Anandakanda 1.15

Āk, 1, 15
<Rejuvenation therapies using divine herbs>
Śrī Bhairavī:
O Lord devoid of impurity and illusion, remover of senescence, birth, and disease!
By your grace the rejuvenation therapy of mercury and other substances has been made known.

Beyond this as well, O master, I wish to hear something, O lord:
the rejuvenation therapy using divine herbs, which is applicable through easy means.

Tell me of that divine sort which bestows all alchemical perfections.
Śrī Bhairava:
<1. Procedure of the Brahmavṛkṣa; Procedure of the oil of the Brahmavṛkṣa>
I shall describe the rejuvenation therapy using divine herbs, beginning with the brahmavṛkṣa.

There, first hear the rejuvenation therapy of the brahmavṛkṣa, O goddess:
one should take the seeds of the brahmavṛkṣa and husk them;

having dried them thoroughly in the fierce sun, one should make them into a fine powder.
One should triturate it with āmalakī fruit or with milk for seven days;

one should cast them into an oil-press apparatus, and then extract its oil.
The oil extracted in this manner is a destroyer of defects and a rejuvenation therapy.

A prastha of the oil produced from seeds of the brahmavṛkṣa and an equal amount of ghee,
placed together in an unctuous vessel, one should deposit in a heap of grain.

For a month or half a month, O ruler of the gods; from that one should take out the oil.
Having one's body purified by purgation and the like, having worshiped the fire, the guru, and the twice-born,

and having mixed two palas of cow's milk and just one niṣka of that oil,
one should drink it at dawn, eating wholesome food and having one's senses conquered.

In this way, on the second day as well, or skipping one day at a time successively,
there should be an increase by one niṣka in this manner, up to sixteen niṣkas.

This indeed is spoken of as the maximum dose of this oil.
Upon merely drinking it, fainting occurs for a moment; one should sprinkle his face.

When he is awakened, one should give him rice with milk accompanied by ghee and sugar.
By using the oil in this manner, a man becomes wise in a month;

grasping [everything] at once, of fine complexion, and remaining as though sixteen years of age;
in the second month, having the strength of an elephant, freed from all diseases;

having strength equal to Indra, resolute; and in the fourth month gradually
having an adamantine body, divine sight; in the fifth, he becomes an aerial wanderer,

endowed with the supernatural faculties such as atomicity, moving everywhere, enduring for all time;
in the sixth month, he is himself creator, enjoyer, and destroyer, like the triple deity;

from use for one year, O goddess, he becomes Sadāśiva in visible form.
As long as one lives on the oil, so long is one's food rice with milk.

Having one's limbs purified by vomiting and the rest, and having performed the worship of physicians and the twice-born,
in the morning, a kuḍuba of cow's milk and a kuḍuba of oil born from kiṃśuka seeds,

obtained as before—having united the two, one should drink them.
Upon merely drinking that, fainting will occur; one should make him lie on ashes.

He will awaken in seven nights, lying on the bed as though bound;
he cannot move his limbs, and his eyes become flickering.

When the oil has reached digestion, consciousness returns, O Bhairavī;
cow's milk must be given to him every day for ten days.

He sheds the skin from his body just as a serpent sheds its slough;
he must eat only milk continuously for twenty-one days.

He becomes master of speech, resolute, retaining what is heard in an instant,
hearing from afar, having divine sight; the wise man lives for a day of Brahmā.

<Procedure of the shoots of the Brahmavṛkṣa>
Under an auspicious asterism, one should gather the shoots of the brahmavṛkṣa,
free from worms and insects, tender and auspicious.

One should dry them in the fierce sun; powdered and filtered through cloth,
one should make it, and carefully deposit it in a new vessel.

With his body purified by emetics and the like, chaste and with senses controlled, / abstaining from alkali and sour food, eating milk with cooked rice of the śāli type,

he should drink warm water constantly and sleep in a place shielded from wind. / He should take a dose of one karṣa for a month, mixed with cow's buttermilk.

In the second and third [months], there should be an increase by one karṣa respectively; / in this way, until the end of sixteen months, he should drink one kuḍava mixed with buttermilk.

