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In the language of India: Yogaśataka. / In the language of Tibet: Sbyor ba brgya pa (The Hundred Formulations). / Homage to Bhaiṣajyaguru Vaiḍūryaprabharāja, the Buddha, the Lord of Medicine! / Homage to the noble Nāgārjuna! / Gathering what is essential from endless tantras / In the widely celebrated science of cikitsā, / It shall be bound as a hundred yogas, / The supreme offering to learned vaidyas. / By medicinal yogas like amṛta, / The body will become free of roga. / The vaidya who understands cikitsā / Completely examines the causes and characteristics of roga. / Guḍūcī, mustā, kaṇṭakārī, and śuṇṭhī, / Kaṇṭakārī, mustā, tikta, and parpaṭa, / Vāsā, kaṇṭakārī, śuṇṭhī, and mustā: / The boiled kvātha of these should be drunk for vāta, pitta, and kapha jvara. / Kṣudrā, guḍūcī, śuṇṭhī, and puṣkara: / Made into a boiled kvātha, it is supreme for kapha and vāta, / Cough accompanied by dyspnea, lack of appetite, / Lateral pain, and is also praised for jvara arising from the three doṣas. / Āragvadha, pippalī root, mustā, / Katukā,

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And harītakī: a boiled kvātha of these / Benefits painful feverish diarrhea and jvara combined with kapha and vāta; / It also generates digestive warmth and digests. / Drākṣā, mustā, katukā, harītakī, / Āragvadha, and parpaṭaka: made into a kvātha, / It benefits pitta-born jvara, delirium, fainting, / Dizziness, burning dryness, and excessive thirst. / Kaṇṭakārī, śuṇṭhī, and guḍūcī boiled, / By drinking the kvātha mixed with pippalī, / Colic, cough, chronic fever, anorexia, / Stomach diseases, cold, and dyspnea are eliminated. / Kaṇṭakārī, parpaṭaka, harītakī, / Vāsā, katukā, tikta, and priyaṅgu: / By drinking the boiled kvātha with much sugar added, / Thirst, rakta-pitta jvara, and high fever are eliminated. / This is the cikitsā for curing jvara roga. / Dāruharidrā, triphalā, and viśālā: / Having powdered dāruharidrā and properly boiled it, / By drinking that kvātha combined with honey, / All diseases of frequent urination that have arisen are conquered without exception. / Udīcya, kapittha, ativiṣā, / Mustā, and indrayava made into a kvātha / For fever accompanied by pain, dysentery,

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Benefits diarrhea that has persisted for a long time. / Mustā, śuṇṭhī, together with white ativiṣā, / And guḍūcī in equal parts, boiled in water and drunk, / Will clear diseases of poor jāṭharāgni that are constant, / And also the roga of feverish atisāra. / For skin disease, bellyache, pāṇḍu, / Abdominal distension, catarrh, and kapha obstructing the throat, / Drink punarnavā, deodar, harītakī, / And guḍūcī combined with gomūtra and guggulu. / Mustā, śigru, deodar, danti fruit, / Viḍaṅga, and a kvātha with powder of pippalī, / Will also conquer worms constantly emerging from the anus / And roga arising from kṛmi. / Sūkṣmailā, pippalī, yaṣṭīmadhu, marica, / Aśmabheda, eraṇḍa, vāsā, and gokṣura: / If one drinks a kvātha boiled primarily with śilājatu, / It clears mūtrakṛcchra together with gravel and stones. / Śilājatu, aśmabheda, sūkṣmailā, / And pippalī powder: taken in rice-washing water, / Or if drunk with molasses, / Even mūtrakṛcchra bordering on death will be healed. / Āragvadha, gokṣura, and harītakī, / Kaṇṭakārī, aśmabheda, and vāsaka: / If one drinks the boiled kvātha combined with honey, / Burning and painful mūtrakṛcchra will be released. / Āragvadha, guḍūcī, and vāsā: / If one drinks the kvātha boiled with eraṇḍa oil, / All variations arising from vāta, and blood disorders / Flowing from above, below, or the entire body are progressively conquered. / Taṇḍulīka root and lig bu mig: / If drunk with rice water combined with honey, / It will certainly conquer blood diseases caused by all [doṣas]. / For dyspnea, bhārgī with śuṇṭhī. / The two bṛhatīs, eraṇḍa, kapittha, / Mātuluṅga, aśmabheda, yavakṣāra, hiṅgu, gokṣura, / Saindhava, a kvātha mixed with eraṇḍa oil, / For torment caused by pain in the waist, heart, breast, and male organ. / Hiṅgu, vacā, sauvarcala, śuṇṭhī, / Jīraka, harītakī, puṣkara, and kuṣṭha: / Having made them into powder with each subsequent portion increased, / It is for gulma, chronic jvara, hiccup,

