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[43.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.3) Mātuluṅga, agnimantha, bhadradāru, mahauṣadha, / ahiṃsrā, and rāsnā: a paste \[of these\] removes vāta-oedema. // 3 ### [43.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.4) An oily paste of śākhoṭaka bark ground with kāñjika / destroys blood-induced oedema, just as Garuḍa destroys serpents. // 4 ### [43.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.5) Dūrvā, root of nala, madhuka, and candana, / as well as all cooling groups: a paste \[of these\] removes pitta-oedema. // 5 ### [43.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.6) A paste made with barks of nyagrodha, udumbara, aśvattha, plakṣa, and vetasa, / mixed with clarified butter, is considered an extinguisher of oedema. // 6 ### [43.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.7) In \[oedema\] that is traumatic and born of blood, this very same sequence of treatment \[applies\]. / Ajagandhā, aśvagandhā, kālā together with saralā, // 7 ### [43.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.8) ekeśikā, and ajaśṛṅgī: a paste \[of these\] removes kapha-oedema. / With punarnavā, śigru, dāru, daśamūla, and mahauṣadha, // 8 ### [43.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.9) a lukewarm paste is prescribed for oedema caused by kapha and vāta. / One should not apply a paste at night, nor \[reapply\] what has been applied and fallen off; // 9 ### [43.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.10) nor \[apply\] what is stale, nor retain it while it is drying out; / one should neglect a poultice that is drying out with regard to pressing. // 10 ### [43.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.11) Nor should one plaster over the opening, so that the doṣa drains out. / Hard oedemas of mild pain \[should be treated\] with unctuous substances that remove vāta and kapha: // 11 ### [43.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.12) having anointed them and fomented them with a bamboo pipe, then gently / one should rub them with the palm or the thumb in order to soften them. // 12 ### [43.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.13) A discerning physician should perform blood-letting at the very beginning / when an oedema is large and fixed, and when an ulcer is painful. // 13 ### [43.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.14) Even that oedema which does not subside through pastes, fomentations, affusions, and lightening therapy / quickly reaches destruction through blood-letting. // 14 ### [43.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.15) All treatments on the one side, and blood-letting on the other: / for blood becomes excessively sour; if it is not present, neither is pain. // 15 ### [43.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.16) If an oedema treated in this way does not subside, / incision of it, once ripened by poultices, is said to be beneficial. // 16 ### [43.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.17) A ball of roasted grain flour mixed with oil, clarified butter, or both, / pleasantly warm, is praised as a poultice for ripening an oedema. // 17 ### [43.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.18) A ball of roasted grain flour with sesame, linseed, and sour curd, / with yeast, kuṣṭha, and salt, is praised for poulticing. // 18 ### [43.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.19) For children, the elderly, the intolerant, the emaciated, the timid, and women, / and when a severe, ripened oedema arises over a vital point, / one should plaster ox-tooth rubbed in water to the size of a bindu. // 19 ### [43.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.20) And in an extremely hard oedema, ripening and burst-causing \[is achieved\] / by application of the ashes of sloughed snake-skin mixed with mustard oil. // 20 ### [43.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.21) The accumulation of a cervical gland subsides; its aggravation bursts open swiftly / \[with\] cirabilva, agnika, dantī, citraka, hayamāraka, // 21 ### [43.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.22) and the dung of pigeons, kanka-vultures, and vultures as a tearing agent; / or whichever are caustic substances—or caustic alkali is an excellent tearing agent. // 22 ### [43.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.23) Bark and roots of mucilaginous substances, however, are compressing agents, / as well as flours of barley, wheat, and māṣa, in brief. // 23 ### [43.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.24) Then washing \[is done with\] a decoction made from leaves of paṭolī and nimba / when it is unpurified; and when it is purified, \[with one\] produced from the bark of nyagrodha and others. // 24 ### [43.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.25) The two pañcamūlas \[should be used\] in vāta, the nyagrodhādi \[group\] in paittika \[conditions\], / and the āragvadhādi \[group\] is to be employed in kapha-born \[conditions\] in all operations. // 25 ### [43.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.26) Sesame paste with salt, the two haridrās, trivṛt, clarified butter, / madhuka, and nimba leaves: this paste is a cleanser of ulcers. // 26 ### [43.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.27) Nimba leaf, sesame, dantī, trivṛt, rock salt, and honey: ### [43.