A man who thus takes it constantly, having curly and lustrous hair, / possessing the strength of an elephant in rut, will live for a day of Brahmā.

<Preparation of the Flowers of the Brahmā Tree>
A wise man should dry the flowers of the brahmavṛkṣa in the shade, / powder them, sift through a cloth, and deposit [the powder] into a new jar.

Twenty palas of the flower powder and twenty-four [palas] of cow's ghee / mixed together in one [vessel] should be placed within a heap of grain.

He should extract it at the end of a month, dividing it into fourteen portions. / Each one should be consumed day by day; in this manner, it lasts for three months.

He should eat from a copper dish, avoiding salt, sour things, and the like; / dining on rice boiled in milk, when afflicted with thirst he should drink a decoction of khadira.

After three months, his body becomes like a thunderbolt, there is no doubt of this; / having the strength of ten thousand elephants, resolute, he will move with the speed of wind.

Through its use for a year, even his feces and urine / can transmute all base metals and turn them into gold.

He will live for a day of Brahmā and rejoice in the direct presence of the deities.
<Preparation of the Seeds of the Brahmā Tree>
One should powder the seeds of the brahmavṛkṣa and place them into an earthen jar.

Combined with honey, ghee, and sugar, he should place it in a heap of grain. / Taking it out after a month, every day one dose of a single karṣa

a purified soul should consume, and follow it by drinking cow's milk. / Until the increase reaches a pala, only that much [should be increased], no more.

In this way, after one year, perfection free from death is achieved; / purified, resembling an elephant in strength, he will live for a day of Brahmā.

<Preparation of the Bark of the Brahmā Tree>
One should make a fine powder of the bark of the brahmavṛkṣa, / triturate it with cow's milk, and drink one pala every day.

With senses controlled and eating wholesome food, if the wise man does this for a year, / he will live for ten thousand years and certainly become an adept.

<Preparation of the Resin of the Brahmā Tree>
Brāhmī, licorice, ghee, and the resin derived from the brahmavṛkṣa, / he should consume in equal parts, and follow by drinking one pala of milk.

Through this regimen for one year, auspicious to behold, pure, / the wise man will live for a day of Brahmā, free from wrinkles and gray hair.

<Preparation of the Five Parts of the Brahmā Tree>
One should collect the five parts of the brahmavṛkṣa according to rule, / dry them in the shade, powder them, and filter [the powder] through a cloth.

Purified, he should lick the measure of a karṣa with honey and ghee at sunrise; / after a year, a man becomes free from wrinkles and gray hair.

<Preparation of Āmalakī Concealed in the Root of the Brahmā Tree>
One should split a very thick and tall brahmavṛkṣa, / and leaving three hastas at the root, hollow out a cavity at its top.

One should fill it with ripe āmalakī fruits, O beloved, / and close that cavity with the remaining cut wood.

One should wrap it well with kuśa grass and smear it from the root to the top / with clay and cow dung; then the intelligent man should wrap it with a cloth.

The wise man should smear it again with clay and cow dung, and dry it; / when it is completely dry, he should surround it on all sides with dried cow-dung cakes,

and burn it. When it has cooled down, he should take out that dense fruit; / he should put that āmalakī fruit into a vessel filled with honey and ghee.

Dwelling happily in an underground cellar or in a place sheltered from the wind, / he should eat as much as desired every day, living on milk, with senses controlled.

After six months, he can see cracks and treasures beneath the earth; / he sheds his skin like a snake and lives for a yuga of Brahmā.

<2. Regimen of the White Brahmā Tree; Regimen of the Five Parts of the White Brahmā Tree>
One should powder the five parts of the white palāśa and dry them, O beloved, / in the shade; sifted through cloth, one should lick it with honey, O beloved.

In the measure of a karṣa, within three months a man conquers old age and death; / and after a year, endowed with the lifespan of Brahmā, an adept, he can go everywhere.

<Regimen of the Seeds of the White Brahmā Tree>
One should gather seeds of the white palāśa, one by one; / [taken] daily with goat's ghee, within a month one conquers death and old age.

