CHAPTER XXIX.
Now we shall discourse on the chapter which deals with the Therapeutics of an attack by Skandápasmára (Skandápasmara-Pratishedha). 1.
A decoction of Vilva, S'irisha, Golomi (Durálabhá), and the drugs of the Surasádigroup should be employed in sprinkling the body of the possessed child in a case of the present disease. Medicated oil duly cooked with the drugs of the Sarvagandhá group should be used in anointing its body. Clarified butter duly cooked with milk and the decoction of the barks of the Kshiri trees together with the drugs of the Kâkolyádi group as Kalka*[1] should be prescribed for internal use. 2A.
The body of the affected child should be rubbed (Utsádana) with the paste of Vachá and Hingu taken together. The dungs of an owl and a vulture, human hairs, the nails of an elephant, clarified butter, and the hairs of a bull should be mixed together and used for fumigating the child's body. Anantá, Vimbi, Markati, and Kukkuti should be strung together and fastened (as a charm) to the body of the child. 2B.
The physician (or the votary officiating for him) should worship the presiding deity of the disease in a ditch (dug out for the purpose) with the offerings of both cooked and uncooked meat, fresh blood (of a goat milk, and edibles prepared with the Másha pulse for the ghosts, and the possessed child should be bathed at the crossing of roads by physician observing the
- ↑ * Although Dallana prescribes the drugs of the Kákolyádi group to be used as Kalka, we are inclined to take the sentence to mean that the decoction of those drugs should be used.
