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Linganasha is described as timira that has reached the fourth layer of the eye and blocks sight completely; it is also called nilika kacha and has six dosha types, besides two externally…

For linganasha born of intense kapha, recognised when it disperses on pressing, the patient is made to look at his own nose; the physician carefully pierces the natural opening in the white…

Triphala powder taken with sesame oil in vata linganasha, with ghee in kapha linganasha and with white sugar in pitta and blood linganasha, said to give the eyes clarity, nourishment and…

Triphala powder is taken with sesame oil in vata linganasha, with ghee in kapha linganasha and with white sugar in pitta and blood linganasha, and is said to give the eyes clarity,…

Linganasha is also called nilika kacha. In the vata type all objects always appear reddish and rough.

A pitta-born kind of linganasha which, the editor says, dropped out of the manuscripts and which he supplies in a footnote; also a colour term for the drishti circle in pitta kacha.

After the kapha type is recognised by pressing, the patient looks at his nose and the physician slowly pierces the natural opening in the white of the eye with a smooth copper yavavaktra…

Externally caused linganasha is of two kinds, with and without an apparent cause. The caused kind arises from a severe blow, such as wind that has touched the fruit of a poisonous tree…

Linganasha that follows staring fixedly at the sun, Indra, serpent deities or brilliant gems such as diamonds, which destroys the power of sight, is not joined with the doshas and leaves…

If linganasha (timira) disperses quickly when pressed, it is known to be born of intense kapha. The patient looks at his own nose; the physician slowly pierces the natural opening in the…

With sesame oil in the vata type, with ghee in the kapha type, and with white sugar in the pitta and blood types.

In the pitta type the patient sees everything like lightning, the rainbow, fire, the sun and fireflies; in the kapha type everything looks white; in the blood type things look very red and…

In the type born of all three doshas the patient sees many strange, many-coloured forms and things look distorted. When kacha is of vata, the drishti circle becomes reddish and fixed. An…

The text describes doshas lodging in successive layers (patala) of the eye and impairing sight step by step; when timira reaches the fourth layer it is called linganasha.

From blood the drishti circle becomes red like coral or dark, and from all three doshas variegated; thus six kinds of linganasha are stated.

In the first layer things are seen indistinctly; in the second even a needle's eye cannot be seen; in the third things below are not seen and objects look like hair, mosquitoes or flies; in…

Heading of the section on using the knife and other instruments in eye diseases: preparing the eye, scraping, incision, excision, puncturing, pakshmakopa, the needling of kapha linganasha…

When timira reaches the fourth layer it blocks sight completely and is called linganasha (loss of sight), which has six further kinds. A footnote adds that it is also called timira and…