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And roga. / Equal parts of śuṇṭhī, hiṅgu, and rucaka powdered, / Boiled in ginger water, is for kapha and vāta-born [complaints], / Flank, cardiac, back, abdominal colic, and hiccups; / It should be drunk, and likewise with barley broth for constipation. / Bībhītaka leaves, viśālā, cavya, / Citraka, trikaṭu, and salt, predominantly piled up: / By drinking the burnt ash mixed with yogurt, / Ascites, gulma, pāṇḍu, and rectal roga are cleared. / Hiṅgu, vacā, śuṇṭhī, sarjikā, / Sauvarcala, each subsequent doubled, made into a powder, / Mixed with warm water and drunk: diverse hiccup, pain, / Hṛdroga, gulma, and ascending vāta are eliminated. / Śṛṅgī, trikaṭu, triphalā, kaṇṭakārī, / Bhārgī, puṣkara-jaṭā, and the five spices: / Powdered, mixed with warm water and drunk: hiccups, phlegm, / Anorexia, cold, and uncomfortable upward vāta are eliminated. / Jambu, indrayava, arka, śigru, snuhī, marking nut tree, vyāghrī, bṛhatī, / Pāṭhā, kapittha, madder, eraṇḍa root, apāmārga, nimba, citraka, / Vāsā, puṣkara, paṭola, and saindhava: boiling the burnt ashes, / The decoction mixed with the previously taught hiṅgu and so forth should be drunk for abdominal gulma and kapha diseases. / Cavya, sea buckthorn, trikaṭu, together with quince, / Rhododendron, jīraka, vaṃśalocanā, and citraka: / Equal parts of the powder mixed with molasses and the three aromatics: / Praised for hoarseness, cold, kapha, and anorexia. / Rhododendron, cavya, marica equal to both, / Pippalī-mūla, vaṃśalocanā, double; śuṇṭhī triple; / Molasses triple; made into fragrant pills: / Clears cold phlegm, chronic cough, and painful arśas. / Śuṇṭhī, pippalī, marica, nāgakeśara, tejapatra, tvac, / And sūkṣmailā, each powdered sequentially in increasing measure: / Licked with an equal part of sugar, it is for low digestive fire in the colon, / Dyspnea, discomfort, shifting gulma, and hṛdroga. / Saindhava, hiṅgu, triphalā, yavānī, / Trikaṭu, molasses: in equal parts made into pills: / Chewing and relishing them brings satisfaction, / And clears what arises strongly from deficient jāṭharāgni. / Iron powder, trikaṭu, jujube: all equal parts, / Combined with equal powder of mākṣika, to be eaten.

