Rasamanjari 9

English (machine translation) 9

Language: English

9.1

Rasamañjarī, 9 / Camphor, borax, and mercury in equal parts, agastya juice, and honey: / having triturated them, one should smear the penis, and remain thus for a yāma.

9.2

Then one should wash the penis and make love to a suitable woman; / this retains men's semen, correctly taught by Nāgārjuna.

9.3

The tip of a chameleon's tail, wound around the little finger / with threads passed through a ring, should be kept on; a man does not release semen.

9.4

Having ground lotus seeds with honey, one should smear the navel; / as long as that paste remains, so long does he not release semen.

Having taken a sparrow's egg, one should grind it with butter; / one should smear the feet with it: retention of semen occurs; / as long as he does not touch the ground, so long does he not release semen.

9.6

One should take the right tip of a wild boar's tusk; / when it is bound above the waist, retention of semen occurs.

9.7

One should take a black-coloured snake known by the name of ḍuṇḍubha.

9.8

A man should wear its bone on his waist: he does not release semen; / when it is removed, he releases it. This is declared as an accomplished recipe.

9.9

The root of red apāmārga consecrated with mantras on a Monday / and dug up on Tuesday morning, when bound on the waist, he does not emit semen.

9.10

One pala of poppy [capsules], a decoction of dry ginger, and a sixteenth part of jaggery, drunk at night, / prevents the emission of semen for a man during intercourse, unless he takes sour food.

9.11

Elephant-foot yam or tulasī root: one should eat either with betel; / a man does not emit semen from either one alone; of this there is no doubt.

9.12

One should smear the penis with boar's fat together with honey; / the man's penis becomes thick, firm, and long.

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And the filament of a white lotus ground equally with honey / makes the penis fall limp thereafter, even in sexual intercourse elsewhere, without a doubt.

9.14

A lāṅgalī root definitely dug in under the auspicious asterism Anurādhā, / buried in the place of copulation, causes destruction of virility.

9.15

Turmeric, with powder of six tindu fruits impregnated with goat's urine, / administered in drink and food, brings about impotence in men.

9.16

Powder of sesame and gokṣura cooked with goat's milk, / cooled and combined with honey, destroys impotence when eaten.

9.17

A living spider should be smeared together with honey; / for one smearing the navel with that, incurred impotence is released.

9.18

The juice arising from the mālatī flower alone is a great liquefier; / how much more if it is joined with honey, camphor, and mercury?

9.19

Ginger, sulphur, mustard seeds, and borax, / ground in equal quantities, one should cast into lime juice.

9.20

One should let it stand for three ghaṭikās, or then hold it in the hand; / as many as five women who smell it melt [with desire].

9.21

When mahāriṣṭa fruits and leaves are powdered and combined with honey, / by smearing on the penis, liquefaction occurs in women during sexual intercourse.

9.22

Combined with honey and rock salt, accompanied by pigeon dung: / he whose organ is smeared with this makes a woman act like a slave-girl in sexual intercourse.

9.23

A monkey's organ, camphor, mercury, saffron, thorn apple, and honey: / he whose organ is smeared with this makes a woman act like a slave-girl in sexual intercourse.

9.24

The name situated inside a circle, outside of that four hrīṃs, / outside of that a group of four klīṃs, having inscribed it all with a stylus,

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definitely placed in honey at an auspicious conjunction of asterisms: / this diagram quickly attracts a woman, there is no doubt.

9.26

Sandalwood, tagara, costus, priyaṅgu, and nāgakeśara, / black pepper and tamarind—one should make these into equal parts.

9.27

And one should let it sit for seven days with one's own five bodily excretions; / it should be given in food and drink to a woman or likewise to a man.

9.28

Śaṃkhapuṣpī, madhupuṣpī, likewise kuñcikipatrikā, / joined with white girikarṇī—one should make these into equal parts.

9.29

Joined, one should let it sit for seven days with one's own five bodily excretions; / it should be given in food and drink, an excellent subjugation.

9.30

Having consecrated it seven times with the previously mentioned mantra, one should give it: / taking dust from a donkey rolling about, arising from its body, / likewise the ash of a corpse, combined with a woman's menstrual blood,

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bringing them together, one should cast it at night on her bed or on her seat; / truly aversion arises, as stated in the doctrine of the Mālatī.

9.32

I shall declare another excellent recipe, an ultimate producer of dissension: / two fighting dogs, hostile to one another—

9.33

taking dust from them, the pleasure of women is destroyed; / truly aversion arises, no deliberation is to be made here.

9.34

When washing of the vagina is constantly done with the bark of gooseberry, / even an old passionate woman makes love at will like a young girl.

