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Named with bala in the vata-stone ghee; the commentary renders mahabala as sahadei.

हिन्दी: सहदेई · मराठी: तानीचा बेल, पेटारी, पिंपळी, सहदेवी, गवादनी, वत्सादनी, लघु नीली, गवाक्षी, धामणी, गिरिकर्णी

हिन्दी: सरहटी, गंडनी, पीले फूल का दण्डोत्पला, सहदेई · मराठी: महाबला, थोर निली, सहदेवी, चित्रडी

Jāmun fruit is listed among fruits said to bind the stool strongly, to be cold and to be wholesome in pitta and kapha disorders.

Hintāla, glossed as a kind of palmyra palm, is listed among fruits said to be heavy to digest, to produce semen and to increase kapha greatly.

At the onset of a stone the patient is cleansed by emesis, purgation and the like, then given ghee cooked with the decoction and paste of pashanabheda, shilajit, shatavari, gokshura,…