194 Dr. Hoernle— An instalment of the Bower Manuscript. [No. 3, 
(Verse 124.) A powder made of long pepper, M&ruta, Ajaji (Nigella 
sativa ), Shadi (Curcuma zedoaria), Pushkara and Chitraka (Plumbago 
zeylanica), and mixed with rocksalt, is beneficial to sufferers from cough 
due to derangement of the wind. 87 
(Verses 125—127.) One should boil thirty pala 17 of Kantakari ( Sola - 
num jacquinii) in one adhaka of water, till it has been reduced to one- 
fourth of its quantity; and when it has clarified, one should add an equal 
number of palas of treacle in a water jar: (126.) then with powders of 
Nagara (dry ginger), Bhargi (Rhus succedanea), cardamoms, long pepper, 
Shadi (Curcuma zedoaria,) and Chitraka (plumbago), and with four palas 
of clarified butter and sweet oil, one should boil it, (127.) till it attains 
to the consistency of an electuary, and when it has become cold, one 
should add two palas of honey and one pala of powdered long pepper, 
and then lick it as a remedy against cough. 88 
(Verse 128.) One should boil a paste of Bhargi (Rhus succedanea) 
and clarified butter with an infusion of the Dasamula (or Ten-drugs) [in 
the broth of a cock or a partridge]. This is an excellent remedy against 
cough due to derangement of the wind. 89 
sati srihgi pippali vishvabheshajaih. Somewhat similar formulas are those of the 
Vangasena, p. 260, No. 13 and p. 261, No. 15, and those of the Charaka on p. 733 
(bottom), commencing with durddabhdin and duhsparsdm. In fact Vangasena No. 15 
is identical with the Charaka’s durdlabhdm, etc—The drug, called shadi in our MS., 
appears to be the same as what is usually called sati. 
87 This formula I have not been able to trace anywhere else. Two of its in¬ 
gredients I cannot identify. Mdruta would seem to be the same as Katphala (see 
Watt’s Economic Prod , pt. v, p. 188), the S. Indian name of which is Marutamtoli or 
Marudampatai. Pushkara appears to be unknown at the present day. See Dr. Dutt’s 
Hindu Mat. Med , p. 314, who says : “ this root is not available; the root of Aplotavis 
auriculata ( Kushtha ) is substituted for it. See, however, Watt’s Econ. Prod., pt. v, 
p. 232, Saussurea Lappa. Ajaji is the same as Tcdldjdji or Itrishna-jiraka. 
83 With this formula may be compared a somewhat similar, though much 
shorter one, in the Charaka, p. 732, which is quoted in the Chakradatta, p. 219, 
No. 77. It runs as follows : kantakdri-guduchibhydm prithak triinsat=palud-~ras§ I 
prasthah siddho cjhritad^vdta-kdsa-nud-vahni-dipanali. 
89 This formula is found, verbally the same, in the Vangasena, p. 261, verse 16, 
where it is called the “ dasa-mUl-ddyain ghritam.” It is also quoted in the Chakra¬ 
datta, p. 216, No. 70. The only difference is, that these two works read dasainiili- 
kashaySna . According to the Charaka, p. 20, there are five kinds of kashdya or 
‘ extracts ’: 1, the svarasa or the ‘ simple juice’ squeezed out of some substance ; 2, 
kalka or a ‘ paste’ made of a pounded substance and its juice ; 3, srita or the ‘ decoc¬ 
tion’ of a substance ; 4, sita or a c cold infusion ’, obtained by allowing a substance to 
soak for a night ; 5 , phanta or ‘hot infusion’, obtained by throwing a substance into 
hot water and squeezing it. See also Dutt’s Mat. Med., pp. 9, 10. From the wording 
of the formula it is not clear which kind of kashdya is here intended ; but the com¬ 
mentary in the Chakradatta interprets it as being the srita or kvdtha , i. e. } a decoc¬ 
tion over fire. 
