Invocation and statement of intent

Bowing to Lord Jinendra, whom the lord of the gods worships, the author promises to describe the uttarabasti, with the features of its nozzle, its use, its procedure and the measure of its fluid, to remove the defects of semen and menstrual blood. A footnote defines uttarabasti as the basti given into the male organ, or into the urinary passage and uterus of women, named so because it is given after (uttara) the niruha.