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insects.1 Flesh (mamsa) or rice-floor mixed with ghṛta and honey was commonly used for extracting the small insects which clung to the affected portion.2 According to Suśruta, bhagandara was so named as it burst the lower rectum, the perineum, the bladder and the place adjoining them (thus setting up a mutual communication between them ).*
(v) Daddu ( Ringworm): Daddu was a common skindisease.* It is same as dadru or ringworms which usually appear on the skin.
(vi) Dagodara ( Dakodara-Ascites ) : Dagodara, also known as jaloyara (jalodara), was considered as one of the eight types of vyadhis5 and is same as ascites. Eating impure food touched by lice or other insects, or wearing wet-clothes," is mentioned as the cause of this disease. According to Suśruta, the person suffering from the disease inordinately enlarges the abdomen which becomes glossy and full of water like a fullbloated water-drums.
(vii) Daha or Dahajara (Inflamation or Typhoid fever): Daha was caused by the derangement of the pitta element (bile ).9 Daha and jara are mentioned as two
1. भगंदर अप्पण्णतो अधिट्ठाणे क्षतं किमियजालसंपण्णं - NC. 2, p. 215; भगंदर: पुतसंधौ व्रण विशेषो — Bh. V. 4, p. 1118
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2. पोग्गलं मंसं, तं गहेऊण भगंदले पवेसिज्जति, ' ...असती पोग्गलस्स समिया घेप्पर, " सा मद्दुघएहिं तुप्पेउं मद्दिजं च भगदले च्छुभति, ते किमिया तत्थ लग्गंति—NG. 1, p. 100.
3. ते तु, भगगुदबस्तिप्रदेशदारणाच्च भगन्दरा इत्युच्यन्ते — Susrutasamhitā, Nidānas
thāna, 4. 3.
4. NC. 2, pp. 62, 214.
5. N. Bhā. 3647; NC. 3, p. 258.
6. छप्पदादिसु यन्नादिपडियखद्धासु दगोदरं भवति - जलोदरमित्यर्थ: - NG 3, p. 161; also NC. 1, p. 93.
7. NC. 3, p. 161.
8. यथा दृति: क्षुभ्यति कम्पते च शब्दायते चापि दकोदरं तत् |- -Suśrutasaṁhitā,
Nidānasthāna, 7. 23.
9. f -NC. 2, p. 267; Brh. Vr. 4, p. 1039.
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