A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s29.9

v3.c43.s29.9

Some of the topics are: vaśya (subjugation; 3–6); vidveṣaṇa (sowing dissension; 7–10); uccāṭana (eradication; 11–14); puruṣāntardhāna (rendering oneself invisible; 25–30); kautūhala (the production of unusual phenomena; 31–38); agnistambha (the quenching of fire; 39–42); śastrastambha (making weapons harmless; 55–58); akālagrahana (causing solar and lunar eclipses; 63–67); mṛtasamjīvana (making dead animals alive again; 135), etc. Subjects pertaining more or less to medicine are: lomaśātana (the removal of hair; 51–54); viṣapahāra (counteracting poisons; 73–76); viṣamajvarāpahāra (counteracting irregular fever; 77–78); vandhyāputrajanana (making a barren woman give birth to a son; 85–86); vandhyākaraṇa (producing sterility in a woman; 89–92); liṅgavṛddhi (increasing the size of the male organ; 93–96); śukrastambha (delaying ejaculation; 97–100); yoniśūlakaraṇa (causing pain in the female organs; 101); kuṣṭhakaraṇa (causing kuṣṭha to appear; 102);⁹⁷³ garbhastambha (preventing delivery in a pregnant woman; 106); vṛścikaviṣapahāra (counteracting the effects of a scorpion-bite; 108–111); bhagasamkocana (healing wounds of the female organs; 121); bhagodhāṭana (making the vagina accessible or inaccessible to the male; 122); bhagapravāha (causing bleeding from the female organs; 123). Some of the recipes bear names, e.g., kalpalalanā (26) and reṇurāja (121).