water and made into a stick (Varti) should be applied as an Anjana to the affected eye. As an alternative, sticks (Varti) composed of Pathyá, Haridrá, Yashti-madhu and Anjana should be similarly applied. Compounds made of the equal parts of Pippali, Maricha, S'unthi, Haritaki, Ámalaki, Vibhitaka, Haridrá and Vidanga-seeds, or of Válaka, Kushtha, Deva-dáru, (burnt) conch-shell, Páthá (Ákanidhi), Anala (Chitraka roots), Pippali, Maricha, S'unthi and Manah-śilá (Realgar) and the flowers of Játi, Karanja and S'obhánjana*[1] pasted together with water should be applied to the eye. The seeds †[2] of Prakiryá (Karanja), or of S'igru with the seeds and flowers of the two kinds of Vrihati mixed with Rasánjana, Chandana, Saindhava-salt, Manah-śilá, Haritaki, and garlic taken in equal parts and pasted together with water should be made into sticks (Varti) and used as an Anjana in all forms of Kaphaja eye-diseases. 5.
The following medicinal compounds should be prescribed by experts as an Anjana (eye-salve) in a case of Valása-Grathita after the system of the patient had been properly cleansed by means of blood-letting. A quantity of blue barley with the horns should be soaked (for a week or two) in milk and dried (after the manner of Bhávaná saturation). It should then be burnt into ashes. These ashes should then be mixed with an equal part of burnt ashes of Arjaka, Áshphotaka, Kapittha, Vilva, Nirgundi and Játi flowers and an alka-
- ↑ * Dallana quotes the reading of "Panjika'ka'ra" (another commentator of Sus'ruta) according to whom Murvá and the flowers of Játi only should be taken instead of the flowers of Jati, Karanja and Śobhánjana. This reading seems to be the correct one inasmuch as this makes the number of the drugs in the list twelve in all, as given by Dallana himself.
- ↑ † According to some commentators both the seeds and flowers of Prakirjá and of Śigru should be taken.