After a year, he will live for a yuga of Brahmā, foremost among adepts. / Those virtues that were spoken of regarding the oil, bark, leaves, and other parts of the red palāśa,

those same qualities exist in the white palāśa, granting perfection to the practitioner.
<Attainment of the Regimen of the Brahmā Tree>
I shall declare the mantra for the success of the regimen of the brahmavṛkṣa:

“Oṃ hrīṃ make nectar, make nectar, reverence to Amṛtamālinī!” / First, one should perform a preliminary repetition of twenty thousand [times]. / Holding a vessel of nectar, a boon, a rosary, and the gesture of knowledge with her lotus-hands,

bearing a pearl noose, one should meditate on Amṛtamālinī. / At the time of consumption, he should take it seven times [reciting it] one hundred and eight times.

At the times of lunar and solar eclipses and the like, [he should recite it] eight thousand times. / Without the mantra there can be no success, even in hundreds of millions of kalpas;

with the mantra, swift success occurs; one should proceed accompanied by the mantra.
<3. Regimen of Muṇḍī>
Now I shall declare the muṇḍī, which grants the practitioner his desired goals.

It is of four kinds: red, yellow, white, and black. / When the moon is in Puṣya on a Sunday, or on a full moon, or in Revatī, or in Śravaṇa,

or at the time of an eclipse and the like, or during auspicious astrological conjunctions, one should take / that marsh-dwelling muṇḍinī, preceded by oblations and worship.

Having bathed, silent, uttering the mantra, he should gather it: / “Oṃ to the Nectar-Born, make nectar, make nectar, svāhā hrīṃ saḥ!” / One should perform a preliminary repetition of twelve thousand of this mantra.

The root, stem, fruit, flower, and leaf are declared to be the five parts. / He should take the muṇḍī with all five parts, wash it thoroughly with cold water,

dry it in the shade, and then powder it; / he should purify it with a cloth and store it in a new jar in due order.

Having a purified body, a man should drink one karṣa of that powder with cow's milk; / and when the medicine has digested, he should first drink ghee.

Then he should eat [a meal] devoid of salt, oil, sour things, and the like: / cooked with ghee, slightly sweet, rice made of sixty-day grain with plenty of milk.

After six months, perfection arises: he sheds his skin like a snake; / freed from gray hair and the like, he gains divine vision and a firm body.

With the strength of an elephant in rut, resolute, youthful, and the embodiment of pride, / after one year all perfections arise, and a man attains the lifespan of Brahmā.

That muṇḍī, consumed with ghee, gives the aforesaid fruit.
<4. Devadālīkalpa>
Now I shall declare, O goddess, the devadālī rasāyana.

Devadālī is considered to be threefold: white, black, and yellow. / The white alleviates disease; the black and yellow especially [excel]

in rasāyana and yield results in operations upon metals, O Pārvatī. / During solar or lunar eclipses, on a full-moon day, [or] on a deity-worship [festival],

on the thirteenth day, or on the fifth day of the dark fortnight, according to rule, / on an auspicious day and under an auspicious lunar mansion, one should gather it accompanied by mantra:

“Oṃ, to the culmination of the troop of immortals and the troop of Rudras, svāhā!” / Having recited [this] one hundred and eight times, one should gather it preceded by an offering. / “Oṃ, obeisance to Lord Rudra, phaṭ svāhā!” / [This is] the practitioner's mantra for tying the topknot. / A wise person should dry the five parts of the devadālī in the shade.

He should filter it thoroughly with a cloth and consume it with cow's milk. / Then a wise person should cook it in an iron vessel over a gentle fire.

With a purified body, one should lick one karṣa with honey and ghee for seven days. / His intellect becomes divine, and diseases are removed by its use for a month.

By eating it for two months alone, he certainly perceives hidden treasures and the like. / Juice of myrobalan fruit, honey, devadālī juice, and ghee:

each should be one karṣa in measure, and he should drink it daily at a light meal. / After twenty-one days he becomes intelligent, retaining whatever he hears.

One should pulverize the five parts of devadālī and sift it with a cloth. / One should drink it continually with auto-urine, milk, or cow's urine.

It bestows perfection as before and cures all skin diseases. / It destroys jaundice, spleen disorders, colic born of vāta, and anal fistulae.

