Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

Cliap. II.] MDAXA STHAXAM. 23
upward course, and finding a lodgment in the ears, nose,
mouth and eyes may produce similar warts in those
localities. Warts, which crop up inside the cavities of
the ears, may bring on earache, dumbness, and afoul dis-
charge from those organs, while those (c}-sts) cropping up
in the eyes will obstruct the movement of the e}'e-lids,
giving rise to pain and a local secretion and ultimateh'
destroy the eye-sight. Similarh", such growths in the
nostrils produce catarrh, excessive sneezing, shortness
of breath, headache, nasal speech and the complaint
known as rutinas)-a. Such vegetations cropping up in
and about the lips, palate or the lar\nx,tcnd to make the
speech confused and indistinct. When appearing in the
mouth, they impair the faculty of taste, and diseases
which affect the cavit\' of the mouth follow. The excited
V\-ana Va}-u, united with the aggravated Kapham,
produces a kind of hard papillomatous growths on the
skin (about the anus) which are called the Charmakilas
( papillomata).* i 5.
Authoritative verses on the subject
— These Charmakilas may be attended with a kind of
pricking pain through an excess of the deranged Vayu,
whereas those which have their origin in the deranged
Kapham (lymphatics) assume a knott}' shape and become
of the same colour as the surrounding skin. On
the other hand, they become dr}', black or white, and
extremely hard through an exuberance of the deranged
local blood and Pittam. 16.
The symptoms of polypi, appearing in the neighbour-
hood of the anus, have been described in full, while the
general characteristics of those, which are found to
crop up around the genitals, have been briefly discoursed
* Accordini; to others, Charmakilas may crop up on the skin of any
part of the b dy.