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.28) this paste that alleviates corrupted ulcers is the lion of cleansers. // 27 ### [43.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.29) Or śārivā root alone cleanses all ulcers. / Paṭola, sesame, that called yaṣṭī, trivṛt, dantī, that called niśā, // 28 ### [43.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.30) and nimba leaves, applied as a paste with salt, cleanse ulcers. / Triphalā, khadira, dārvī, nyagrodha and others, balā, kuśa, // 29 ### [43.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.31) and leaves of nimba and kolaka: this decoction is beneficial for cleansing. / By this, in those whose putrid flesh does not heal the flesh-site, // 30 ### [43.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.32) a healing paste of sesame combined with madhuka should be made; / but combined with nimba leaves and honey, it is regarded as cleansing. // 31 ### [43.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.33) Combined with the former two or with clarified butter, it also causes healing. / A paste made of nimba leaves and sesame with honey is a wound-cleanser; / combined with clarified butter, it is a healer; this same rule also applies to a barley paste. // 32 ### [43.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.34) A wick combined with nimba leaves, clarified butter, honey, dārvī, and madhuka, / or a paste of sesame seeds, cleanses and heals an ulcer. // 33 ### [43.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.35) A paste of saptadala latex / pacifies a corrupted ulcer by application; / śarapuṅkhā combined with honey / is declared to heal all ulcers. // 34 ### [43.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.36) One should apply a human skull / or that \[human\] bone \[ground\] with urine: / this heals wounds / that are incurable even by a hundred recipes. // 35 ### [43.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.37) One should cleanse narrow-mouthed ulcers situated on vital points and joints with a wick \[made\] / with abhayā, trivṛt, dantī, lāṅgalī, honey, and rock salt. // 36 ### [43.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.38) Suṣavī leaves, pattūra, karṇamoṭa, and kuṭheraka: / these individually, applied as a paste, heal deep ulcers. // 37 ### [43.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.39) Or with powders of the five barks together with pearl-oyster shell powder, / or with dhātakī powder and lodhra, those ulcers likewise heal. // 38 ### [43.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.40) For those ulcers with burning sensation and pain in which vāta is predominant, / sesame seeds roasted and extinguished in milk, // 39 ### [43.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.41) ground with that very milk, the physician should apply as a paste. / Those \[ulcers\] affected by vāta and the like, discharging and severely painful, he should fumigate // 40 ### [43.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.42) with barley, clarified butter, bhūrja, madana, śrīveṣṭaka, and that called surā; / fumigated with śrīvāsa, guggulu, aguru, and resin of śāla, // 41 ### [43.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.43) ulcers attain hardness and severe pains disappear. // 42 ### [43.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.44) Sesame, milk, sugar, honey, oil, madhuka, and candana / extinguish an ulcer's oedema, pain, burning sensation, and blood by \[their\] paste. // 43 ### [43.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.45) The physician should properly apply applications and other measures that pacify pitta-abscess and erysipelas to a wound caused by fire-burn. // 44 ### [43.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.46) An application of the root of mahārāṣṭrī, dusting with burnt and powdered \[material\], / and powder made from the thatch of an old house are considered beneficial for a burn wound. // 45 ### [43.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.47) Clarified butter \[boiled with\] a paste of jīvaka and then / mixed with beeswax and sarjarasa takes away / the suffering of one burned by fire in half a moment by anointing. // 46 ### [43.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.48) Antardagdhakuṭhāraka destroys a wound born of fire by application; / so too powder made from the dried bark of aśvattha by dusting \[it\]; / all \[burn-wounds\] are destroyed by oil cooked with earthworms through anointing; / and likewise water-sand ground with cotton from the silk-cotton tree by application. // 47 ### [43.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.49) The physician should irrigate an acutely inflicted, painful wound / with clarified butter \[mixed\] with a paste of yaṣṭīmadhuka, slightly warm. // 48 ### [43.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.50) Recognising an exogenous wound, the physician should administer clarified butter combined with honey / and cooling treatment that destroys the heat of pitta and blood. // 49 ### [43.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.51) Betel nut alone, finely ground with cow's clarified butter, / constantly pacifies an exogenously arisen wound by application; of this there is no doubt. // 50 ### [43.