Kanda 1/Sukta 23
(White Leprosy)
Vanaspati Devata, Atharva Rshi
1.
Naktanjåtåsyosadhe
råme krsne asikni ca.
Idam
rajani rajaya kilåsam palitam ca yat.
O
herb, night born you are, energised by the moon. O Rama, Krishna, Asikni,
soothing, dark and dusky species of Rajani, Curcuma Longa, cure this white
leprosy of the patient and give colour where it has been lost to whiteness.
2.
Kilåsam
ca palitam ca nirito nåsayå prsat.
Å två
svo visatåm varnah parå suklåni påtaya.
The leprotic, the white, the spotted,
cure all. Remove the whites so that the original skin colour is restored and
the patient is cured.
3.
Asitam
te pralayanamåsthånamasitam tava.
Asiknyasyosadhe
nirito nåsayå prsat.
Your
capacity to dissolve and resolve is unlimited. Your capacity to absorb is
unlimited. O Asikni, such you are, remove all the white spots from this
patient.
4.
Asthijasya
kilåsasya tanujasya ca yattvaci.
Dusyå
krtasya brahmanå laksma svetamaninasam.
Whatever of leprosy in the skin is born
of the bone, in whatever is born of other parts of the body caused by physical
imbalance of the system, I cure and eliminate by Brahma according to scientific
formula.
Note: Pandit Jayadev in his commentary
on this sukta explains in detail the specific herbs covered by the general
terms Nakta, Rama, Krishna, Asikni, Rajani and Brahma according to Dhanvantari,
famous physician of India and supposed founder of the science of Ayurveda.
Correspondingly, Charaka is known to be the surgeon.
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