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fire by puşapāka method, barks, roots bulb, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, bitters (silika)' pills, nrugs (Nsaha) etc.?
Besides these a long list of other kinds of treatment-both medical and surgical as prescibed by the physicians on the basis of the nature of disease is provided by the different Jaina texts, e. g. the use of hairy or hairless (salomanilloma) skin for the old monks and nuns, the lying down on the skin in the case of flatulence (uddhavāta) or paralysis (dhanuggaha) or of piles or severe pain or of the dislocations of foot or of the attack of wind on the whole or the part of the body of a nun, the wrapping up up of the affected part of the body with the skin of hyaena (traccha) in the case of her rheumatism (vāta) and the lying down on tiger's skin (divicamma) in that of dog biting etc. 4
The Nišitha cūrņi II throws a welcome light upon the surgical treatment by referring to various kinds of instruments for operation, while the Vivāga suya mentions the Surgical cases & treated by the surgeons.
As regards the diet of the patients there is mention of meat and wine as prescribed by the physician in special cases of disease.?
Besides, other kinds of treatment are found to have been prescribed in the Jaina works, such as, the drinking of wine (maya), skin treatment for the Jaina monks suffering from serious leprosy, (galantakodha), piles, Kacchu or Kidibha-a kind of leprosy known as pamas the tying of a leg of a vulture, the use of the teeth and nails of a bear and the hair of a ram for paralysis.
1. Vivāga suya 1. p. 8. Brhatkalpa Bhāsya 3816-18. 2. Bphatkalpa sūtra 3.36, Bphatkalpa Bhāşya 3839-41 3. Brhatkalpa Bhāsya, 3816-18 4. See life in Ancient India. Dr. J. C. Jain, p. 180. 5. Niśıtha Cūrni II, p. 701 6. Vivāga Suya, i. p. 48.
Sec Vinayavastu of Mūlasarvāstivāda, pp. 27.43 7. Nāyādhammakahāo 5, p. 80.
C.F. Vivāga suya II, cf. Mahavagga VI. 10.2 8. Bphatkalpa Bhāşya, 3839-48. 9. Ogha Nijjutti, p. 734, Bombay edition, 1919 Piņņanijjutti, p. 48. ff.
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