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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JUNE, 1910.
The smoke caused by burning the powder made of the mixture of the dung and urine of pigeons, frogs, flesh-eating animals, elephants, men, and boars, the chaff and powder of barley mixed with kd sisa (green sulphate of iron), rice, the seeds of cotton, kutaja (nerium antidysentericum), and kośátaki (lupla pentandra), cow's urine, the root of bhandi (hydrocotyle asiatica), the powder of nimba (nimba meria), tigru (hyperanthera morunga), phamirjaka (a kind of tulasi plant), kshibap luka (ripe coreya arborea), and thanga (a common intoxicating drug), the skin of a snake and fish, and the powder of the nails and tusk of an elephant, all mixed with the chaff of madana (1) and kodra va( paspalam scrobiculatum), or with the chaff of the seeds of hastikarna (castor oil troe) and paldsa (butea frondosa) causes instantaneous death wherever the smoke is carried off by the wind.
When a man who has kept his eyes secure with the application of ointment and medicinal water barns, on the occasion of the commencement of a battle and the assailing of forts, the roots of kali (tragia involucrata), kushtha (costus), nada (a kind of reed), and éatdvarí (asperagus racemosus), or the powder of the skin of) a snake, the tail of a peacock, krikana (a kind of partridge), and panchakushtha (?), together with the chaff as previously described or with wet or dry chaff, the smoke caused thereby destroys the eyes of all animals.
The ointment prepared by mixing the excretion of drika (maina), kapota (pigeon), baka (crane), and baldka (a kind of small crane) with the milk of kåkskiva (hyperanthera morunga), píluka (a species of careya arborea), and snuhi (euphorbia) causes blindness and poisons water.
The mixture of yavaka (a kind of barley), the root of sdla (achyrantes triundria), the fruit of madana (datura plant ?), the leaves of jati (nutmeg ?), and the urine of a man mixed with the powder of the root of plakeha (fig tree), and riddri (liquorice), as well as the essence of the decoction of musta (a kind of poison), udumbara (glomerous fig tree), and kodrava (paspalam scrobiculatum) or with the decoction of hastikarņa (castor oil tree) and paldía (butea frondosa) is termed the juice of madana (madanayoga).
The mixture of the powders of bringi (atis betula), gaumevriksha (1), kantakdra (solanum canthocarpum), and mayüra pudi (?), the powder of gunja seeds, languli (jusseina repens), vishamilika (P), and ingudi (beart-pea), and the powder of karavíra (oleander), akshi piluka (careya arborea), arka plant, and mȚigamarini (?) combined with the decoction of madana and kodrava or with that of hastikarna and palása is termed madang mixture (madanayoga).
The combination of the above two) mixtures poisons grass and water when applied to them.
The smoke caused by burning the mixture of the powders of krikana (a kind of partridge, krikalasa (lizard), grihagauliká (a small house-lizard), and andhdhika. (a blind snake) destroys the eyes and causes madness.
The smoke caused by burning the) mixture of krikalása and grihagaulikd causes leprosy.
The smoke caused by burning the same mixture together with the entrails of chitrabheka (a kind of frog of variegated colour), and madhu (celtis orientalis P) causes gonorrhoea.
The same mixture wetted with human blood causes consumption.
The powder of dúshívisha (?), madana (datura plant ?), and kodrava (paspalam scrobiculatum) destroys the tongue.
The mixture of the powder of mdtpiráhakd (?), jalúká (leech), the tail of peacock, the eyes of a frog, and pfluka (careya arborea) causes the disease known as vishchika.
The mixture of pancha kuththa (?), kaundinyaka (?), rdjarriksha (cassia fistula), and madhupushpa (bassia latifolia), and madhu (honey ?) causes fever.
Tho mixture prepared from the powder of the knot of the tongue of bhdja (?), and nakula (mongoose) reduced to a pasto with the milk of a she-donkey Causes both dumbness and deafness,
