider-
able density, whether fixed or mobile, and appearing
below the umbilicus, and having an elevated shape which
is always found to be extended in an upward direction, is
called a Vatasthila, (which) as its name implies, is due
to the action of the local deranged Vayu. The tumour,
thus formed, obstructs the emission of flatus and impedes
the evacuation of faeces. A tumour of similar shape.
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