A

Alepa Alepana ......Plaster - see Vol. I Ch. XVIII.

III - 155 Andha-putana .. .. A demoness supposed to cause diseases to children. Anila ... .. .. See Vayu

Anjali .. .. .. A measure weighing half a seer.

32 Tolas. Anna .. .. .. Boiled rice ; solid food ; food.

II - 39I Antar-dhuma .. . (Burning) in two covered pitchersi.e. in the abscence of air. I - 487 Anupa .. .. .. Belonging to a marshy place. See Vol. I. P. 325, 487. Anuloma ......In regular or natural order or course.

II - 394 Anulomana .. .. Medicines which help the digestion of the Doshas, esp. the Vayu and set them'free. Purgative.

Anu-rasa.........A secondary flavour. An after-taste.

Anuvasana .. .. Oily enema. See Vol. II P. 594.

Anuvellita .. .. Bandage. See Vol. I P. 167.

Apa .........Water or liquid. See Vol. I P. 374;

Vol. II P. 121. Apana-Vayu .. .. See Vol. II P. 3. Flatus.

Apa-Tarpana .. .. Depletory measures ; fasting ; food that does not gratify. II - 209 Apta-vak .. .. Persons or words of authority.

Apupa .. .. .. Cakes.

Aranala .. .. .. The acid fermentation of the wheat-boiling. A variety of kanjika. Ardra .. .. .. One of the 27 constellations.

Arishta .. .. .. A variety of liquor. See Vol. I. 266.

I - 287 Arundhati ......Pole-star ; one of the Pliades.

II - 75 Arvuda.........A tumour.

Asava .. .. .. Fermented liquor.

As'chyotana ... .. The process of dropping a liquid into the eye. Eye-drop. See Vol. III P. S4.

As'lesha.........One of the 27 constellations.

Asthapana .. .. Non-oily enema. See Vol. II Ch.

XXXVII. As'vini .. .. .. The first of the 27 constellatons.

Atharvan ......The fourth Veda.

Atreya .. .. .. The founder of the school of

Ayurvedic medicine. Audaka .. .. .. Pertaining to water.

Aupadrava ......Pertaining to an Upadrava or the side-issue of a disease. I - 317 Aupasargika .... Pertaining to an Upasarga ; sympathetic.

I - 425 Avanti .. ......Name of a city - modern Ujjaini.

Avapida-nasya......A kind of errhine. II. P. 659.

Avasechana ......Sprinkling.

Ayana .. .. .. Half year : the solstice.

Ayaskanta ......Magnet. Vol. I. 256.

Ayuh .. .. .. Vital condition ; natural span of life. See Vol. II. - Intro. VIII.

Ayurveda .. .. The Science of life: See Vol. I.

P. 2 ; Vol. II. Intro, ii.

B

III - 162 Bhaga ..... .. A god of that name.

Bharadvaja ......The founder of the School of Ayurvedic medicine.

Bharani.........The second of the 27 constellations.

Bhavana .. .. A process of saturating. See Vol. II. note P. 312.

Brahma .. .. .. The supreme Being. The creator ; the first Deity of the sacred Hindu Trinity to whom is entrusted the work of creating the world. The founder of the Ayurveda.

Brahmana .. .. A person belonging to the highest (original) caste of the Hindus : A Brahmana was born from the mouth of the Purusha - cf. Manu. ch. I P. 30.

Brahmadeva ......A commentator of Sushruta Samhita.

II - 128 Brahma-charini .. A woman ovserving the vow of continence...Manu-samhita - ch I.

Brahmarshi .. .. A Brahmana ascetic.

C

Chakra-laila .. .. Oil pressed out from a wooden oil-mill.

Chakradatla .. .. A shortened form of Chakrapani Dulta, commentator of Charaka and Sushruta Samhila and the clebrat-ed compiler of a medical treatise named "Chakradatta."

Chaitya .. .. .. A Buddhist temple. See note Vol. II

P. 216.

Chatuh-Sneha .. .. Oil, clarified butter, fat and marrow.

II - 405 Chitra-bhanu .. .. The name of Surya, the Sun-god.

D

Darvi-homa .......A kind of Vedic religious sacrifice.

Das'a-mula .. See Vol. I. V. 355. I - 230 Dauhrida ......The longing of an enciente (for some thing or other). Dhatus .. .. .. Root or fundamental principles. See Vol. I. Ch. XV. See Intro. XLI.

Dhanyamla ......A fermented acid gruel prepared from paddy. I - 546 Dhana .........Parched barley.

Dhamani ......See Vol. II. P. 209. A vessel, artery or duct. II.- 653 Dhuma-pana .. .. Smoking; fumagative inhalation.

Dhruva .. .. .. Immutable Being; the pole-star.

Dipana .. .. .. Appetising.

II - 120 Dosha..... .. The fundamental principles; morbid diothesis. See Dhatu I. P. 120 Intro. XLVII.

Drona .. .. .. A measure of sixteen seers; when used in respect of a liquid substance, it would mean double that quantity i.e. thirty-two seers.

Dundubhi .. .. A sort of large kettle-drum; a drum.

Dvandaja .. .. Dvi-doshaja; Produced from the morbid affection of any two Doshas.

Dvi-dosha •• .. A combination of any two of the three Doshas.

G

Ganga .. .. .. One of the sacred rivers of the Hindus; the modern Ganges. The river Ganges personified.

II - 127 Garbhadhana ......The ceremony of impregnation ; one of the principal Samskaras (rites) of the Hindus. Garuda .. .. .. The name of the king of birds. It is the carrier of Vishnu.

Garuda-Purana..... One of the principal Puranas.

Gayatri.........The sacred vedic hymn.

Ghata .. .. .. A measure of thirty-two seers ; when used in respect of liquid substances, it would mean double the quantity - i.e. 64 seer.

I - 437 Ghola ..... .. Curd-whey. See Takra.

I - 442 Ghrita-manda......Upper layer of clarified butter; cream-feather.

II - 26 Gomeda.........A kind of gem Gotra .........Lineage, family or race.

Gophana ......A kind of bandage. See Vol. I. P. 168.

III - 141 Graha............Stars, planets or spirits. An evi. spirit. Grahi .. .. .. Astringent, lit. any medicines which is both stomachic and digestive and dries the fluid of the body through its heat-producing properties.