185 
1891.] Dr. Hoernle— An instalment of the Bower Manuscript. 
two or three of these drugs should he boiled in the milk of goats or 
cows or sheep mixed with water, and then, with the addition of a little 
rocksalt, the mixture may, in a tepid state, be applied as a lotion in eye 
diseases caused by the windy humour. 48 
(Verses 70—72.) Darvi (Indian barberry), Utpala (blue lotus), 
Padmaka, Tunga, Yasha, Meda, Mrinala (leaf-stalk of the lotus) 49 , Ma- 
dhuka (liquorice), Samanga (Mimosa pudica); Kaliyaka (yellow sandal), 
Parpataka (Oldenlandia herbacea ) and Lata 50 , also Draksha (raisins), 
Kashmarya (Gmelina arboiea ) and Parushaka ( Grewia asiatica ) ; (71) 
roots of Gundra ( Panicum uliginosum) , of Nada (Phragmites harha) and 
of Vetasa (Calamus rotang ), and calyxes of flowering grasses 51 ; Pra- 
ginger, garlic, long pepper, etc. I do not know which of them may be intended 
here. 
48 In this formula there is a curious mixture of nominative and accusative 
cases. If the words from Guddchi down to Tvacham be read as forming one compound, 
all the names may be taken as accusatives, except Tilas-cha, Jivanti, Eld and Jivakas- 
cha. The form Kulatthdn, which is undoubtedly an accusative plural, would show that 
the whole series is intended to be in the accusative case, with which is to be under¬ 
stood some verb like dadydt or kalpaySt, “he should take”. Tilas-cha is a nominative 
plural, but might be easily turned into an accusative, by reading Tildm ( Tilan) — 
s = cha, the omission of the anusvara being a clerical error. But the difficulty cannot 
be got over in a similar way in the case of Jivanti, Eld and Jivakas-cha. It is more 
probable, therefore, that the whole series is intended for nominatives. 
4,9 Mrindla is the leaf-stalk of the true lotus, Nelumbium speciosum.— Tunga is 
the name of several things, but is probably here the stamens of the flower of the 
true lotus, otherwise called P adma-kesara or Nalina-kesara, (Susruta I, 38, lists 20, 
22).— Fadmalca is said to be “ a sort of fragrant wood brought from Malva or Southern 
India” (Dr. Dutt’s Mat. Med , p. 312); it is mentioned in lists 17, 19, 25 of Susruta 
I, 38, where the commentary of Dallana Mishra identifies it with padma-kdshtha; 
but it appears to be a drug of uncertain identity, and looking to the connection in 
which the name appears (among other terms referring to the lotus) and to the form 
of the word itself, it may be suggested that padmaka refers to some part of a padma 
or lotus. The root of the Nymphaea odorata or sweet-smelling waterlily is used to 
prepare “ a kind of liniment of a cooling and fragrant nature by which the Native 
Indians sometimes anoint themselves ” (W. Ainslie’s Materia Medica of Hindoostan, 
p. 118).— Utpala is the same as Nilotpala or the blue lotus, Nymphaea stellata, a 
waterlily, but not the true lotus which is the Nelumbium speciosum.—The identity 
of Aldda is no more known; it occurs in the 17th list of Susruta I, 38; it is said to 
be one of the eight drugs constituting the ashta-varga, see note 45.— Ydshu I cannot 
find anywhere mentioned; perhaps it is the same as ydsd or yavdsd , genex’ally masc. 
ydsa or yavdsa , Alhagi Maurorum. 
50 I cannot identify this Lata ; it is the name of various plants. 
51 Perhaps the “ grasses ” here referred to are those constituting the trina - 
sanjUaka or ‘group of five grasses 1 (Susruta I, 38 ; transl., p. 174). They consist of 
the Kusa (Poa cynosuroides), Kdsa ( Saccharum spontaneum), Sara (Saccliarum sara), 
Durbha (Imperata cylindrica) and Kandekshu (Saccharum officinarum). They are 
Y 
