The Compendium of Kāśyapa 7.4: ṣaṭkalpādhyāyaḥ

Now next we shall explain the Six Formulations.

Thus indeed spoke the venerable Kaśyapa.

Having approached with deference the sage Mārīca, who was seated, / radiant as the sun and fire, the elder Jīvaka said:

"Venerable sir, for the eye afflicted by eye disease, / when is pacification therapy to be given, and what pacification therapy is beneficial?

And what application is taught therein, and what therein is wholesome or unwholesome?" / Thus asked, the venerable lord answered the auspicious question:

"In children afflicted by eye disease or worn down by eye-drops and the like, / after the cessation of redness, swelling, pain, and blood, after six days,

or when redness and the like have slightly ceased, or when they trouble only slightly, / at that time one should apply the beneficial pacification therapy.

Rheum, smearedness, disturbance of vision, restlessness, / swelling of the eyelids, head disease, and remaining discharge on the eyelashes—

having seen these signs, one should perform the procedure of pacification therapy, / and one should establish the breast-fed child together with the wet-nurse on wholesome food.

Cakṣuṣyā, puṣpaka, mātā, rocanā, then rasāñjana, / and clearing nut as the sixth: learn from me the formulations of these.

For those with eye disease four, five, or six months from birth, / having rubbed [them] with woman's breast milk, one should fill the two eyes.

Or having ground a piece of gold in a bronze vessel with breast milk, honey, and [a piece of] the umbilical cord, / one should fill the eyes; it overcomes all eye disorders.

By these auspicious applications, the two primary applications on the navel and as collyrium / were proclaimed by the sages and by the great sage Kaśyapa.

A physician should collect cakṣuṣyā ripened in autumn and winter, / and should store it well-concealed in a new water-pot.

Then one should prepare up to thirty seeds and ten barleys; / having tied the pūtikā in an earthen saucer, covered and rolled in cow dung,

when the barley is cooked, it is ready; then, having husked it / and ground it with breast milk, one should apply it; the specific [variation] will also be instructed:

when with redness, combined with rocanā; when with discharge, with rock salt; / in rheum, dirt, and swelling, it should be applied as an extract (rasakriyā).

One should apply cakṣuṣyā with puṣpaka, with cow's urine, / and as an extract with rock salt, in chronic eye-disease (pilla), swelling, and sluggishness.

Having rubbed copper and bronze in sour liquid, and likewise black pepper, / combined with cakṣuṣyā, it pacifies these eye conditions.

One should bring together cakṣuṣyā, rocanā, breast milk, and puṣpaka; / this formulation is celebrated as the pacifier of all eye diseases.

Even cakṣuṣyā alone combined with breast milk is praised. / This is the formulation of cakṣuṣyā; learn from me the formulation of puṣpaka:

In a place free of draughts, one should apply purified puṣpaka in the afternoon; / or at night, having filled the two eyes with its dry powder, one should sleep.

Puṣpaka combined with rasāñjana, or with honey, / or combined with breast milk, overcomes all eye disorders.

These same three formulations with breast milk, honey, and rasāñjana / are praised for rocanā for the pacification of all eye disorders.

And these three formulations of rasāñjana are likewise [used] with water; / the formulations of the fruit of the clearing nut are also four indeed.

They pacify eye disease and clarify the eye, / according to the aphorism taught, out of a desire for the welfare of children.

Sweet, spreading, cold, pacifying the three humours, auspicious, / astringent, arresting, unctuous: cakṣuṣyā is beneficial to the eyes.

Dry, hot, bitter, salty, non-stimulating to agni, slimy, dense, / auspicious, destroying evil, rocanā promotes the eyelashes.

Sharp, hot, removing dirt, banishing blood, pitta, and kapha, / swiftly clarifying vision, and finally cold is puṣpaka.

Pacifying the three humours, dry, possessing six tastes and penetrating, / purifying, producing eyelashes, and beneficial to the eyes is rasāñjana.

Astringent, sweet, cold, swiftly clarifying vision, / spreading, gladdening, unctuous: thus they know clearing nut to be beneficial to the eyes.

Now I shall describe this oil called Pāñcabhautika, / proclaimed by all authoritative teachers as promoting the five senses:

Jīvaka and ṛṣabhaka, grapes, licorice, pippalī, balā, / red lotus, Indian nightshade, Indian madder, cinnamon, and hogweed,

sugar, śālaparṇī, medā, false black pepper, blue water-lily, / small caltrops, rock salt, rāsnā, and yellow-berried nightshade—

with equal parts of these, one should cook oil or ghṛta / with four times the quantity of milk; well-prepared, one should store it.

One should administer this as nasal medication according to the instruction for successful treatment; / one is freed from long-standing eye diseases by this nasal medication.

It destroys blurring of vision, opacity, cataract, blepharitis, blindness, agitation of the eyes, / rheum, discharge and redness, swelling, and pain.

Alopecia, premature greying, indralupta, head disease, and facial paralysis, / looseness of teeth, disease of the jaw, and foulness of the microchannels,

sleeplessness, delirium, loss of voice, muteness, dullness, / deafness, lockjaw, and loss of memory it destroys.

The senses become serene; memory, intellect, bodily form, and strength / are increased by this unctuous substance; the Pāñcabhautika is auspicious.

Thus indeed spoke the venerable Kaśyapa.
Thus [ends] the Six Formulations in the Section on Formulations.