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Drinking buttermilk with grapes afterward / Benefits pāṇḍu roga, causing it to disperse far away. / Śuṇṭhī and pippalī combined with molasses, / The third being harītakī or pomegranate, / Should always be taken for kapha, chronic heat, arśas roga, / And also for constipation. / Powder of śuṇṭhī, mustā, and harītakī / Combined with molasses made into pills: / Cough, dyspnea, and excessive obesity / Will be dispelled by holding and chewing the pill in the mouth. / Nyagrodha, utpala, kuṣṭha, and mākṣika: / Powder mixed with rice flour made into pills: / Chewing the hard [pill] in the mouth quickly destroys / Greatly increasing, intense thirst. / Realgar, pippalī, and marica / Powder, with sour kapittha juice / Mixed with an equal measure of rice flour and mākṣika, / Has the capacity to overcome vomiting more than once. / For bleeding from the nose, dūrvā juice / Or juice of pomegranate flowers should definitely be applied. / Woman's breast milk, lac juice, / Or vīrā with mākṣika also stops hiccups. / Āmalakī, white incense juice, equal parts of sauvarcala: / These mixed and ground in sauvīra, / Quickly eradicates it from the root here, / And such hiccups will not arise again. / Dūrvā, saindhava, cassia tora, and harītakī, / Kutheraka, kāñjika ground in buttermilk: / Smearing with the three or grinding under the breasts / Completely destroys scabies and itching. / Snuhī, citraka, bhṛṅgarāja, arka, / Aśoka bark, kuṣṭha, pungent spices, and gomūtra: / Medicated oil relieves scabies, kuṣṭha, ringworm, / Malignant vraṇa, pruritus, and fissuring. / Guggulu, collyrium, beeswax, sindūra, / And copper sulphate in equal parts, boiled with pungent oil: / For a body dried out by dog-bite itch and scabs, / The power of a single smearing extracts it from the root. / Pūtikā, kuṣṭha, mūrvā, śuṇṭhī, / Lac, mañjiṣṭhā, and haridrā / Boiled sixfold in buttermilk, when ready, / By smearing it eliminates cold and hot jvara. / Kaṇṭakārī, guḍūcī, and vāsaka / Powder boiled in ghṛta, when prepared,

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that / drink [it] for chronic fever, cough, pain, and dyspnea; / it benefits stomach disorders caused by weak jāṭharāgni. / Vāsā, khadira, paṭola, patra, / nimba, tvak, guḍūcī, and tamāla / are ground to powder and boiled with fresh butter; when quickly prepared, / it overcomes visarpa, pittagulma, and kuṣṭha. / By the sixth [preparation], the faults of blood together with a hundred [ailments], / violent pain born of intense agitation in all limbs and the body, / particularly visarpa, alcoholic intoxication, / and the disturbances arising from drunken stupor [are pacified]. / Kaṇṭakārī, nimba, paṭola, / guḍūcī, triphalā, karañja, and vāsā: / cook [their] powder with old ghee according to the ritual; / when quickly prepared, this swiftly overcomes kuṣṭha. / Boil karkuṣmāṇḍa according to the ritual, and having dried it, / boil it in ghee, add sugar, and cook it together with trikaṭu and trugandha. / Administering this subdues bleeding and vāta in children and the aged, strengthens women, / and conquers [disgust for] food and drink, hemoptysis, bilious vomiting, dyspnea, and arśas. / Cow urine, āmalakī, mākṣika, pippalī, / yavaksāra, vidanga, danti, / and kuṣṭha: boil them into a suppository resembling a thumb; / smeared with ghee and inserted into the rectum, it removes its diseases. / The treatment of the body is completed. // Cook equal parts of saffron and sugar in ghee; / instilling it according to rule conquers [pain] arising from vāta and blood, / pain in the eyebrows, temples, ears, eyes, and hemicrania, / as well as disorders caused by the movement of the sun. / Harītakī, bibhītakī, and āmalakī without seeds, / ground with curd in proportions of three, two, and one, or in equal parts, / as a collyrium produces copious tears / and conquers burning and severe agitation of the eyes. / Harītakī, saindhava, and tuttha, / along with red ochre, mixed with water and ground, / when smeared on the outside of the eyes, / will pacify all eye diseases. / Sauvirāñjana, saindhava, and tuttha ground together, / then boiled in ghee and strained through white cloth: / when smeared on the eyes, it definitively overcomes / diseases caused by pitta, redness, itching, and flesh tags.