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.52) Or, irrigated with the juice arisen from the leaves of apāmārga, / the blood actively flowing in fresh wounds is immediately arrested. // 51 ### [43.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.53) Filled with camphor, bound, and \[applied\] with clarified butter, / a fresh weapon-wound in men heals up, devoid of pain and suppuration. // 52 ### [43.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.54) Śarapuṅkhā, kākajaṅghā, the dung of a newly-delivered buffalo cow, / and lajjā individually destroy a fresh wound. // 53 ### [43.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.55) Powder prepared from dog's tongue promotes healing of fresh wounds; / oil from an oil-press is considered pre-eminent for healing in a lacerated or punctured wound. // 54 ### [43.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.56) Having caused \[the patient\] to consume barley-alkali, one should place a bolus of the root of śṛṅgālakoli over the wound; / an embedded foreign body will come out. // 55 ### [43.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.57) Or by an application of the root of lāṅgalī, and likewise from the root of gavākṣī. / To restrain the heat of an injury that has spread at that moment, // 56 ### [43.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.58) Astringent, cold, sweet, and unctuous applications and the like are beneficial. / When blood is situated in the stomach, emesis is declared wholesome; // 57 ### [43.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.59) And when it is situated in the large intestine, purgation should be administered without doubt. / A decoction prepared from bamboo bark, eraṇḍa, śvadaṃṣṭrā, and aśmabhid, // 58 ### [43.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.60) Drunk with asafoetida and rock-salt, drains blood situated in the alimentary tract. / And with the un-unctuous soup of barley, jujube, and kulattha, // 59 ### [43.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.61) One should eat food or drink thick gruel combined with rock-salt. / Where blood flows excessively, which is generally observed, // 60 ### [43.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.62) And vāta is provoked due to loss of blood, causing severe pain, / then drinking unctuous substances, irrigation, unctuous plaster, and poultice, // 61 ### [43.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.63) And an unctuous enema prepared with vāta-pacifying medicaments should be administered. / Thus is declared the seven-day regimen beneficial for a fresh wound. // 62 ### [43.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.64) Beyond seven days, one should perform the treatment as for an endogenous wound. / The juice of karañja, ariṣṭa, and nirguṇḍī destroys wound-worms. // 63 ### [43.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.65) By filling with the split-leaves of kalāya and the stone of koṣāmra, / irrigation with the decoction of the surasādi group, or application of its fresh juice, // 64 ### [43.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.66) Nimba, sampāka, jātī, arka, saptaparṇa, and aśvamāraka / combined with cow's urine destroy worms through irrigation, plastering, and washing. // 65 ### [43.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.67) Or having washed, one should remove worms from wounds with a lump of meat, / or one should apply an application with garlic that destroys worms. // 66 ### [43.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.68) Those large wounds that have moisture, suppuration, discharge, and foul smell, / accompanied by pain and accompanied by oedema, / go to pacification through the decoction of triphalā drunk mixed with guggulu. // 67 ### [43.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.69) Guggulu combined with the powder of triphalā and made into pills / is unrestrained \[by strict dietary rules\], destroys constipation, and purifies and heals wounds. // 68 ### [43.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.70) Amṛtāguggulu is praised, and vajraka oil is beneficial. / Powder of viḍaṅga, triphalā, and tryūṣaṇa equal to guggulu, // 69 ### [43.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.71) Made into pills with clarified butter, or eaten by one who observes a wholesome diet, / cures vicious wounds, cervical lymphadenitis, urinary disorders, skin diseases, and sinus wounds. // 70 ### [43.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.72) The powder of equal parts of amṛtā, paṭola root, / triphalā, trikaṭu, and krimighna, / with an amount of guggulu equal to the whole: // 71 ### [43.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.73) One should eat \[a pill\] measuring an akṣa every day / to conquer wounds, vātarakta, / abdominal lumps, abdominal diseases, oedema diseases, and the like. // 72 ### [43.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.74) Clarified butter prepared with equal parts of the leaves of jātī, nimba, and paṭola, kaṭukā, dārvī, turmeric, śārivā, / mañjiṣṭhā, abhayā, blue vitriol, beeswax, madhuka, and seeds of karañja: / by this, narrow-mouthed wounds located in vital spots, discharging, / deep, painful, and with sinuses dry up and heal. // 73 ### [43.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.75) Gaurī, turmeric, mañjiṣṭhā, māṃsī, and madhuka, / prapauṇḍarīka, hrībera, bhadramusta, along with sandalwood, // 74 ### [43.