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Leaves of the sarja (rāl) tree are listed among leaf vegetables said to remove kapha, to be hot and to be wholesome in vata disorders.

हिन्दी: साल वृक्ष, राल, पियासाल · मराठी: लोहोबंदी ऊद, राळेचा वृक्ष, थोर राळेचा वृक्ष, अश्वकर्ण, सायली वृक्ष

हिन्दी: नागकेशर · मराठी: नागकेसर

हिन्दी: नाकुलीकन्द, कंकालिका [बंगभाषा], सरहटी, गंडनी · मराठी: थोर मुंगुसवेल, थोर सुगंध, मुंगुस कान्दा, तानवडीचें झाड, श्वेत विष्णुक्रान्ता, रक्त शंखपुष्पी

The anal region has three folds (vali), lying one angula apart from the anal opening inwards, so that the three together span three angula; the piles described arise in these folds.

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

A smoking wick made by wrapping an eight-angula reed in cloth and coating it with pure guggulu, sarja resin and fat (ghee or oil); smoked by persons whose bodies are very dry, it is called…

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…

The tops of the date, sarja, pomegranate, coconut, hintala and tala trees, ground in banana juice with ghee and buffalo milk (curd in the commentary), or liquorice, sandalwood and sariva…

To calm raktapitta, the tops of the date, sal-resin (sarja), pomegranate, coconut, hintala and tala trees are ground in banana juice and mixed with ghee and buffalo milk (curd, says the…

Lodhra, pure cow dung, wheat, amalaki, conch, shell, arimeda with the knots of these trees, and the sarja, arjuna and bhurja trees with their bark are powdered; the powder is dusted on the…

Dry land has rough grasses and shrubs; trees such as sarja, arjuna, bhūrja, palāśa, asana and teak; red, dark and pale soils; hills of hard stone, bamboo thickets and forests with fierce…

Leaf vegetables of guhyākṣī, safflower, the śāka tree, lavaṇī, rāī, ajamoda, white mustard, tamarind and mango leaves, śyāmatamāla, kulāhala, gaṇḍīra, kandūrī, drumstick, cumin, fennel,…

Quoted formula (Basavarājīya, 6th prakaraṇa, p.103), attributed to Pūjyapāda: Kālāgnirudra rasa, also called Agnituṇḍī, for the eighty vāta disorders. Purified mercury, viṣa, sulphur,…

The anus has three folds (vali), one angula apart from the anal opening inwards, so that together they span three angula; all the piles described arise in these folds. Footnotes name the…

A reed eight angulas long is wrapped in cloth and smeared with pure guggulu, sarja resin and fat; the commentary adds that it is dried, the reed drawn out, and the wick put in the smoking…