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Disorders arising from blood are conquered by sugar and sea foam. / Pippalī produced with cow [milk] is for night blindness. / Tuttha and trikaṭu are for dimness of vision; / for white cataracts, [use] mākṣika honey. / Black sulphate, white tuttha, sea foam, / marica, śaṅkha, saindhava, red ochre, / and manohilā in equal parts, mixed with mākṣika and ground, / conquers timira, pterygium caused by rheum, and inflammatory pain. / Guḍūcī, puṣkaramūla, iron dust, viḍaṅga, marica, saindhava, karpūra, / tuttha, stone-lichen, māṅsī, haridrā, gairika, śaṅkha, sea foam / in equal powder, kept in an iron vessel and applied with honey, / is praised when smeared on flesh tags, / timira, cataracts, vascular eruptions, and flesh growths of the eye. / Yaṣṭīmadhu, utpala, sea foam, tvak, puṣkaramūla, gorocanā, mañjiṣṭhā, / māṅsī, candana, śaṅkha, red ochre, bālucara, tuttha, and black sulphate leaves: / all these in equal parts as a collyrium / conquer eye pustules, black eye heat, / bloody tears, cataracts, ocular growths, and pain; it is constantly recommended to apply it. / The treatment for the eyes is complete. // Devadāru, white ativiṣā, together with guḍūcī, / viḍaṅga, katukā, and atis, a decoction of pāṭhā / prepared with cow urine and mixed with honey, / should be drunk for all throat diseases. / Kṣāra, tejovatī, pāṭhā, / tuttha, dāruharidrā, haridrā, and pippalī: / make pills with honey and chew them / in the mouth for all throat diseases. / Dāruharidrā, mustā, jātī flowers, / fresh dīrghapatra, drākṣā, viḍaṅga, and triphalā boiled / and taken with honey will quickly pacify / diseases of the mouth and tongue in the body. / Kuṣṭha, roots of dāruharidrā, tuttha, mañjiṣṭhā, / haridrā, katukā, mustā, pāṭhā, and tejanī, / finely ground, cause loose teeth to become firm / and relieve acute, throbbing pain and bleeding from within. / Sauvīraka, cūkra, wet ginger, mātuluṅga / juice, māṃsa, guggulu, and saindhava, / boiled in hot ghee

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and poured into the ears, removes ear pain. / Vāsā, nimba, paṭola, parpaṭaka, picumarda, cavya, dāruharidrā, / mustā, tikta, puṣkaramūla, kaṇṭakārī, trikaṭu, trāyamāṇā, and candana / prepared in ghṛta are praised for afflictions arising above and below, / pain of the nose and eyes, / skin diseases, jvara, internal abscesses, pain of vraṇa, eye diseases, and cataracts. / Dāruharidrā, viḍaṅga, nimba, parpaṭa, pippalī, kaṇṭakārī, yaṣṭīmadhu, / trāyamāṇā, katukā, triphalā, tikta, vāsā, paṭola, and red mustā: / their powder boiled and prepared in ghṛta is beneficial for the eyes, / for disorders arising from pitta and blood, cataracts, timira, and diseases of the upper body. / Roots of white eraṇḍa, vacā, / śatapuṣpā, bṛhatī fruits, and furthermore / walnut fruits prepared with milk / conquer timira, diseases of the upper parts and main organs, and others. / The second [section], Eradication of Pain, is completed. // Ashes of conch shell and muṣkaka burned with flames of fire are placed in a vessel; / boiled again with water, the ashes [prepared] according to the ghee ritual: / by fumigation with that preparation, vraṇa, inflamed ulcers, swellings, pustules, vessel diseases, / various skin eruptions of the perineum, and chronic neck diseases [are healed]. / Yaṣṭīmadhu together with dāruharidrā, sarala, utpala, / priyaṅgu, white tuttha, and candana / should be boiled and prepared with ghee and milk; / it conquers vraṇa, pain, and burning sensations. / Jātī, nimba, paṭola, pāṭhā, katukā, dāruharidrā, haridrā, / mañjiṣṭhā, guḍūcī, harītakī, puṣkaramūla, beeswax, gairika, yaṣṭīmadhu, and karañja / prepared in ghee heal minor mouth sores, vital-point pain, vascular disease, / shifting ulcers associated with disorders or pain, and sinus tracts. / The third [section], Eradication of Pain, is completed. // White marica

