Book Title: Suvarna Raupya Siddhi Shastra
Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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________________ 197 "Syphilis (pbiangiroga)' as mentioned in the faina and other Indian Works of the period had now to be reckoned with and a new name to be coined for it." "The use of this drug-Chobchini - China root, smilax China, (Cśniakapūr) as a remedy for syphilis, it is believed, was made known to the Portuguese at goa by the Chinese traders about A. D. 1535. Vaidyaka aiṁgraha prescribes both herbs and minerāls, such as, Chobesnini, rusakapur (calomel) and mercury, (pārada) bodarasingi (oxide of lead), etc. for phiningaroga on the basis of the study of its symptomology. FOURTH CHAPTER First Section Medical Remedies for appelike etc. : Rub mercury tā. 4 and chaletā * of hen tā 15 for a day and cover the whole thing with a layer of cloth and clay and dry it up in shade. Next when the smoke of fire lit with the goat's dung stops, then give it (the mixture of mercury and chaleta of hen) by putting it into a bottle. Next morning it becomes cool, take it out. There becomes the essence. If 1 rati of it is taken with betel leaf, it produces appetite.* Put Barāsa karpua (Camphor from Java), Borneo camphor tola-2 and mercury to. 1 in a plate: Give Camphor under and over mercury and Cover mercury. Cover it up with a cup and seal it up with wax. Make dipāgni by putting it (plate) under, give fire to it for 1 prahara. All these will become the essence. Mix 1 rati of the essence into 1 tola of copper. If 1 rati of the essence is taken with betel leaf, there will be appetite of 10 srs 5 Purify lead { sr., make a thin leaf of it. Next make collyrium (Kājali) of mercury pai. and sulphur pai. 2, for 4 praharas. Then take a jar and 1. Vaidyaka samgraha, a MS. No. 30994, in L.D. Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad; See Arkaprakāśa of Ravana and Bnāvaprakāśa also of Bhāva Misra. 2. Hindu Chemistry, p. 162 3. Ibid., X Not explained in absence of a commentary. 4. SRSS., Ch. 3. 51. 5. SRSS., Ch. 4. 10. Jain Education International For Personal & Private Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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