1891.] Dr. Hoernle— An instalment of the Bower Manuscript. 183 
(Verse 59.) With Dadima (pomegranate) and Tvacha (cinnamon) 
one should boil one and a half portion of pungent (Indian mustard) 
oil 59 : this causes the growth of the ears, and of the female and male 
genital organs. 
(Verses 60—66.) One should boil half a pala of the root of 
Chitraka ( Plumbago zeylanica ), likewise of Trivrit ( Ipomoea turpetlium ) 
and Satala ( Stereospermum suavolens) ; (60) and one karsha 17 each of the 
roots of Danti ( Baliospermum montanum) and ., and likewise of 
long pepper, rocksalt, asafoetida and sorrel, (61) and fore-most twenty 
(karsha ?) of chebulic myrobalan . 
Fourth Leaf : Obverse : 
From these one should carefully prepare ten boluses with eight 
pala 17 of treacle, (62.) and take one of them on every tenth day. After 
it one should drink warm water for the purpose of correcting the defects 
of the humours ; (63.) then, after the purgative has taken effect, one 
should bathe and may then return to one’s ordinary diet. 40 There 
39 I. e , oil of the Brassica juncea or Sinapis ramosa, largely used by Indians as 
an article of food as well as an unguent, and known as kaduvd or karuvd tdl 1 pungent 
oil’, as distinguished from mithd tdl, the sweet oil of the Sesamum indicum. 
40 Compare with this the formula in Susruta I, 44 (p. 166). There are fewer 
ingredients and the proportions are different, but the chief ingredients are the same; 
they are also to be made up in boluses of 8 pala of treacle and one bolus to be taken 
every tenth day, with warm water after it. It seems also to be the same with the 
guddshtaka or “ eight treacle” formula of the Bhavaprakasa, quoted in Dr. Dutt’s 
Mat. Med., p. 231. The quantity of treacle is to be equal in weight to the other 
ingredients. This agrees with the formula in our MS., according to which there 
are £ pala each of Chitraka, Trivrit and Satala (= 1§ pala), one karsha or I pala 
each of the other 6 ingredients ( = 1| pala), and 20 karsha or 5 pala of Myrobalan, 
total 8 pala, equal to the 8 pala of treacle. The Susruta formula, I suspect, is 
wrongly translated by Dr. Chatterjea (p. 211). It runs as follows: gudasy=dshta- 
pale path/yd vimsatih syuh palam palam I danti-chitrdkaydh karshau pippali-trivritor= 
darn II 1critv=aitdn=m6dakdn=ikam dasamd ’hani | tatah khddid-ushna-tdya-sdvi 
niryantrands=tv=imd. This would seem to mean : “In 8 pala of treacle there 
should be (mixed), pala for pala, 20 karsha of Pathya, two karsha (i. e. one karsha 
each) of Danti and Chitraka and ten karsha (i. e. 5 karsha each) of Pippali and 
Trivrit. Of this mixture make boluses and take one every tenth day, with warm 
water after it. This is an unlimited remedy.” Here the ingredients consist of 
20 + 2 4-10 karsha, i. e., 5 + ^ + 2^- pala, total 8 pala, equal to 8 pala of treacle.—I 
take Satalu to be the Stereospermum suavolens; it is mentioned as a purgative in the 
second list given in Susruta I, 39, where Dr. Dutt translates it (p. 176) with Jasmi- 
num sambac. In the third list (p. 177), also of purgatives, however, he translates it 
with Stereospermum suavolens , and as a synonym of Patal4 which also occurs in the 
second list. I may add that in his Mat. Med. (p. 190) the Jasminum sambac is not 
described as a purgative drug. 
