Ashtangasamgraha 26.12

26.12

atha jentākaṃ cikīrṣurbhūmiṃ parīkṣeta |

pūrvasyāmuttarasyāṃ vā diśi guṇavati praśastabhūmibhāge |

deśe kṛṣṇamṛttike vā |

suvarṇavarṇamṛttike parighāpuṣkariṇyādīnāṃ jalāśayānāmanyatamasya kūle |

dakṣiṇe paścime vā sutīrthe samasuvibhaktabhūmibhāge |

saptāṣṭau vāratnīrapakramyodakāt prāṅmukhamudaṅmukhaṃ vābhimukhatīrthaṃ kūṭāgāraṃ kārayet |

utsedhavistārataḥ paramaratnayaḥ ṣoḍaśa |

samantātsuvṛttaṃ mṛtkarmasaṃpannamanekavātāyanam |

asya ca kūṭāgārasyāntaḥ samantato bhittimaratnivistārocchrāyāṃ piṇḍikāṃ kārayedākavāṭāt |

madhye cāsya kūṭāgārasya kiṣkumuktaṃ dvipuruṣapramāṇaṃ mṛnmayaṃ kandusaṃsthānaṃbahusūkṣmacchidramaṅgārakoṣṭhakastambhaṃ sāpidhānaṃ kārayet |

taṃ ca khādirāṇāmaśvakarṇānāṃ vā kāṣṭhānāṃ pūrayitvā dīpayet |

sa yadā jānīyātsādhudagdhāni kāṣṭhāni vigatadhūmānyavataptaṃ sarvamagninā tadagnigṛhaṃ svedayogyena coṣmaṇā yuktamiti |

tatrainaṃ vātaharābhyaṅgābhyaktagātraṃ vastrāvacchannaṃ praveśayet |

anuśiṣyātsaumya praviśa kalyāṇāyārogyāya ca |

praviśya caināṃ piṇḍikāmāruhya ṣārśvāparapārśvābhyāṃ yathāsukhaṃ śayīthāḥ |

na ca tvarayāsvedamūrchāparītenāpi piṇḍikaiṣā vimoktavyāprāṇocchvāsāt |

bhraśyamāno hyataḥ piṇḍikāvakāśād dvāramanadhigacchan svedamūrcchā parītatayā sadyaḥ prāṇān jahyāḥ |

tasmāt piṇḍikāmenāṃ na kathañcana muñcethāḥ |

tvaṃ yadā jānīyā vigatābhiṣyandamātmānaṃ samyak prasrutasvedapicchaṃ sarvasroto vimuktaṃ laghubhūtamapagatavibandhastambhasuptivedanāga ravamiti |

tataḥ piṇḍikānusāreṇa dvāraṃ prapadyethāḥ |

niṣkramya ca cakṣuṣoḥ paripālanārthamatisvinno 'pi na sahasā śītodakamanupraviśethāḥ |

samyak svinnastvapagatasantāpaklamo muhūrtāt sukhoṣṇena vāriṇā yathānyāyaṃ pariṣikto 'śnīyāditi jentākasvedaḥ ||

pippalīsaindhavatutthalodhrapataṅgasrotojamustātriphalāḥ pratisāraṇam |

niyataṃ ca snaihikadhūmapāyī snigdhamadhurāhāro visrāvaṇaparaḥ syāt |

candanapadmakamadhukavidārīkaśerukanīlotpalamṛdvīkājīvakarṣabhakaśarkarāṇāṃ pratyekaṃ palena kṣīreṇa ca māṃsarasadviguṇena tailaprasthaṃ vipācayet |

etannasyagaṇḍūṣaprayogāt paraṃ daśananayanaśravaṇabalakaram ||

Now, one wishing to perform a jentāka sudation should examine the ground:
in an eastern or northern direction, on an auspicious plot of land endowed with good qualities,
or in an area of black soil,
or in [an area of] golden-colored soil, on the bank of any body of water such as a ditch, pond, and the like,
on the southern or western [bank], at an auspicious bathing place, on an even and well-proportioned plot of land;
stepping back seven or eight cubits from the water, one should construct a domed building facing east or facing north, oriented towards the water,
at the most sixteen cubits in height and breadth,
completely circular all around, finished with mud plaster, with numerous windows.
And inside this domed building, one should construct all around the wall, right up to the door, a circular platform one cubit in width and height.
And in the middle of this domed building, leaving a forearm’s length [free], one should construct a clay stove-pillar two men tall, shaped like a baking-pan, with many tiny perforations, and equipped with a lid.
And filling it with wood of khadira or aśvakarṇa, one should kindle [the fire].
When one knows that the wood is thoroughly burned, free from smoke, that the entire fire-house is heated through by the fire, and endowed with heat suitable for sudation—
then one should lead into it the patient, whose body has been anointed with a vāta-pacifying oil and covered with a cloth.
One should instruct him: "O gentle one, enter for your welfare and health.
And having entered, having climbed onto this platform, you should lie comfortably on one flank or the other.
And even when seized with sweating and fainting, you must not leave this platform in a hurry before your breath [returns].
For slipping down from this space on the platform and failing to find the door, overcome by sweating and fainting, you would immediately lose your life.
Therefore, on no account should you leave this platform.
When you know yourself to be free of congestion, your sweat and slime thoroughly flowed out, all your bodily channels cleared, your body made light, and obstruction, stiffness, numbness, pain, and heaviness gone—
then you should make your way to the door by following along the platform.
And having come out, even though excessively sweated, you should not suddenly plunge into cold water, in order to protect your eyes.
When thoroughly sweated, his heat and exhaustion having subsided after a muhūrta, sprinkled properly with comfortably warm water, he should eat." Thus ends jentāka-sveda.
Rubbing [the gums] is done with pippalī, rock salt, tuttha, lodhra, pataṅga, srotaja, mustā, and triphalā.
And he should constantly inhale unctuous smoke, partake of an unctuous and sweet diet, and be dedicated to bloodletting.
One should boil a prastha of oil with one pala each of candana, padmaka, madhuka, vidārī, kaśeruka, blue water lily, raisins, jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, and sugar, along with milk and twice the amount of meat broth.
Applied as a nasal drop and gargle, this is exceedingly strengthening to the teeth, eyes, and hearing.