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Condition

Arjuna (red spot on the white of the eye)

अर्जुन (नेत्ररोग) · अर्जुन

An eye disease: a single spot on the white of the eye, red like hare's blood.

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Herb

Arjuna

अर्जुन

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Glossary entry

अर्जुन

कोह

हिन्दी: कोह · मराठी: दर्भभेद

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Glossary entry

विदारी

विदारीकन्द

हिन्दी: विदारीकन्द, शालवन, एक प्रकार का कंठरोग · मराठी: भुयकोहोळा, गलरोग, कर्णपालीरोग, सुवर्चला, वाराही, क्षीरकंकोळी, कंकोली, अर्जुन, भद्रवि

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Topic

Treatment of arjuna and avrana shukla

अर्जुन और अव्रण शुक्ल की चिकित्सा · अर्जुन व अव्रण शुक्ल की चिकित्सा

A collyrium of conch ash or samudraphena mixed with ghee is said to overcome arjuna; svarna makshika rubbed with phanita and applied as a collyrium cures arjuna and avrana shukla.

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Topic

Siddha Nāgārjuna

सिद्धनागार्जुन

The editor says Siddha Nāgārjuna, Pūjyapāda's sister's son, wrote the Nāgārjuna Kalpa, the Nāgārjuna Kakṣapuṭa and other works, and tells the story of his gold-making gem-pill, the…

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The editor says Siddha Nāgārjuna was Pūjyapāda's sister's son and composed the Nāgārjuna Kalpa,…

The editor says Siddha Nāgārjuna was Pūjyapāda's sister's son and composed the Nāgārjuna Kalpa, the Nāgārjuna Kakṣapuṭa and other works, and seems to have prepared a gem-pill for making…

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Topic

Signs of arjuna and pishtaka

अर्जुन और पिष्टक के लक्षण · अर्जुन व पिष्टक लक्षण

A single spot on the white of the eye, red like hare's blood, is the disease arjuna; a white, raised, painless spot like ground-pulse paste is called pishtaka.

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Formulation

Ghee with the ash of palasha, khadira and arjuna

पलाश, खैर, अर्जुन भस्म सिद्ध घृत

For semen that is full of knots, thick, slimy and pale, ghee prepared with the ash of palasha, khadira and arjuna is drunk.

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Formulation

Katphala, khadira and arjuna bark ghee with buffalo milk

कायफल-खैर-अर्जुन छाल व भैंस के दूध से सिद्ध घृत

Ghee cooked with a bark decoction of katphala, khadira, the sal-resin tree, neem, bhurja and arjuna and with buffalo milk is given daily to a child seized by the Shitaputana graha.

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Glossary entry

करवीर (करवीरक)

कनेर

हिन्दी: कनेर, कनेर की जड़ · मराठी: श्वेत कणेर, अर्जुन वृक्ष

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Glossary entry

वीरांघ्रिप (वीरद्रुम)

कोह वृक्ष

हिन्दी: कोह वृक्ष, तालमखाना, भिलावे का पेड़ · मराठी: बिबवा, वल्कतरु, अर्जुन सादडा, वेलतूर, रामबाण, काळा वाळा, विवळा

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शाल

छोटा शाल

हिन्दी: छोटा शाल · मराठी: सागसादडी, हेद, अर्जुन सादडा, लघु राळेचा वृक्ष, क्षुद्र फणस, बढारफल, थोर राळेचा वृक्ष, चारोळी

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Question

Which earlier Jain medical authors and works does the editor discuss?

सम्पादक किन पूर्ववर्ती जैन वैद्यक ग्रन्थकारों और ग्रन्थों की चर्चा करते हैं?

Chiefly Pūjyapāda (a Kalyāṇakāraka, a Śālākyatantra and the Vaidyāmṛta), Samantabhadra (the Siddhānta Rasāyana Kalpa), the sages of the Puṣpāyurveda, Gummaṭadeva Muni (Merutantra) and…

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Principle

Non-violent diet and avoidance of meat in medicine

अहिंसक आहार (मांस निषेध) · मांसनिषेध

The introduction says that the treatment portion of the Kalyāṇakāraka resembles Caraka to a large extent, apart from the parts dealing with honey, wine and meat.

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Principle

Types of land (desha)

देश (भूमि के प्रकार) · देश

The introduction defines deśa as the region where one lives and says it is of three kinds: jāṅgala, ānūpa and sādhāraṇa.

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Formulation

Ghee cooked with the five milky trees for nosebleed (unnamed)

पंचक्षीरी वृक्ष आदि से सिद्ध घी

Ghee cooked with a decoction of the five milky trees, hribera, nichula (cane) and arjuna, rubbed on the head, is said to calm bleeding from the nose.

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Formulation

Kapitthadi decoction

कपित्थादि क्वाथ

A decoction of wood apple, bael, asana, prishniparni, turmeric, haritaki, bibhitaki, amla and arjuna bark, drunk by a self-controlled patient, is said to overcome all pramehas with their…

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Formulation

Vajra kalpa

वज्र कल्प

Of the kinds of vajra (vajra, vajraloha, vajrabandha fruit, vajrakapala and vajra stone), whichever can be had are collected, burnt by rule in the strong fire of a bellows and, when red…

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Topic

Another way to stop bleeding

रक्त रोकने की दूसरी विधि · शोणितस्तम्भन अपर विधि

Alternatively, lodhra, pure cow dung, wheat, amalaki, conch, shell (shukti), arimeda (glossed as foul-smelling khadira) with the knots of these trees, and the sarja, arjuna and bhurja trees…

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Topic

Cleaning the teeth

दंत धावन (दातुन) · दंत धावन

Every morning the teeth are to be cleaned with a faultless tooth-stick suited to the doshas; the commentary names neem, babul, karanja and arjuna. This is said to bring desire for food,…

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Procedure

Cleaning the teeth with a tooth-stick

दंत धावन · दन्तधावन

Every morning the teeth are cleaned with a faultless tooth-stick suited to the doshas, which the commentary explains as sticks of neem, babul, karanja, arjuna and the like that counter…

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Formulation

Conch ash collyrium with ghee

शंख-घृत अंजन

Conch ash or samudraphena mixed with ghee and applied as a collyrium is said to overcome arjuna.

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Topic

Eye diseases not to be treated with the knife

शस्त्रकर्म से वर्जित नेत्ररोग · शस्त्रकर्म से वर्जित नेत्ररोगों के नाम

Twelve eye diseases, among them pishtaka, arjuna, dhumadarshi, shukti, aklinna vartma, kapha- and pitta-vidagdha drishti, shushkakshipaka, shukla, amladhyushita, praklinna vartma and…

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