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to abortion and harmless bịrth control, 2 brought, about if old ghee (clariefid butter) is taken by a woman during her menstrual period. The final phase of alchemy as found in the Jaina MSS. "Suvarņa - Raupya - Siddhi-sastra, Rasarantasamuccaya, etc. is charactrized by the fact that over and above opium some other foreign drugs are found incorporated into its pharmacology as is evidenced in other Indian alchemical works. It is a well known historical fact that the Portuguese had fairly established themselves at Goa and some parts of India by the beginning of the sixteenth century A.D. 3 “As a result of intercourse of India with them that dreadful scourge - the venereal disease - Syphilis made its appearnce * in India.
Syphilis (phiringi - or phirangiroga) as mentioned in the Jaina and other Indian alchemical works of the period "had now to be reckoned with and a new name had to be coined for it."6
The Jaina MSS-Suvarna-Raupya-Siddhi-sastra and Vaidyaka-Samaraha prescribe calomel (rasakarpūra)? (of reyamciniją and (Chabchipil = * 1. "Dhatūrākā mūlä Krşņa 14 Caturdaśí tathā ravivāre lije/dhupine • kațiku bamdhana strikā garbha gir pare garbha nahi dhare//
Nāgārjunividya, ch. 1, 23 2. "Ritukāle pusāņa goghỉta khāi pive to strigarbha nivāre, sahi/,
"Nagarjunjvidyā, ch. I. gātha 24. 3. Hindu Chemistry, Dr. P. C. Ray, p. 162. 4. Ibid 5. A Jaina MS. of an unknown author of the 18th
Century A. D. in the Collection of Kalyāņa Vijayaji No. 2695, Vaidyaka Sangraha in Old Gujarati in the same collection No. 2093, They throw light on this phiringiyata, and syphilitic chance, etc, and their remedies. e.g. Atha phirangavātápratikara. Bodärasiņģi, hırákasısa, katho, vāulachalı dādimachali samabhagacūrņa limga cāpii limgaroga jāi./. MS. No. 2095 (30994)
Phirangavatasamadhih. "Rasakapūra tā. 1, ilācidānā ļā 1. Katho tā 1, Citraka ța 1, ciniyakapura ta l, akolakaro tā. 1 Jāiphala tā 1, javamtri tā 1, sarva ausadha pisi nimbursasasu goli 14, kijai, prabhāti samdhai din 7, logala jāi dudh, bhāt pathya, phiramgavayasamadhi/, MS. NO (2093) 30992. "Remedy for syphilitic chancre (2095) 30994. Naghugha tā 1, kādho ta 2, cunokali tā.' 4, ekatra karı pisme ghee gāyano tā 18, ghata Kásarabhājanamahe mardii, pra, 8 lagai, phiramga cāmdı jai, MS.
No. 2985 (30994). 6. See Hindu Chemistry, p. 162; Arkaprakąsā, etc.
7. Ibig. 8. SRSS., ch. X. 1 Vaidyaka Samgraha, Phirangavatasamādhih.
9. Ibid., ch, VIII, 35, IX. 68.
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