एकोनत्रिंशोऽध्यायः अथातः स्कन्दापस्मारप्रतिषेधं व्याख्यास्यामः, धन्वन्तरिः ॥ यथोवाच भगवान्
Now we shall discourse on the chapter which deals with the Therapeutics of an attack by Skandapasmara (SkandapasmaraPratisedha ). 1
बिल्वः शिरीषो गोलोमी सुरसादिश्च यो गणः । परिषेके प्रयोक्तव्यः स्कन्दापस्मारशान्तये । सर्वगन्धविपक्वन्तु तैलमभ्यञ्जने हितम् ॥ २ ॥ क्षीरवृक्षकषाये च काकोल्यादौ गणे तथा । विपक्तव्यं घृतं वापि पानीयं पयसान्वितम् ॥ ३॥
A decoction of Bilva, Sirisa, Golomi (Duralabha), and the drugs of the Sursadi group should be employed in sprinkling the body of the child possessed of the present disease. Medicated oil duly cooked with the drugs of the Sarvagandha group should be used in anointing its body. Clarified butter duly cooked with milk and the decoction of the barks of the Ksiri trees together with the drugs of the Kakolyadi group as Kalkat should be prescribed for internal use. 2-3.
उत्सादनं वचाहिङ्ग-युक्तं स्कन्दग्रहे हितम् ॥ ४ ॥ गृध्रोलूकपुरीषाणि केशा हस्तिनखा घृतम् । वृषभस्य च रोमाणि योज्यान्युद्धूपनेऽपि च ॥५॥
1. Although Dalhana prescribes the drugs of the Kakolyadi group to be used as Kalka we are inclined to take the sentence to mean that the decoction of those drugs should be used.
अनन्तां कुक्कुटीं बिम्बीं मर्कटीञ्चापि धारयेत् ॥ ६॥
The body of the affected child should be rubbed (Utsadana) with the paste of Vaca and Hingu taken together. The dungs of an owl and a vulture, human hairs, the nails of an elephant, clarified butter, and the hairs of a bull should be mixed together and used for fumigating the child’s body. Ananta, Bimbi, Markati and Kukkuti should be strung together and fastened (as a charm) to the body of the child. 4-6.
पक्कापक्कानि मांसानि प्रसन्ना रुधिरं पयः ॥७॥ भूतौदनो निवेद्यश्च स्कन्दापस्मारिणेऽवटे । चतुष्पथे च कर्तव्यं स्नानमस्य यतात्मना ॥८॥ स्कन्दापस्मारसंज्ञो यः स्कन्दस्य दयितः सखा । विशाखसंज्ञश्च शिशोः शिवोऽस्तु विकृताननः ॥ ९ ॥
The physician (or the votary officiating for him) should worship presiding deity of the disease in a ditch (dug out for the purpose) with the offerings of both cooked and uncooked meat, fresh blood (of a goat), milk, and edibles prepared with the Masa pulse for the ghosts, and the possessed child should be bathed at the crossing of roads by physician observing the necessary fast, etc. with the recital of the following Mantra – “O thou, the trusted and beloved friend of the god Skanda, O Skandapasmara, Othou ugly-faced one whom the world knows by the epithet of Visakha, may shower good to this child in distress.” 7-9.
इति सश्रुत संहितायामुत्तरतन्त्रे स्कन्दापस्मारप्रतिषेधव्याख्यानामैकोनत्रिंशोऽध्यायः ॥ २९ ॥
Thus ends the twenty-ninth chapter of the Uttara-Tantra in the Susruta Samhita which deals with the Therapeutics of an attack of Skandapasmara.
