The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.170

c8.170

1. You are born at night, O sombre plant, black and dark. O *rajanī*, colour this *Kilāsa*.
2. And make disappear from here that which is spotted, the *kilāsa* and the pale. That the colour which is its (the colour of that which is white) may penetrate you. Chase the whites away.
3. Devoid of white is your solution, your station is devoid of white, you are dark, O plant, make disappear, from here that which is spotted.
4. By incantation I have destroyed the white spot which is in the skin, of the *kilāsa* born from the bones, born from the body, produced by malice.³