Its juice, combined with sulfur, liquefies all metals; / and it binds mercury thoroughly, [and] swoons it immediately in equal proportion.

Gandharvalajjā, gāndhārī, and juice of devadālī— / an ointment [of these] with sheep fat arrests blazing fire.

One should grind the seeds of devadālī along with jaggery; / from that he should make a suppository: it destroys piles in anal caruncles.

If a man anoints his eyes with the juice of devadālī, / he perceives hosts of spirits, and they grant him everything.

Ghee, juice of myrobalan fruit, juice of devadālī, honey, / and the juice of lakṣmaṇā: one should drink all this to the measure of one pala.

Taken for three days during the fertile period, it bestows sons on women. / One should lick devadālī juice and milk together in equal parts with honey and ghee:

the seed of a man with deficient semen becomes capable of generating a fetus. / Bhṛṅgarāja, vākucī, citraka, sarpākṣī, [and] devadālī:

one should drink one karṣa [of these] daily with auto-urine, O Maheśvarī. / He sees crevices in the earth; after a year he conquers death and senescence.

One should drink one pala of punarnavā and devadālī mixed with milk. / One should drink devadālī with one pala of sarpākṣī using auto-urine.

Perfection arises just as before, very swiftly, O fair-faced woman! / One should drink one pala of devadālī and nirguṇḍī with auto-urine:

after one year it destroys senescence, and he lives as long as the moon and stars endure. / “Oṃ, make immortality, make it, to the Lord of Immortality, svāhā!” / One should first recite this mantra when using devadālī.

<5. Śvetārkakalpa; Śvetārkamūlakalpa>
Now I shall declare the procedure for the root of white arka, listen! / Having gathered the root of white arka under the Puṣya asterism, discarding the woody part,

a wise person should dry the purified bark in the shade, sift it with a cloth, / and make a powder; one karṣa is to be consumed with cow's milk.

With two palas [daily] for six months, it removes all diseases and senescence; / after one year he lives for three days of Brahmā, there is no doubt.

<Śvetārkaparṇakalpa>
Equal parts of expressed juice of white arka leaves and bhṛṅgarāja juice / should be combined and dried in the sun until it becomes a powder.

One should cook that in four parts of cow's milk over a gentle fire / until it becomes a bolus; that is to be consumed in the measure of one karṣa.

One pala of cow's milk is to be drunk [afterwards]; he obtains the fruit as before. / “Oṃ āṃ, O goddess garlanded with swans, svāhā!” This is the consumption mantra.
<6. Hastikarṇīkalpa; Hastikarṇīpatrakalpa>
Then, on the thirteenth day coinciding with Monday, one should gather [it]:

one should powder the shade-dried leaves of hastikarṇī. / One pala is to be consumed with cow's milk; after a year he conquers death and senescence.

The mortal lives for a lifespan of Brahmā, served by Siddhas, Sādhyas, and others.
<Hastikarṇīpañcāṅgakalpa>
One should dry the five parts of hastikarṇī in the shade.

For one month he should eat one karṣa daily with water, / [and then] with sauvīra vinegar, curd, milk, ghee, buttermilk, and honey, in succession,

each consumed for a month; after a year he attains perfection. / The adept lives for a day of Brahmā, possessing an adamantine body and great strength.

“Oṃ, to the immortal, I seize the nectar, svāhā!” / This is the gathering mantra. / “Of those born in the hut of immortality, make immortality, make it, svāhā!” / With this mantra he should worship [it]. / “Oṃ, to the one born of nectar, make immortality, make it, obeisance continually, obeisance!” / This is the consumption mantra.
<7. Rudantīkalpa>
Now I shall declare the divine, supreme procedure for rudantī. / With leaves resembling the leaves of chickpea and with similar flowers,

it is renowned by the name rudantī, raining water from underneath, / as if weeping upon seeing people dying, afflicted with illness.

It should be known as fourfold: yellow, red, white, and black. / In the bright fortnight on an auspicious day, one should gather that rudantī.

The wise person should dry it along with its root in the shade and sift it through cloth. / With a purified body, one should consume the measure of a cat's paw print.

