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Chap. XXXIX. ] Manjishthá, Dádima, Utpala, Priyangu, Elá, Elaváluka, Chandana, Devadáru, Varhistha (Válaka), Kushtha, Haridrá, the two kinds of Parnni and of Sarivâ, Harenuka, Trivrit, Danti, Vacha, Táliśa, Keśara and Málati flowers with milk twice as much as clarified butter, is called the Kalyánaka Ghrita. The range of its therapeutic application includes such diseases as Vishama Jwara, asthma, Gulma, insanity and diseases due to the effect of any poison. It is auspicious and it removes affections due to the evil influences of malignant spirits and demons, etc., dulness of appetite, epileptic fits, senile decay, sterility and diseases of the seminal cord. It invigorates the eye-sight and imparts memory and longevity to the person who uses it. 118.

Mahá -Kalyánaka Ghrita:— A Prastha measure of clarified butter made from the milk of a cow of Kapila species and duly cooked with the Kalka of the preceding drugs and the drugs known as Sarvagandhá (Eládi-gana) and with (dead) gold and gems should again be duly cooked with the Kalka of Sumanah, Champaka, Aśoka and Śirisha flowers and with Nalada and Padma (red lotus) and the polens of Dádima flowers with the milk of a cow of the same species. It should be prepared under the auspicious of favourable astral combinations and lunar planes of both the physician and of the patient and then be duly consecrated by Brámhanas. It is called Mahá-Kalyánaka Ghrita aud may be prescribed for a king. It proves curative in all forms of fever. Its very touch and sight confers bliss and destroys disease. Its use enables a man to live to three hundred years free from disease and decay and to remain invincible against the attacks of all created beings. 119.