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should be steeped a hundred times in the juice of śirīṣa flowers; / it should be vigorously applied as a drink and collyrium / for one who has fainted from a snakebite. / Peacock bile, taṇḍulīyaka, / and kākaṇḍa, drunk in no small quantity, / swiftly dispel the injury caused by / mobile poisons and the highest immobile poisons. / Ground sesame in ghee, along with jaggery / and an equal part of arka leaves, should be drunk; / just as wind suddenly scatters a mass of clouds, / it will swiftly expel the potent poison of a rabid dog. / Soot of a house along with guggulu, / vājigandhā, and taṇḍulīyaka, / ground with cow urine, removes heart disorders / and immobile and mobile poisons. / Māṅsī, puṣkaramūla, haritāla, kaucikā, guḍūcī, manohilā, gorocanā, padmakesara, / spṛkkā, candana, haridrā, kuṣṭha, śarkarā, lākṣā, stone-lichen, sūkṣmā, keśara, and sarala / in equal parts, with eight parts of white mustard and four parts of nāgakesara flower paste: enjoying and / applying this fully conquers piśāca, jvara, and toxic illnesses, shining like the rising moon. / The fourth tantra, Eradicating Poison Disorders, is completed. // White mustard, triphalā, śirīṣa, kaṭabhī, śvetā, karañja, guḍūcī, / mañjiṣṭhā, the two yellows, trikaṭu, māṅsī, vacā, and hiṅgu, / ground in goat's urine and taken as a drink or otherwise, conquers and destroys / all snakebites, grahas, / murderers, unmatta, piśāca, and rākṣasa. / Bones of a tortoise, peacock feathers, bṛhatī, / nirmālya, viḍaṅga, tvak, vaṃśalocanā, cat feces, vāsā, human hair, snake slough, / elephant tusk, śṛṅgī, hiṅgu, and white marica in equal parts used as incense / is taught to destroy fevers possessed by murderers, unmatta, piśāca, rākṣasa, and gods. / Trikaṭu, realgar, keśara, pippalīmūla, kṣāra, siṃhī, haridrā,

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Kuṣṭha, the two white mustards, ambu, indrayava, garlic, triphalā, puṣkaramūla, katukā, vacā, spang ma, yaṣṭīmadhu, red bāla, realgar, and what is known as cedar (śukpa); / dadhi, Indian spikenard, madhūka, sān, priyaṅgu, ativiṣā, lig bu mig, cavya, together with deodar—these reduced to powder, boiled in ghee and the urine of the eight animals, when drunk, cause bhūtas to flee, and thereby grahas are supremely subdued. / Indian spikenard, yaṣṭīmadhu, gentle fruit, lac, patola leaves, raktapatrikā, vacā, patra, hiṅgu, white mustard, siṃhī, the two yellows, latā, katukā, / poson, trikaṭu, kākaṇḍa, deodar, pi, aṅgagandhā, mārā, / arkoṭa, koṣātakī, white cloth, nimba, guḍūcī, indrayava, / kuṣṭha, śukataru, puṣpa, bāla, yaṣṭīmadhu, aparājitā, / dantī, citraka, kapittha in equal parts, powdered and boiled with urine and ghee; / kept for a long time, applied in order by all, it quickly subdues them. / All grahas of great bhūtas, and insanity caused by them, leprosy, and jvara are declared to be pacified. / The Fifth Tantra on Pacifying Bhūtas is complete. // Yellow dāruharidrā, indrayava seeds, / siṃhī, and yaṣṭīmadhu in equal parts— / decocted, for a young child / it benefits children's disorders and all types of diarrhea. / Kapittha, puṣpa, dhātakī, jala, / together with pomegranate and gajapippalī, / mixed into a decoction with honey (mākṣika), applied as an ointment, / should be administered to children suffering from diarrhea. / Śṛṅgī, pippalī, and ativiṣā made into powder, / to overcome cough, jvara, and vomiting disorders, / taken with honey together with ativiṣā in the same way. / The Sixth Tantra on Eliminating Pediatric Diseases is complete. // Sixty-four palas of āmalakī powder, infused with its own juice, with equal parts of honey and ghee, / eight palas of pippalī, and twice that portion of sugar, placed inside a heap of ash; / taken at the end of summer, one becomes free of grey hair, endowed with good physique, complexion, and eloquence, / disease-free, endowed with intelligence, mental acuity,