Daily it is taken with honey and ghee, followed by a meal accompanied by milk and ghee. / Once it is digested, remaining self-controlled, after a year he is endowed with radiance and strength.

A mortal attains supreme lifespan, freed from senescence and disease.
One should prepare the oil from the roots of kataka in a pātālayantra apparatus,

Or in a garbhayantra, washed fifty times with water
or with coconut water; having thus performed the purification of the oil,

And one should powder the shade-dried five parts of rudantī.
Half that amount of musalī powder, [and] half the musalī, three palas [of another drug],

Mixing these three powders, one should lick one karṣa daily
with kataka oil, purified; its increase may proceed up to a pala.

After one year, he possesses an adamantine body and lives for a day of Brahmā.
<8. Regimen of Nirguṇḍī; Regimen of Nirguṇḍī Root>
Now I shall proclaim the auspicious, divine, supreme regimen of nirguṇḍī:

On a Sunday with the Puṣya asterism in the morning, the bark from the root
of nirguṇḍī should be taken and dried in the shade; its powder, just one karṣa,

Purified, one should drink daily with a pala's measure of goat urine;
after six months one attains a divine body endowed with the strength of a rutting elephant.

That powder, stirred with honey, ghee, and milk, placed in a greased vessel
and covered, one should bury within a heap of grain for one month.

Having taken it out at the end of the month, one whose body is purified should always consume
two palas for the span of a year; he shall live as long as the moon and the stars.

Or else, one should drink half a pala of its powder with ghee;
alchemical perfection arises just as before, freed from senescence and disease.

Equal parts of vacā, muṇḍī, nimba, varā, guḍūcī, and bhṛṅgarāja:
combining an equal share of these with powder of nirguṇḍī root,

One should lick one pala daily from the hand with honey and ghee;
his lifespan becomes three days of Viriñci, devoid of death and senescence.

The powder of nirguṇḍī root, equal in parts with krimighna and the acrids:
the wise man, purified, should drink daily one pala with goat's milk;

He is freed from wrinkles and gray hair, and becomes disease-free after three months.
<Regimen of Nirguṇḍī Leaf>
One should cook the juice extracted from nirguṇḍī leaves in a vessel over a mild fire.

When it has reached the consistency of molasses, one should drink just one niṣka of it;
each day there is an increase of a niṣka until it becomes two palas.

Thereby vomiting and purging occur; worms thoroughly exit
from the anus, belonging to the body, and from the mouth, nose, eyes, and ears.

Wasting, kuṣṭha, and other diseases are destroyed after seven days;
in three months it destroys senescence; one lives for three hundred years.

<Regimen of the Five Parts of Nirguṇḍī>
The powder of the five parts of nirguṇḍī consumed with sesame oil,
ranging from a niṣka up to a pala, overcomes senescence within three months.

The eighty diseases arising from vāta humor, kuṣṭhas, as well as throat diseases,
and affections of the mouth, dental inflammation, and so forth, he conquers by chewing its leaves.

The powder of the five parts of sindhuvāraka soaked in honey and ghee,
one should lick one pala in the morning; then, when it is digested, cow's milk

He should drink according to the strength of the digestive fire, and eat gradually as the fire allows;
the wise man should reside in a windless place; he attains alchemical perfection after a year.

For one whose body is perfected by the former method, poison and mercury are digested.
The five parts of sindhuvāraka gathered at proper times as available,

Dried in the shade, the powder combined with the three sweets and triphalā,
one should then place in a greased vessel within a heap of grain for three months.

The intelligent man should consume [it] from a niṣka up to a pala, attracting [health];
he is entirely freed from all diseases, devoid of senescence and death.

"Oṃ, homage to the illusory Gaṇapati, to Kubera, svāhā!"
This is the mantra for ingestion.
<9. Regimen of Śunakaśālmalī>
Now I shall proclaim, O Goddess of the gods, the regimen of śunakaśālmalī:
Having bathed on the eighth day of the dark fortnight, composed at night,

And having wrapped the śunakaśālmalī tree with black threads,
the steadfast man should chant the Aghora mantra there eight thousand times.

