sac and the cornea) should be duly fomented. A quarter part only of the protuberance or growth should be kept apart, while the remaining upper three quarters should be secured with a hook and cut with a knife. Half of the aforesaid quarter part should then be cut away (very carefully), as lachrymal sinus (and consequent lachrymation) would otherwise set in. The seat of operation should be subsequently rubbed (Pratisárana) with a compound of honey and Saindhava-salt. Scarifying (Lekhana) powders should then be applied to the affected part for the complete recovery of the disease (any complaint still remaining). 10.
Churna-Anjana: -Powders of S'amkha (conch-shell), Samudra-phena, marine oyster-shell, crystal, ruby, coral, Aśmantaka, Vaidurya (Lapis lazuli), pearl, iron, copper and Srotonjana (antimony) taken in equal parts and mixed together, should be stuffed in a ram's horn*[1] and then let the intelligent one apply this Churna-anjana (powder) to the affected locality, morning and evening everyday, as such applications are extremely efficacious in all types of Armans, Pidakás, Sirá-jála, Arsás, Śushkárśas and Arvuda, etc., in the eye. 11.
Treatment of inner part of the eye-lids: — The mode of treatment in a case of any affection in the inner lining of the Vartma (eye-lid) is given below. The affected part should be first fomented and then the eye-lid should be over-turned (held at an angle), and the diseased growth or swelling should be carefully lifted up with a needle, when an experienced physician should cut it at its root or base with the help of a sharp Mandalágra instrument. After that the affected part should be rubbed with a pulverised compound consist-
- ↑ * Dallana explains 'Meshas'ringá as a kind of Ingudi tree.
