Rasratna Samucchay

Author(s): Manikyadevsuri
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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and mixed with oil of Datura (Svarṇabijabhava) kills (cures) a severe (uncomparable) typhoid.
Now Braddhavadavānala
27.
Mercury fixed (fainted) with gentle fire and sprinkhed with the juice of Jarāyuja (Agnijāravšksa)=Gloriosa superb ?), even as one is celebrated (known) as Anila (air), because of its power of drying up the sea of typhoid.
Now the killing of Mercury by another reading (Process)
28.
Mercury killed with the juice of Agnijāral, and mixed with the juice of agnikāştha, bile and opium, a grain of prepared medicine with it, measuring a drop on the eve of a needle is like a kind of marine fire for drying up the sea of diseases. Agnijāra Agnigarbhāśayo becomes like an uterus. Mercury rubbed with it gets reduced to ashes. Then Druti of Agnika. ştha is taken into a pātālayantra. Then by combining these bile and opium the pill measuring a rāi (mustard seed) is to be made; after giving the pill to the patient, cold thing is to be given to the patient.
Now Another Medicine
29. A pill of medicine called Vādavi measuring one rati alone,
having twelve parts of Trikagu (Sunth, maric, pipad) and fifty nine parts of Manasvini (ctenolepis Momordica Mixta), rubbed with the water of Khecara=green vitriol (=hirākasis) and very much dried up by Sanābhia, heated with the straw fire and mixed with one part of sțiigikā (Aconitum chasmanthaneum) (Rhus succanea) can dry up the sea of typhoid.
It is called Vadaviguţika.
A small pill of Vyoşa=(Trikatu-suņth, maric and pipad) bha : (paisa) (parts) 12, Samkhāholis-Manasvini (Ctenolepis)
1. Samudra phena, See page No. 46. foot not. 2. Not identified