9.35

Lotus seeds eaten with sugar and lotus water / make the pair of breasts of women exceedingly firm within a month.

9.36

Oil cooked together with a decoction of muṇḍī powder: / for a woman whose youth has fallen, an uplifting of the breasts takes place.

9.37

From the application of an unguent of orpiment powder with that very water, instantly / masses of hair fall out; it performs this wonderful wonder.

9.38

One should burn palāśa, tamarind, sesame, black gram, and conch shell, and apāmārga with pippalī; / from an unguent of its powder with realgar and orpiment, it makes a head hairless in an instant.

9.39

Having ground roots of taṇḍulīyaka with rice-washing water, / drunk for three days at the end of the menses, they make a woman barren.

9.40

Which woman drinks hibiscus flower ground with sour gruel, / drunk for three days during the menses, they make the woman barren.

9.41

When the vaginal orifice is fumigated with neem wood according to rule, / at the end of the menses that woman makes love free from the distress of pregnancy.

9.42

Having taken dhattūra and jasmine flower, placed at the waist, / it certainly prevents pregnancy for widows, courtesans, and other women.

9.43

Powder of nāgakeśara flowers together with cow's ghee, / from its consumption during menses by a woman eating rice and milk, she obtains a son.

9.44

Citron seeds steamed in milk with ghee / make even a barren woman pregnant through drinking.

9.45

One should grind citron seeds together with aloe vera; / it should be given with milk; she obtains pregnancy, without a doubt.

9.46

Pippalī, ginger, black pepper, and saffron / should be drunk with ghee; it is supreme in granting pregnancy to a barren woman.

9.47

A maiden having ground lakṣmaṇā root gathered under Puṣya, / having drunk it at the end of the menses with ghee and milk, would obtain pregnancy.

9.48

I shall declare another excellent recipe by which she becomes fruitful: / uśīra, licorice, lodhra, and also indrayava seeds,

9.49

ghee, sal tree resin, and honey, trāyamāṇā, / and roots of drumstick—one should make these into equal parts.

9.50

Having ground the ingredients, one should then cook them with goat's milk; / the woman should drink it for seven nights as long as the menstrual blood remains.

9.51

Then, when the vagina is purified, one should give the great medicine afterwards; / combined with aloe vera and milk, one should administer it as an errhine and in drink.

9.52

By this she obtains a son, truly worshipped even by the gods; / one should administer garlic combined with milk as an errhine and in drink.

9.53

One should give powder made of aśvagandhā with goat's milk; / barley alkali, viḍaṅga, guḍūcī, and hareṇukā,

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having made all of them into equal parts and finely powdered, / having drunk this, that woman will obtain a son, there is no doubt in this.

9.55

Asafoetida, and śatavīryā, pomegranate, likewise rock salt, / the three pungents, dill, nāgapuṣpa, and śatāvarī,

9.56

licorice, and jasmine: one should give karṣa doses; / it should be given with milk to the woman and to the man.

9.57

For three days, however, she should eat rice and milk; / having eaten it, a pregnancy is obtained for women, there is no doubt in this.

9.58

Arka root, priyaṅgu, safflower, nāgakeśara, / balā, and atibalā: [with] goat's milk, drunk for three days.

9.59

[These] purify the vagina; then one should give the great medicine: / blue lotus, tagara, kuṣṭha, liquorice along with sandalwood,

9.60

ground with goat's milk, one should cause to be given for five days. / Lakṣmaṇā combined with cow's milk one should give to her as a drink;

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by means of that she obtains a son endowed with auspicious marks and very learned. / When the blood has ceased and the vagina is cleansed, lakṣmaṇā likewise with milk

9.62

should be administered as an errhine and as a drink; the woman obtains a son. / White arka, white kṣudraṇī, and white girikarṇikā,

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lakṣmaṇā, and sterile karkoṭī should be given combined with cow's milk; / when taken as an errhine and as a drink, she conceives a child through sexual union.

9.64

Earth from a potter's hand arrests a threatened miscarriage; / or having drunk honey and goat's milk, or white adrikarṇikā.

9.65

Lalanā, sugar, pāṭhā, and the tuber along with honey, / when consumed, indeed arrests a falling embryo situated in the womb.

9.66

Equal parts of sugar-combined rice flour / drunk in a decoction of udumbara root protects the embryo well.

9.67

Roots of citron [and] madhuka mixed with honey / should be drunk together with ghee; the woman gives birth easily.

9.68

With the tuber of lāṅgalī rubbed in husk-water one should smear / the two feet; the pregnant woman quickly attains delivery.

