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there is here no fixed measure; let him drink in proportion to the 
strength of his humours and to his disease. 18 (22.) While it is clarify¬ 
ing, he should slowly blow on it soft currents of air with fans made 
of palm leaves ; and when it boils up or is being spoiled, 19 he should 
sprinkle it with cold water mixed with powder of sandal. (23.) Of 
this decoction, fortified by one third part of spirit of rice, he should sip 
a mouthful, 20 and first stopping a moment to let it play in the throat, 
lie should drink it together with the rest. (24.) When this is digested, 
he may eat milk with rice ; or milk may be taken with the addition of 
the broth of game or with dainty decoctions of pulses or with oleaginous 
substances 21 ; hut he should take these moderately and only once a day. 
(25.) He may drink mardvika, or madhu, or madira and madhu in 
equal parts, or arishta, or sidhu, or jagala, or agaja, or maireya, 22 or 
whatever other strong liquor there may be ; but he should drink these 
with water, or one at a time, lest there be intoxication. (26.) If he is 
not used to drinking liquors, he may drink warm water or sour kanchika ; 
or he may drink tusliodaka or suviraja, 23 or fresh whey. (27.) He 
should never take it with treacle, nor should he ever drink unboiled 
water, while using this prescription; otherwise he will always be in 
danger of indigestion, nor will he he able to eat properly for a few years. 
(Yerses 28 and 29.) Now the second formula: Having crushed 
small fresh bulbs of garlic , and, together with an equal quantity of 
clarified butter, stirred them well with a churning-stick in a vessel used 
for clarified butter, one may, after having let the mixture stand for ten 
days or longer, eat it together with an equal quantity of bel-fruit ( Aegle 
18 It might also be translated : ‘ in proportion to the state of his humours, his 
vital power and his disease.’ 
19 Original murchchh&^pi vato pi yadi; I do not know the exact meaning of 
vata. 
go Original gandusha, a term used with gargles; see Dr. Dutt’s Mat. Med., 
p. 18. 
21 Sneha, * oleaginous substance ’ is said to include the following: taila or oil, 
ghrita or clarified butter, vasa or fat, and majjd or marrow. 
22 Regarding the identity of these liquors see Dr. Dutt’s Hindu Mat. Med., pp. 
13, 266, 272, 273, also Susruta I, 45 (transl., pp 239—243). The only variety that 
I cannot identify is agaja. In the dictionaries it is said to be ‘ bitumen.’ 
23 The suviraja of the text is probably the same as what is called sauviraka in 
Susruta I, 45. All three drinks are kinds of sour gruel, produced by the acetuous 
fermentation of a decoction of different sorts of unhusked grain : tushodaka or tushdmbu 
is made with the husks of a kind of pulse, suviraja or sauviraka, with unhusked 
barley, and kanchika or kdnjika or dhdnydmla with unhusked rice. On their pre¬ 
paration see Susruta I, 44 (transl., pp. 209, 210, 246); also Dutt’s Mat. Med , p. 12. 