<9. Regimen of Śunakaśālmalī Root>
The bark of its root is to be taken; then one should dry it in the shade;
having made it into a powder, one should eat pala after pala in the morning with honey and ghee.

After a year, freed from wrinkles and senescence, he lives for a day of Brahmā.
<Regimen of Śunakaśālmalī Flower>
One should cook eighteen of its flowers in eight palas of cow's milk.

Discarding the flowers, he should drink the milk, and do so every day;
in a month he attains a divine body and lives for three days of Brahmā.

<Regimen of Śunakaśālmalī Fruit>
One should cook its fruit in cow's milk in a magnetic iron vessel;
discarding the fruit, he should drink the milk; when the fire is ablaze, his food is milk.

By a six-month course of application, a man becomes possessed of a divine body;
he lives until the end of the kalpa, swift as the wind, possessed of great strength.

From his urine and feces, copper certainly becomes gold.
<10. Regimen of Pathyā; Origin of Pathyā>
Now I shall declare the peerless regimen of pathyā,

By which diseases are destroyed and desires are fulfilled.
Having drunk the nectar, the lord of Śacī drank together with Śacī in joy.

Drops of nectar that fell from their delighted lotus-like mouths
arose on the earth in seven forms, of great potency, granting firm lifespan.

They arose in seven regions, bearing seven kinds of names:
in the Vindhya region, in Kānyakubja, in Saurāṣṭra, on the Himalaya mountain,

On the bank of the Gaṅgā, in Kāśmīra, and in the Vainya region, respectively:
Vijayā, Rohiṇī, Pūtā, Trivṛt, Amṛtā,

Jīvantī, and Abhayā arose in each region respectively;
the superior, middling, and inferior kinds that are self-ripened are indeed good.

In harītakī five tastes are present, devoid of the salty:
sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, and astringent, respectively,

Are the tastes in marrow, sinew, stalk, bark, and flesh respectively.
With round-gourd shape, circular, four-angled, thin-skinned,

Five-ribbed, fleshy, golden-colored, and black are they described in order.
That which sinks in water is to be taken: heavy, oily, and dense.

That measuring two karṣas is superior; that measuring one karṣa is middling;
that which is half a karṣa is inferior; thus the fruit of pathyā is declared.

Infested with worms, burnt by fire, damaged, soaked in muddy water,
cracked, and residing in saline soil: such harītakī must be avoided.

<Regimen of Pathyā>
In a pure place, on an auspicious day, during an eclipse of the moon or the sun,
having first worshiped it with fragrances and other offerings, having prayed, the wise man should recite:

Having repeated the Gāyatrī a hundred times, he should thus gather the pathyā.
Or [he takes] the auspicious [harītakī] with dried ginger, or with molasses, or with rock salt.

He should use an appetizer; thereby it effects the destruction of undigested toxins. / With honey, or with jaggery, or with long pepper, or with dry ginger,

or with rock salt, it should be consumed daily with a purified body. / [Taking] two chebulic myrobalans [daily] for twelve years, he thereby lives for a hundred years.

Taking a two-niṣka powder of chebulic myrobalan and one niṣka of iron calx, / stirring it with cow's ghee, one should smear it inside a lodestone vessel.

One should keep the vessel inverted day and night. / In the morning, with a purified body, it should be licked; the wise person conquers senescence and death.

Having first made a hollow in a silk-cotton tree, one should place the harītakī fruits inside it. / After up to six months, they should be taken out, one by one each day.

With purified body, one should consume harītakī; death and senescence do not touch him.
<11. The procedure for āmalakī>
Now, O mistress of gods, I shall proclaim the procedure concerning āmalakī.

Beginning in Caitra, one should have fully ripened fruits gathered from the dhātrī tree. / They are to be gathered like harītakī, dried in the shade, and powdered.

One karṣa of the fruit taken at night with water, ghee, or honey / increases the digestive fire and produces clarity of the senses.

One should lick dhātrī powder and iron calx stirred with honey and ghee; / it destroys wrinkles, grey hair, and death after a year; the procedure is as before.