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retentive memory, articulate speech, strength, and great fortitude. / Yaṣṭīmadhu combined with honey, ghee, / and milk, taken continually, / gives the body great nourishment, / bringing joy and enabling repeated sexual vigor. / Yaṣṭīmadhu, vaṃśalocanā, rock salt (saindhava), pippalī, / sugar, and excellent triphalā / bestow long life, act as an aphrodisiac, produce great intellect, / and utterly eliminate aging and diseases. / Gokṣura, āmalakī, and guḍūcī made into powder, / taken together with honey and ghee, / acts as an aphrodisiac, dispels afflictions and changes, / maintains black hair, and one lives for a hundred years. / Nimba oil processed according to its nature, / drunk in accordance with proper procedure, / and combined well with milk and ghee for one month, / completely removes grey hair and aging. / Gokṣura, kṣura, the eight roots, / vānarī, nāgabalā, and balā / powdered and made into a milk porridge should be drunk; / through this, one is capable of sexual intercourse a hundred times. / The Seventh [Tantra] on Making One Like a Horse is complete. // Yaṣṭīmadhu boiled as a decoction, containing saindhava, / mixed with powders of indrayava, pippalī, and poson, / together with honey, these are administered to induce vomiting / for throat diseases, mouth ailments, and obstruction of the larynx. / Harītakī decocted in sauvīraka, / with half-powder of dantī and pippalī added to the rim, / together with castor (eraṇḍa) oil, for diarrhea / through this purgative formulation diseases are overcome. / Equal parts of rāsnā and poson, triphalā, guḍūcī, the ten roots, and balā, / ghee, together with saindhava, boiled with māṃsī, with honey and molasses, / śatapuṣpā, guḍūcī, kuṣṭha, kapittha, priyaṅgu, and pippalī, / powder of vacā, kāñjika, milk, and urine—this basti is beneficial for vāta diseases. / Powder of balā boiled in ghee, with aromatic substances, / nourishing ingredients, milk, curd, and sour gruel, / as well as sahā, rāsnā, guḍūcī, / and vārī, boiled separately, subdues vāta. / Combined with fresh ginger or molasses, / or with saindhava and pippalī,

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for diseases of the nose, mouth, neck, cheeks, shoulders, / back, head, eyes, and throat constriction. / The Eighth Chapter on the Five Actions is complete. // For jvara, parpaṭa is predominantly applied; for extreme thirst, āmalakī; and for vomiting, / the five kaṭus; for pain, an anuvāsana enema; for stiffness, girija; and for polyuria, juice of āmalakī. / For vāta diseases, rāsnā; for dropsy and spleen diseases, cow's urine; for catarrh, / pippalī; for palpitations, viḍa; for poison, śukataru; for swelling, guggulu. / Vāsā for rakta-pitta; indrayava / for diarrhea; milk of o se shing and hema for dull aching pain; / for abdominal distension, deodar; for kṛmi diseases, viḍaṅga; / for pāṇḍu, harītakī; and with other grains / triphalā is explained for wasting disease; for all such pains, their juice is taken. / For leprosy, always the juice of khadira; for cough, kaṇṭakārī; / for joint disorders, gokṣura, mura, and the subduer nāgabalā with balā. / For all rasāyana, āmalakī with sugar; for graha afflictions, śilājatu is declared. / The Subsequent Tantra. // Having completely completed the methods of well-proven formulations: / By learned vaidyas who realize these proven objectives— / without a physician who understands, who would see these formulations? / Its meaning will again be briefly explained here: / Suppressing natural urges, fasting, lack of sleep, loud shouting, severe exertion, / riding mounts, pungent, astringent, and rough tastes, / mental anxiety, sexual indulgence, fear, fasting, grief: / in the summer season, vāta is severely aggravated. / Pungent, sour, alcohol, and salty tastes, sharp and hot foods, sesame oil, / anger, burning distress, dried leaves, fear, fatigue, / ash medicine and so forth, eating undigested or incompatible foods: / in the autumn season, pitta is severely aggravated. / Sleeping by day, overly sweet and cold foods, heavy fish meat, / fruit, milk, sugar cane products, / oily substances, overeating, salt, and molasses water: / in the spring season, kapha is severely aggravated. / Thus,

