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60 a point beyond the aforesaid limit of the Kaninaka (might hurt the pupil and) would set up a hœmorrhage and beget a sinus (as well as pain) in the locality. The vegetation or polypus is sure to grow up again to its former size if it is cut off insufficiently. 2. A shreddy or netted Arman in the form of a membranous growth (Jála) in the eye should be made pendent by rubbing it (with Saindhava-53.t) and then cut with a bent Vadiśa instrument at the junction of the Śukla-mandala (cornea) and the Vartma-mandala (conjunctiva or eye-lid). The affected part should then be rubbed with a compound consisting of Yava-kshára, Trikatu and Saindhava-Salt (pounded together) and then (duly) fomented and bandaged up by the skilful physician. Lardaceous or oily (Sneha) application should thereafter be prescribed with due regard to the nature of the place*, the season, the time (day or night) and the strength of the patient, and the incidental wound should be treated as an ulcer. The bandage should be removed after three days and the affected part should be (mildly) fomented with the application of heated palms of the hands and treated with corrective or purifying remedies, 3.

Milk duly cooked with Karanja seed, Ámalaka and Yashti-madhu and mixed with honey (when cold), should be dropped twice a day (morning and evening) into the affected eye in the event of there being any pain in it. A cold plaster composed of Yashti-madhu, polens of lotus (Utpala) and Durvá-grass pasted together with milk and mixed with clarified butter is recommended in such cases to be applied to the scalp. 4.