(Snehana) and Ropana Anjanas:—The action of the satisfactory application of a Prasádana (Snehana) Anjana is to soothe the eye, to impart a healthy tone to the organ of sight, to restore its natural colour and gloss, and to make it strong and unclouded and free from the aggravation of any Dosha. Any excess in the application is followed by results identical with those of excessive application of Tarpana (soothing measures)*[1] to the organ, and the remedy consists in employing mild but parching remedies antidotal to the deranged bodily Dosha (Kapha) involved in the case. The symptoms which mark a satisfactory and excessive application of a Ropana (healing) Anjana, as well as the medical treatment to be applied in cases of excess, are identical with those mentioned in connection with the satisfactory and excessive application of the Prasádana (soothing) Anjanas (respectively). Deficient applications of both the Snehana (soothing) and the Ropana (healing) Anjanas (in respect of ocular affections) are sure to prove abortive in their effects. Care should, therefore, be taken to apply it properly, if it is hoped to get the wished-for result. 40-43.
Thousands of remedial measures and remedies may be devised and employed in the manner of the Puta-páka and other measures on the basis of the fundamental principles herein inculcated. 44.
Now we shall describe the recipes and preparations of several principal Anjanas fit for the use of kings and crowned heads for the purpose of giving strength to the eye-sight and for the amelioration of ocular affections (Kácha, etc.) amenable only to the palliative measures. Eight parts of Rasánjana (Antimony) having the hue of
- ↑ * See S'loka 5 of this Chapter,
