The Compendium of Caraka 1.15.7

1.15.7

tataḥ śīlaśaucācārānurāgadākṣyaprādakṣiṇyopapannānupacārakuśalān sarvakarmasu paryavadātān sūpaudanapācakasnāpakasaṃvāhakotthāpakasaṃveśakauṣadhāpeṣakāṃśca paricārakān sarvakarmasvapratikūlān tathā gītavāditrollāpakaślokagāthākhyāyiketihāsapurāṇakuśalānabhiprāyajñānanumatāṃśca deśakālavidaḥ pāriṣadyāṃśca tathā lāvakapiñjalaśaśahariṇaiṇakālapucchakamṛgamātṛkorabhrān gāṃ dogdhrīṃ śīlavatīmanāturāṃ jīvadvatsāṃ suprativihitatṛṇaśaraṇapānīyāṃ, pātryācamanīyodakoṣṭhamaṇikaghaṭapiṭharaparyogakumbhīkumbhakuṇḍaśarāvadarvīkaṭodañcanaparipacanamanthānacarmacelasūtrakārpāsorṇādīni ca śayanāsanādīni copanyastabhṛṅgārapratigrāaṇi suprayuktāstaraṇottarapracchadopadhānāni sopāśrayāṇi saṃveśanopaveśanasnehasvedābhyaṅgapradehapariṣekānulepanavamanavirecanāsthāpanānuvāsanaśirovirecanamūtroccārakarmaṇāmupacārasukhāni suprakṣālitopadhānāśca suślakṣṇasvaramadhyamā dṛṣadaḥ, śastrāṇi copakaraṇārthāni dhūmanetraṃ ca bastinetraṃ cottarabastikaṃca kuśahastakaṃ ca tulāṃ ca mānabhāṇḍaṃ ca ghṛtatailavasāmajjakṣaudraphāṇitalavaṇendhanodakamadhusīdhusurāsauvīrakatuṣodakamaireyamedakadadhidadhimaṇḍodasviddhānyāmlamūtrāṇi ca tathā śāliṣaṣṭikamudgamāṣayavatilakulatthabadaramṛdvīkākāśmaryaparūṣakābhayāmalakabibhītakāni nānāvidhāni ca snehasvedopakaraṇāni dravyāṇi tathaivordhvaharānulomikobhayabhāñji saṃgrahanīyadīpanīyapācanīyopaśamanīyavātaharādisamākhyātāni cauṣadhāni; yaccānyadapi kiñcidvyāpadaḥ parisaṃkhyāya pratīkārārthamupakaraṇaṃ vidyāt yaccā pratibhogārthaṃ tattadupakalpayet //

Then, attendants endowed with good character, cleanliness, conduct, affection, skill, and dexterity, skilled in nursing, thoroughly accomplished in all actions, cooks of soup and boiled rice, bathers, massagers, lifters, bed-layers, and medicine-grinders, unhindered in all actions; likewise companions skilled in vocal music, instrumental music, pleasant conversation, verses, songs, tales, historical narratives, and ancient lore, perceptive of intentions, agreeable, and knowing the place and time; likewise quail, francolin, hare, blackbuck, spotted deer, black-tailed deer, barking deer, and sheep; a milch cow that is well-behaved, free from disease, with a living calf, and provided with well-arranged grass, shelter, and water; and bowls, rinsing vessels, water tubs, small water jars, pots, kettles, wide-mouthed pots, small earthen jars, large jars, basins, saucers, ladles, mats, bailers, cooking pots, churns, skins, cloth, thread, cotton, wool, and the like; and beds, seats, and the like, supplied with spittoons and bedpans, equipped with well-laid spreads, upper sheets, and pillows, with bolsters, comfortable for the service of lying down, sitting, oleation, sudation, anointing, thick poultice, affusion, inunction, emesis, purgation, non-unctuous enema, unctuous enema, head-purgation, and urine and stool evacuation; and well-washed grindstones with very smooth upper stones of medium size; and surgical instruments for equipment; and a smoking tube, an enema nozzle, a urethral catheter, a kusha-grass brush, a balance, and measuring vessels; and ghee, oil, muscle fat, marrow, honey, treacle, salt, fuel, water, madhu wine, sīdhu wine, surā liquor, sauvīraka, tuṣodaka, maireya, medaka, curd, curd-whey, buttermilk, sour gruel, and urines; and likewise śāli rice, ṣaṣṭika rice, mung bean, black gram, barley, sesame, horse gram, jujube, raisins, kāśmarya, parūṣaka, harītakī, āmalakī, bibhītaka, and various substances serving as equipment for oleation and sudation; and likewise the medicines known as upward-cleansing, downward-cleansing, operating both ways, astringent, appetising, digestive, pacifying, and vāta-alleviating; and whatever other equipment one may know to be for counteracting complications after calculating them, and whatever is for [regular] use—all that one should arrange.