Cooked with milk, it should be consumed; as before, it bestows alchemical perfection. / One should lick dhātrī powder and bhṛṅga powder together with honey and ghee;

freed from wrinkles and grey hair, he certainly becomes [youthful] after a year. / One should lick the powder of nimba and āmalakī together with honey and ghee;

and the fruit is as before, O goddess; no doubt should be entertained here.
<12. The procedure for triphalā>
Now, O goddess, I tell you the rejuvenation therapy of triphalā.

One part harītakī, two parts vibhītaka, / and four parts dhātrī: one should powder all together in one place.

With pippalī, bamboo manna, rock salt, or liquorice, / or with honey, ghee, vacā, or sugar;

or combined with gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, and iron calx, / triphalā licked destroys senescence and death.

These ingredients—pippalī and the rest—are each to be added in equal parts to the triphalā. / And regarding calx of gold and the others, it is stated:

gold calx should be just one paṇa; silver should be two paṇas; / copper powder half a paṇa; and two paṇas of lead and tin calx;

likewise iron powder is declared to be just five paṇas. / The user of triphalā in this manner lives as long as the moon and stars endure.

One harītakī in the morning, two vibhītakas before eating, / and four āmalakas at night, all of them cooked in ghee:

a wise man should consume this for a year, freed from wrinkles and grey hair. / Ground with rice-water, one should lick it at night in a vessel of magnetic iron;

with honey, one should lick it in the morning, increasing lifespan and health. / One should first impregnate triphalā with the decoction of khadira and asana,

three times seven times, O mistress of gods; then, soaked with honey and ghee, / one should consume one karṣa daily; after a year he attains the lifespan of Indra.

Separately with the juices of viḍaṅga, bhṛṅga, khadira, and the brahmavṛkṣa tree, / separately for seven days in the sun, one should impregnate triphalā, O beloved.

One should consume one karṣa with jaggery and ghee; after a year he is like a god. / One hundred palas of triphalā powder previously impregnated with the juice of bhṛṅga

for three times seven days should be licked combined with honey and ghee, / half a pala every day in the morning; when digested, one should eat cooked rice with curd.

After a year, with clear eyesight, he lives for six hundred years, / possessing great strength, black hair, and endowed with memory and intelligence.

He becomes a youth, the lover of a hundred women, resolute and fortunate.
<13. The procedure for dried ginger>
Now, O mountain-born goddess, I will declare the divine rejuvenation therapy of dried ginger.

Taking the best dried ginger, one should powder it and sift it through cloth. / Jaggery equal to it should be added, along with honey and cow's ghee.

Placing it in a greased vessel and securing it well inside a heap of grain, / taking it out after two maṇḍalas, with body purified, on an auspicious day,

one should lick one karṣa daily; after seven days he is free from disease. / Consuming it for six months, he lives for two hundred years;

in intellect he equals Vācaspati, knowing the Purāṇas, Āgamas, and Śāstras. / This has been experienced by me, O mistress of gods; it is told to you out of affection.

<14. The procedure for pippalī>
Now, O beloved, I will explain the rejuvenation therapy of pippalī fruits. / One should first purify the pippalī with alkaline water of kiṃśuka;

and then fry them in ghee seven times. / Then, with body purified, one should consume them five, eight, ten, or sevenfold,

for one year with honey and ghee; diseases do not afflict him; / freed from wrinkles and grey hair, he lives for a hundred autumns.

In the morning, before meals and afterwards, one should eat three pippalīs at each time. / After a year it destroys disease and senescence, and he attains a lifespan of a hundred years.

In the order of one, two, and three, one should increase [the dose] for ten days, / and decrease the pippalīs in the same way, decreasing and increasing repeatedly.

With body purified, combined with cow's milk, one should consume them / until one thousand pippalīs [are reached], free from senescence and disease.

Ground with goat's milk, a person of great strength should drink it with [milk]. / Boiled in milk, it gives moderate results; the decreases and increases are as before.

The rejuvenation therapy should be consumed until two thousand [fruits are reached]. / Cough, asthma, consumption, jaundice, spleen disorder, and blood-māruta,

urinary disease, piles, malabsorption, swelling, hiccup, vomiting, and throat obstruction, / and irregular fevers are destroyed by the rejuvenation therapy of pippalī.