Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c13.s3.32

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The drinking of urine (moya) was another old practice described in the Brhatkalpa sūtra.⁵⁸ The Jain monks and the nuns drank each other’s (annamannassa) urine to cure snake-bite,⁵⁹ cholera and fever The mud from the ant-hill, salt, gold and incantations were other means to cure snake-bite ⁶⁰ Water was sprinkled over the blisters caused by the spider and snake-bite.⁶¹ The fly dropping was used in case of vomitting, and the horse-fly (*āsamakkhyā*) to remove dirt from the eye ⁶² There were pills to cure eye-sore ⁶³ Flesh was used to cure fistula and in its absence rice powder (*kaṇukkā*) mixed with honey and *ghee* was used ⁶⁴ For madness, it is stated that if a monk or a nun became mad, they were tied gently and were kept in a room or a well without water ⁶⁵ A novel method of curing the madness of a nun due to her attachment to the sexual part of a person is mentioned A slave was made drunk and made to sleep. His body besmeared with vomit, attracted flies, seeing which the nun was cured of her obsession ⁶⁶