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these are gradually known as the specific faults / that possess all eight harmful qualities. / The manifold diseases, corresponding to the bodily constituents, / should be understood without exception according to their names: / Roughness, contraction, shifting, aching, bluish complexion, / intense limb pain, extension and contraction of limbs, / mental dullness, numbness, stiffness, and thirst— / these are taught by the wise as the functions of vāta. / Secretions, sweating, burning sensation, arising of lust, / foul odor, pus, rapid digestion, and anger, / delirium, fainting, dizziness, and yellowish body color— / these are taught by the wise as the functions of pitta. / Coldness and heaviness of mouth, eyes, and nasal mucus, itching and dullness of the body, / mental dullness, various blockages, / excessive plumpness, salivation and nasal discharge occurring for a long time— / these are taught by the wise as the functions of kapha. / Those who understand these effects caused by them / will recognize that although all diseases have numerous types of names, / some specific variations arise through the power of origin, / through which they pass under various different designations. / Sluggish temperament, an impure mind, / entry of faults, hunger, and passing urine, / heaviness of the abdomen, mental stupor, and lack of appetite— / endowed with these, disease will arise in that person. / Nutritious, warming, stabilizing, aphrodisiac, and strength-producing substances; salt, sweet, sour, and ghee; / bathing, applying heat, basti, using meat and comfortable couches, rubbing all the limbs, / fomentation with oil, soothing with anuvāsana, applying ointments, and so forth— / through these foods, drinks, dwellings, and medicines, vāta is completely pacified. / Bitter, sweet, astringent, cold, fans, remaining in the moonlight at night, / earthen houses, water machinery, playing in water, touching a woman's body, / fresh ghee, milk, first administering purgation to the body and bloodletting— / through these foods, drinks, dwellings, and medicines, pitta is completely pacified. / Rough substances, kṣāra, astringent, bitter, and pungent tastes, vigorous exertion, and

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purges phlegm and mucus. / One should consort with women, exhaust oneself, reduce sleep, play in water, and walk on foot. / Smoke sticks, warming the head, bathing, vamana, fomentation, basti, and so forth, / along with these foods, drinks, dwellings, and medicines, thoroughly pacify kapha. / Consuming suitable food, fasting, drinking hot water, / food and activities that are light, bitter essences, / fomentation free of harshness, relying on digestion, / and likewise cleansing the upper and lower parts of the body. / Early winter, summer, and late winter are the seasons of vāta. / Pitta [is aggravated in] autumn, and during the hot time of summer. / Kapha is aggravated in spring, the time when flowers emerge. / At those times, one should administer beneficial medicines accordingly: / For aggravated kapha, apply vamana; / when manifestations of pitta arise, administer virecana; / the nature of vāta is subdued by anuvāsana; / for conditions arising from their combination, combine those as well. / For vāta, by sour, ghee, salty, / and sweet foods and drinks; / for pitta, likewise by sweet, / bitter, astringent, and cooling things; / for kapha, also by bitter, pungent, / coarse, astringent, and sharp tastes; / consumed in this way, / the roga will be thoroughly pacified. / What other intellects did not teach, and what was taught, / having correctly understood roga by oneself as they are, / medicines were composed for those of lesser intellect, / established concisely as a treatise to bear fruit. / By this exposition of the Yogaśataka possessing supreme virtues, / whatever unsurpassed merit I have obtained, / by that may the roga of infinite living beings / afflicted by manifold roga be eliminated! / The medical treatise known as the Yogaśataka, composed by the noble master Nāgārjuna, is complete. / The great Nepalese paṇḍita, the brāhmaṇa Jetakarṇa, directly expounded the root text and commentary once. Later, the presence of the paṇḍita of eastern India

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Buddhaśrījñāna expounded a small portion of the first part. Then, at the holy realm of Skyi rong, not far from the Phags pa 'jig rten dbang po temple, in the magnificent crystal monastery (Shel gyi gtsug lag khang), the seat of great beings, at the request of the noble ascetic, well-versed in the three piṭakas, the tantras and the ancillary treatises of tantra, and particularly someone who thoroughly understood the textual meaning of the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā, the monk Amogha; the learned translator, the Śākya monk the glorious Nyi ma rgyal mtshan bzang po translated and properly finalized it in collation with three commentaries. / The source of many hundreds of treatises on cikitsā, / possessing various synonyms and diverse meters, / embellished with wondrous ornaments and composed in Sanskrit verses— / by the merit of translating this, may all roga be pacified!

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