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.76) Jātī, nimba, paṭola, karañja, kaṭurohiṇī, / beeswax, together with madhuka, and likewise mahāmedā: // 75 ### [43.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.77) One should cook a prastha of clarified butter with the decoction of the five barks. / This Gauraghṛta of great potency purifies all wounds. // 76 ### [43.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.78) Exogenous, congenital, and chronic wounds, / and even an irregular sinus, it quickly purifies. // 77 ### [43.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.79) Gaurādya oil and jātikādya oil are prepared in this manner. / Oil \[is indicated\] in a narrow-mouthed, vicious, and deep wound. // 78 ### [43.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.80) The leaves and fruits of karañja and varuṇa, / and the leaves of jasmine, and likewise of paṭola and nimba, // 79 ### [43.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.81) The two turmerics, beeswax, madhuka, tiktarohiṇī, / mañjiṣṭhā, sandalwood, uśīra, blue lotus, the two śārivās, and trivṛt: / with one-karṣa parts of these, one should cook a prastha of clarified butter. // 80 ### [43.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.82) Karañjādya \[ghṛta\] is praised here for pacifying vicious wounds, / as well as purifying sinuses and fresh incised wounds. // 81 ### [43.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.83) Clarified butter boiled with prapauṇḍarīka, mañjiṣṭhā, madhuka, uśīra, and padmaka, / along with turmeric and milk, heals wounds. // 82 ### [43.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.84) One should cook a wound-healing clarified butter with kaṭurohiṇī, beeswax, turmeric, yaṣṭīmadhuka, fruits and sprouts of karañja, / and leaves of paṭola, jasmine, and nimba. // 83 ### [43.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.85) Oil thoroughly cooked with a paste of red lead, kuṣṭha, aconite, asafoetida, garlic, citraka, / the root of bāṇa, and lāṅgalikā, / whose foam is dispersed by blowing accompanied by the prāsāda-mantra, / pacifies vicious wounds; \[this is\] Viparītamalla. // 84 ### [43.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.86) Sword wounds, large cervical lymphadenitis, major venereal chancre, / sinus ulcers, ulcers, eczema, skin disease, and scabies— / these are destroyed by the oil named Viparītamalla, / for one who sleeps, sits, and eats as he pleases. ### [43.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.87) One should boil one hundred palas of kuṭhāraka in water \[measuring\] a drona; / with that reduced to a quarter, one should cook a prastha of oil, ### [43.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.88) with pastes of kuṭhāra, apāmārga, proṣṭhikā, together with mākṣika. ### [43.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.89) Prapauṇḍarīka, madhuka, both kinds of kākolī, and sandalwood: / oil prepared with equal parts of these is supreme for healing wounds. ### [43.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.90) Or oil prepared with the fresh juice of dūrvā and with kampillaka / and paste of the bark of dārvī is foremost for healing wounds. ### [43.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.91) By whichever procedure oil \[is prepared\], one should prepare clarified butter by the very same procedure; / knowing \[the condition\] to have a predominance of blood and pitta, one should cook only clarified butter. ### [43.92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.92) Having ground mañjiṣṭhā, sandalwood, and mūrvā, one should cook clarified butter; / this is desired as the healer for all burns caused by fire. ### [43.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.93) Mustard oil prepared with the decoction and paste of pāṭalī / destroys pain, discharge, burning sensation, and blisters of burn-wounds. ### [43.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.94) Sandalwood, shoot of the banyan tree, mañjiṣṭhā, and madhuka, / prapauṇḍarīka, mūrvā, pataṅga, and dhātakī— ### [43.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.95) with these, oil along with clarified butter and milk should be cooked; / it is desired for wounds caused by fire, supreme for healing through inunction. ### [43.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.96) Realgar, orpiment, mañjiṣṭhā, along with lac and the two kinds of turmeric: / this plaster, combined with clarified butter and honey, is supreme for purifying the skin. ### [43.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.97) Iron dust with green vitriol and triphalā flowers: / all of this as a plaster produces blackness on newly formed skin. ### [43.98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.98) With kālīyaka, latā, bone of mango, iron, kālā, and mercury, / an application along with cow dung juice is supreme for restoring the natural colour. ### [43.99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43.99) With the ash of the skin, hair, hooves, horns, and bones of quadrupeds, / the surface, smeared with oil and dusted \[with this powder\], becomes hairy again. / Or the physician should conquer a nodule of an ulcer like a nodular growth, or with caustic alkali. ## Linked texts (1) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.43.1) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta~en-mt.43) · Pramāṇa