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xxvii. 46 ; Susruta, sutrasthana, Adh xlvi). According to Susruta, the flesh of peacock 

 should always be taken (Kalpasthana, i). Its medicinal properties are thus described : — 



Mayiirah svara-mcdh-dgni-drk-'srotr-endriya-ddrdhya-krt. 

 Snigdh-osno-nilahd vrisyah sveda-svara-val-dvahah. — (Sus. Sutra. ,xlvi.) 



Trans/. — (The flesh of) a peacock strengthens voice, mental vigour, appetite, and 

 the organs of hearing and seeing ; (it is) oily, hot, remover of winds, productive of 

 sexual vigour, and an increaser of perspiration, voice, and strength. 



According to Caraka, sutra. xxvii. 62 : — 



Darsana-h'otra-medh-dgni-vayo-varn-svar-dyiisam. 

 Bar/if hitatamo balyo vdtaghno mdmsa-'sukralah. 



Transl. — The (flesh of) peacock is most beneficial for the sight, the hearing, the 

 mental power, the appetite, the age, the colour, the voice and the life ; is strengthener, 

 allays winds, and produces flesh and semen. 



The eggs of peacocks are good in (the disease of) scanty semen, in .coughs, heart- 

 diseases and ulcers, are sweet, heavy to digest {avapdki) and quick-strengthener 

 (Caraka. Sutra , xxvii. 81-2). 



The flesh of peacock should not be burnt in the lire of eranda (castor) fuel or taken 

 with castor oil (Caraka, Sut. xxvi. 120). The flesh is an ingredient of the v/sya-rasa, 

 an aphrodisiac (Car. Cikit. ii. 42-3) ; and is prescribed as diet in fever (ib. iii. 188), in 

 rakta-pitta or bile-blood (ib. iv. 48), in consumption (ib. viii. 154), in piles (ib. ix. 207), in 

 the aftereffects of intoxication, mad-dtyaya (ib. xii. 121), in jaundice (ib. xx. 124), in 

 hiccup (ib. xxi. 90), in vomit (ib. xxiii. 21), and in head-disease (ib. xxvi. 146); is to 

 be applied to the head when there bitten by a snake (ib. xxv. 180), and forms an 

 ingredient of medicines for injection (Car. Siddhi., xii. 39, 41). Susruta advises that 

 in the peacock- flesh should be given sugar, ativisa (mod. dtaicd) and mahausadha (mod. 

 sunthi) (Kalpa. i.) ; and he prescribes peacock flesh-soup with light foods (Cikitsita. xxxix.), 

 and in fever (Uttara-tantra, xxxix). The peacock-egg is an ingredient of an aphrodisiac 

 (Caraka, Cikits. ii. 147), and of an injection (Car. Sid. xii. 38, 64) ; the semen is used 

 in an aphrodisiac (Car. Cikits. ii. 59), the liver in poisoning (ib. xxv. 49); the blood for 

 applying to the head when bitten there by a snake (ib. xxv. 180) ; and the leg in medi- 

 cines for hiccup and asthma (ib. xxi. 114), and for coughs (ib. xxii. 168). Both Caraka 

 and Susruta recommend that the peacock with other birds should be kept near a person 

 poisoned (Car. Cik. xxv. 249 ; Sus. Kalpa. i). 



Deer. (ii) The Deer. 



\_Mago (G. 11, 12), mrugo (D. 3) mrige (M. 5), mige (K. 9, J. 4, Sh. eff.).] 

 Cf. Jatakas miga. 



The Sanskrit virga is found in the earliest vedic literature, Pg-sarh, i. 38. 5, 39. 6, 

 et scq.). The spotted, prsadasva, fern, prsati, was the vdhana or car-drawing animal of 

 the Maruts or storm-gods (Rg-sarh. I. 37. 2, 85. 4, 89. 7 etseq.). From the contents, the 

 virga meant there apparently any four-footed game including lion, wolf, &c. In this sense 



