A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.427.4

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they are called mākuli, poṭagala, and snigdharājī;¹¹⁴ mākuli is a cross-breed of kṛṣṇasarpa and gonasa, poṭagala of rājila and gonasa, snigdharājī of kṛṣṇasarpa and rājimant; some are of the opinion that the poison of a mākuli is like that of its male parent, that of the other two like that of their female parent; the vaikarañja snakes are of seven subtypes: divyelaka, rodhrapuṣpaka, rājicitraka, poṭagala, puṣpābhikīrṇa, darbhapuṣpa, and vellitaka; the first three resemble the rājila (= rājimant), the other four the maṇḍalin;¹¹⁵ thus the eighty kinds of snakes have been described (4.34); characteristic features of male, female and napuṃsaka snakes (4.35);¹¹⁶ the general effects of snake-bite (4.36); the signs and symptoms of bites by darvīkara, maṇḍalin and rājimant snakes (4.37);¹¹⁷ characteristic features of persons bitten by a male, female or napuṃsaka snake,¹¹⁸ by a pregnant (garbhiṇī) snake, or one which has recently given birth (sūtikā),¹¹⁹ by an old, young or non-venomous snake; some assert that the bite of a blind snake causes blindness; an ajagara¹²⁰ kills its victim by swallowing it, and not by means of poison; a person bitten by a serpent with an instantaneously deadly (sadyaḥprāṇahara) poison drops down and loses consciousness (4.38);