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of a disease with regard to its being due to a particular assignable cause 
or its having arisen from the general condition of things 53 , (78a) an in¬ 
telligent physician should determine his line of treatment. 
(Verse 78b —79a.) The tender 59 roots of Eranda (castor-oil plant) 
with its fruit and sprouts, added to the milk of goats, is an excellent lotion 
which cures any disease caused by vitiated wind and blood : so good phy¬ 
sicians declare. 
(Verse 796—80a.) Prapaundarika (root-stock of the lotus), Madhuka 
(liquorice), Haridra (turmeric) ., mixed with sugar, make 
a lotion which stops any disease due to vitiated bile and wind. 
(Verse 806—81a.) Hata 60 , S'vadamstra 55 , Vrihati ( Solanum indi- 
cum ), Tvacha (cinnamon) and Hrivera (Pavonia odorata): these, boiled 
in goat’s milk and water, and mixed with rocksalt, make a lotion which 
cures any disease due to vitiated wind and phlegm. 
(Verse 816—82a.) .Darvi (Indian barberry) and best Madhuka 
(liquorice), boiled in the milk of a cow or a woman, and mixed with 
sugar, may be applied by a good physician as a lotion in any disease due 
to wind, blood and bile. 
(Verse 826—83a.) The three myrobalans 30 , finely pulverised and 
tied up in a piece of white linen and soaked in milk of a goat or a woman 
or in water, are a remedy in diseases caused by all the humours together. 
(Verse 836—84a.) Darvi (Indian barberry), Haridra (turmeric), 
the three myrobalans 80 , Musta ( Gyperus rotundus ), mixed with sugar and 
58 I have noticed the term samsarga-ja in Susruta I, 24 (transl., p. Ill), where it 
forms, together with dkasmika, the two divisions of the diseases due to daiva-bala or 
preternatural causes. As the commentary explains, these diseases may be due either 
to an offence against a god or to the curse of a saint or such like, i. e. } to some 
distinct, assignable cause, in which case they are called samsarga-ja or ‘ due to con¬ 
catenation ’; or, on the other hand, they may be due to karma, i. e., to some sin 
committed in a pre-existent life, i. e., practically to no known cause, in which case 
they are said to be dkasmika or ‘ accidental.’ I take samsarga-ja to have here this 
technical meaning: ‘ due to an assignable cause’; and in contradistinction, I take 
sarua-samutthita to mean ‘ due to (no particular assignable cause, but) to the general 
condition of things’, to all the surrounding circumstances. I may note, here, that 
the Susruta (I, 24) distinguishes between diseases that are samsarga-ja and those 
that are upasarga-ja. The former are those that are due to some assignable preter¬ 
natural cause ; the latter are those that are due to an assignable natural cause, i. e. } 
they are such diseases as arise in complication with others, e. g ., a disease that arises 
in complication with fever. 
59 Vijarjara is in the smaller Petersburg Dictionary said to mean, “ morsch ”, 
“ miirbe ” (rotten, decaying.); but it is rather the opposite of jar jar a, ‘ old ’, ‘ decayed *, 
and therefore means ‘ young ’ or ‘ tender.’ 
69 This is said to be the same as Tagara (Tabernaemontana coronaria). 
