A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c14.13

v1.c14.13

Forty-five formulations are described: eight preparations in milk (3.5cd–6 and 7cd–10ab), one in surāmaṇḍa (3.7ab), one in mastu²⁶ (3.10cd), one in takra²⁷ (3.11ab), one kind of snuff (ghreya) (3.11cd–12ab), one with guḍa²⁸ and palala²⁹ (3.12cd), one oil (3.13ab), one ghee (3.13ab), six with a successively increasing number of ikṣvāku seeds in a decoction of one of the drugs of the phalādi group³⁰ (3.13cd–14ab), one in a kaṣāya of yaṣṭyāhva³¹ and eight in a kaṣāya of one of the drugs of the kovidārādi group³² (3.14cd), eight mātrāyogas³³ (3.15ab), five kinds of leha (3.15cd–19ab)³⁴, one in a mantha³⁵ (3.19cd–20ab), and one in māṃsarasa (meat broth) (3.20c-f).