189 
1891.] D. Hoernle— An instalment of Bower the Manuscript. 
Tagara ( Tabernaemontana coronaria ), and Tila (sesamum) seeds ; (90\ (V) 
Tvak-patra(bark and leaves of cinnamon ),Kushtha ( Saussurea auriculata), 
Agnrn (aloe), and Jhaniaka 63 , Mamsi ( Nardostachys Jatamamsi ), Harenu 
(Piper aurantiacum ) and Paripelava 70 ; (VI) Yasbtihva (liquorice), Rodbra 
(Symplocos racemosa ), Agurn (aloe) and Ckandana (sandal), Punarnava 
(Boerhaavia diffusa ), black Tila (sesamum) seeds and Lata 50 : (91.) the 
six face-plasters, severally described in the foregoing balf-verses as 
beneficial to the eyes of the people, should be applied in the summer and 
the other seasons, according as they remove in them the defects of the 
humours. Now listen to me as I explain this. 
(Verse 92.) In the rainy season they are said to cure diseases due 
to derangement of the wind; in the autumn they are held to cure diseases 
due to derangement of the bile ; in the summer they are held to cure 
diseases due to derangement of the blood; in the spring they are said 
to cure diseases due to derangement of the phlegm. 7L 
(Verses 93—94.) Roots of Karpasa (cotton-plant), Alata, Usira 
( Andropogon muricatus ), Kaliyaka (yellow sandal), and the bark of plants 
with a milky sap, Bhadrasri (white sandal), ., Yava (barley¬ 
corns) : these are said to make plasters for the face beneficial to the 
complexion. (94.) These should be dried and then mixed with the urine 
of a cow, or with Kola (jujube), tamarind and mine, or they may be 
dried and mixed with the juice of Matulunga (citron) and mustard, 
(and thus applied to the face). 72 
Fifth Leaf: Obverse. 
(Verse 95.) . if the blood becomes painful or vitiated 
or emitted, face-plasters should be applied, at the same time that some 
Dallana Mishra’s commentary explains it by GhundraTca, and Dr. Dutt translates it 
(p. 164) by “ a sort of gall caused by an insect.” The smaller Petersburg Dictionary, 
however, makes it to be “a kind of aromatic plant.” Its identity would seem to be 
now unknown. 
70 I cannot identify this. The smaller Petersburg Dictionary says it is some 
plant allied to the Cyperus rotundus, which is the Musta. 
71 With this compare Susruta’s statements in Sutrasthana, chapt. 6 (p. 20, transl., 
p. 27). There six seasons are mentioned, each consisting of two months. The six 
seasons form three sets: 1, late rains and autumn, 2, winter and spring, 3 summer 
and early rains. Diseases due to bile arise and come to a head in the late rains and 
autumn, and are relieved in the winter (in our MS., in the autumn) ; diseases due to 
phlegm arise and come to a head in the winter and spring, and are relieved in the 
summer (in our MS. in spring) ; diseases due to wind arise and come to a head in the 
summer and early rains, and are relieved in the late rains (in our MS. in the rainy 
season). Disease due to deranged blood are not referred to at all in the Susruta. 
72 I do not quite understand this formula: Alata I cannot identify; nor do 1 
know whether dmbla ‘ tamarind or ambla ‘ sorrel or amla 1 vinegar ’ is intended. 