9.69

For those women whose menses do not appear at the fertile period, / for them one should carry out this treatment, and menses will appear again:

9.70

long pepper, barley alkali, viḍaṅga, fruit of Cupid [dhatūra], / and bitter pumpkin seed, the physician should make into a pill.

9.71

And muṇḍī combined with milk, [placed by] the auspicious woman at the opening of the vagina; / within three, five, or seven nights menses occurs without fail.

9.72

I shall explain concisely the pediatrics declared by Rāvaṇa: / the offering materials, the directional quarter, the division, the mantra, and the symptoms of those seized by them.

9.73

On the first day, month, or year, [she] seizes the child; / she is proclaimed as the yoginī named Mandā; her symptoms:

9.74

On the second day, month, or year, she seizes the child; / the yoginī named Sunandā; first fever arises,

9.75

contraction of hands and feet, eye disease, excessive vomiting, / fearful state, and emaciation: such are the symptoms of one seized by her.

9.76

On the third day, month, or year, she seizes the child; / the yoginī named Pūtanā; aching of the limbs, fever, anorexia,

9.77

delirium, swelling of the neck, vomiting, and such are the symptoms. / And in the afternoon one should cast the offering in the western direction for five nights.

9.78

On the fourth day, month, or year, she seizes the child; / named Biḍālī; when seized by her, there is eye pain, fever, anorexia,

9.79

stretching of limbs, and so forth; one should cast the offering with discoloured [food]. / On the fifth day, month, or year, she seizes the child;

9.80

she is proclaimed as the yoginī Nartakī; her symptoms: / Now, on the sixth day, month, or year, she seizes the child;

9.81

the yoginī named Śakunī; cough, dyspnoea, anorexia, fever, / contraction of the hands, feet, etc., and pain in the eyes: such are the symptoms.

9.82

One should throw an offering to her for five nights in the western direction. / On the seventh day, month, or year, Śuṣkāśivā seizes the child;

9.83

weeping, trembling, fever, wasting, and so on are the symptoms. / When five offerings are given in the western direction, the child becomes comfortable.

9.84

On the eighth day, month, or year, Jṛmbhakā seizes [the child]; / the moment one is seized by her, fever arises first,

9.85

headache, eye disease, and the rolling of the eyes. / Resorting to the southern direction, one should give an offering to her.

9.86

On the ninth day, month, or year, she seizes the child; / the yoginī named Acintā; aching of the limbs, headache, and eye pain,

9.87

vomiting, delirium, and so forth are the symptoms of one seized by her. / Resorting to the northern direction, one should give an offering to her.

9.88

On the tenth day, month, or year, she seizes the child; / the yoginī renowned by name as Kāpālikā; her symptoms:

9.89

weeping, trembling, vomiting, fever, debility, and eye pain. / Resorting to the eastern direction, one should cast the offering for five nights.

9.90

On the eleventh day, month, or year, Lipsitā seizes [the child]; / trembling of the limbs and acute fever are the symptoms of one seized by her.

9.91

On the twelfth day, month, or year, she seizes the child; / the yoginī named Pītalī; weeping, pain, fever,

9.92

sleepiness, faint voice, yellow colour, vomiting, and lack of appetite. / Resorting to the northern direction, one should cast the offering for seven nights.

9.93

On the thirteenth day, month, or year, she seizes the child; / [named] Bhadrakālī, [producing] fever, trembling of the left hand,

9.94

pain, anorexia, deep sighing, yellow body, and strange movements. / Resorting to the eastern direction, one should give an offering to her.

9.95

On the fourteenth day, month, or year, she seizes the child; / indeed the yoginī named Tārā; intense fever, wasting, and anorexia,

9.96

eye pain and twitches; one should bring the offering to the west for her. / On the fifteenth day, month, or year, she seizes the child;

9.97

the yoginī named Śarvarī; dyspnoea, cough, anorexia, fever, / such are the signs when seized by her; one should cast the offering in the south.

9.98

On the sixteenth day, month, or year, the yoginī seizes [the child]; / Kumārī; rolling of the eyes, fever, wasting, and restless movements.

9.99

Resorting to the south-western direction, one should cast the offering for seven nights, / and afterwards the knower of mantras should bathe the child with pacifying water.

9.100

Having fashioned the form of the goddess from clay drawn from both banks of a river, / worship should be performed with frankincense, flowers, unbroken grains, and so forth,

9.101

vadas, laddus, cakes, top portions of cooked rice, jaggery, curd, / and four-coloured flags, lighted lamps, flowers, and sandalwood.

9.102

One should worship for all diseases in the afternoon according to the appropriate offering; / everywhere the presentation of offerings takes place according to different names.

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Rasamañjarī — Śālinātha, Sanskrit