Rasamanjari 8

English (machine translation) 8

Language: English

8.1

Rasamañjarī, 8 / Now, one should apply the prescribed collyrium when the impurities are fully matured. / Collyrium is desired at midday in the pre-winter and winter seasons;

8.2

in summer and autumn, it is desired in the forenoon and afternoon; / during the rains, one should apply it when it is not too hot, or in spring at any time.

8.3

Collyrium is not recommended when one is tired, weeping, frightened, has consumed liquor, in fresh fever, / in indigestion, or during suppression of natural urges.

8.4

The physician should make a stick the size of a hareṇu pea for a sharp collyrium; / the measure should be a pea and a half for a moderate one, and double for a mild one.

8.5

Mercury and sulphur swooned with the juice of cāṅgerī / makes a collyrium that gives sight to men and destroys eye diseases.

8.6

Mercury and lead in equal parts, and twice their amount of collyrium [stibnite]; / camphor equal to a fourth part of the mercury: this collyrium is nectar for the eyes.

8.7

Black snake fat, conch, kataka nut, kaṭphala, and stibnite, / [along with] mercury and black pepper: this is supreme for [restoring] sight to the blind.

8.8

Four parts of conch, half that amount of realgar, / half the realgar of black pepper, and half the black pepper of long pepper:

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with water, it destroys cataracts; with whey, it destroys ocular tumours; / with honey, it destroys flat corneal opacities; and with woman's breast-milk, corneal ulcers.

8.10

Having rubbed the spike of apāmārga with honey and rock salt / in a copper vessel, when applied to the eye, it thoroughly destroys eye pain.

With teeth derived from elephants, boars, camels, cows, horses, goats, and donkeys, / together with conch, pearl, and cuttlefish bone, one should powder everything; / a stick made fine destroys [eye disease] and is supreme at eradicating corneal spots.

8.12

Blue vitriol, iron pyrite, rock salt, chebulic myrobalan, conch, realgar, / red ochre, cuttlefish bone, and black pepper: one should powder these.

8.13

Having mixed them with honey, one should prepare that rasakriyā extract for the blind; / it is supreme at curing eyelid diseases, cataracts, corneal clouding, and corneal spots.

8.14

Conch columella, belleric myrobalan pulp, chebulic myrobalan, realgar, / long pepper, black pepper, kuṣṭha, and sweet flag in equal parts:

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having ground them with goat's milk and formed a stick of the prescribed size, / having rubbed a portion the size of a hareṇu pea with water, one should then apply it as a collyrium.

8.16

Cataract, pterygium, corneal clouding, membrane opacity, ocular tumour, / night blindness, and chronic corneal speck: the stick called Candrodayā overcomes them.

8.17

When purified lead is melted, one should add an equal amount of purified mercury; / black stibnite equal to both of them: one should powder all together in one place.

8.18

One should add camphor to this powder in a tenth part. / This collyrium overcomes eye diseases and is nectar for the eyes.

8.19

After eating, if one rubs the palms of one's hands and applies them to both eyes, / diseases that have arisen vanish, and they never occur [again].

8.20

By washing the eyes in the morning with a decoction of the three myrobalans, / that water quickly removes cataracts.

8.21

One should grind equal parts of the three myrobalans and iron powder with water; / with oil equal to both, one should cook it for a moment over a gentle fire.

8.22

One should cook that oil in bhṛṅgarāja juice equal to the oil; / placed in an oiled vessel and buried in the ground, one should dig it up after a month.

8.23

For seven days, one should smear it on the head and wrap it with plantain leaves; / one should remain out of the wind, consume a milk diet, and wash [the hair] with water of the three myrobalans.

8.24

It should be done daily; in seven days, dyeing occurs. / For as long as one lives, there is no doubt, the hairs will be like black bees.

8.25

Kākamācī, barley, jasmine, and then an equal amount of black sesame: / one should extract that oil in a press; with that, hair dyeing occurs.

8.26

A man who regularly bathes with iron slag and āmalakī paste along with hibiscus flowers / destroys gray hairs in this world, just as one bathing in the Gaṅgā [destroys] a flood of hellish sins.

8.27

First the root of kāśmarī, sahacara flowers, and root of ketakī, / iron powder with bhṛṅgarāja, and oil cooked with these along with water of the three myrobalans: / having placed it in an iron vessel and kept it buried in the earth for one month, / hair white as kāśa grass becomes black as a swarm of bees simply from smearing.

8.28

For seven days, one should impregnate pure white sesame seeds with spurge milk; / hairs smeared with their oil will become white; there is no doubt about this.

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Rasamañjarī — Śālinātha, Sanskrit