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# Ashtangahridayasamhita 238

Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā 238

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [238](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangahrdaya.238)

snehānām uttamaṃ śītaṃ vayasaḥ sthāpanaṃ param |  
sahasra-vīryaṃ vidhibhir ghṛtaṃ karma-sahasra-kṛt || 39 ||

> It is the foremost of unctuous substances, cold, supreme for maintaining youth;  
> endowed with a thousand potencies, through preparations ghee performs a thousand actions.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [238.v](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangahrdaya.238.v)

5.39cv sahasra-vīryaṃ vidhi-vad

> \[Variant reading:\] …of thousandfold potency, according to rule.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangahrdaya~en-mt.238) — English, machine translation

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sarvāṅgasundarā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangahrdaya!arunadatta.1.5.101.1) — Aruṇadatta, Sanskrit

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