Ashtangasamgraha 34.12

34.12

In inspecting vaginal ulcers, the instrument is sixteen fingers [long], / tubular in the middle, four-walled, having four rods, tied above with a sliding ring, with an orifice like a lotus-bud, and dilating upwards by manipulating the rods at the base. / The two instruments for cleansing and smearing sinus ulcers are six fingers long, shaped like an enema tube, without ears at the mouth, with channels accommodating a thumb at the base and a pea at the mouth. / In abdominal dropsy, one should apply a tube open at both ends, or a quill tube. / In oily enema, urethral or vaginal douche, insufflation, fumigation, urine-enlargement [catheterization], stricture of the prepuce, and so on, instruments have been stated each in their respective places. // Or on a wet limb, or one devoid of bandage, or one struck by a stone.