Ashtangasamgraha 17.3

17.3

tatra vyakto rasaḥ |

anurasastu rasenābhibhūtatvādavyakto vyakto vā kiñcidante |

rasasya tu chedanopaśamane dve karmaṇī |

hitāhitau prabhāvau |

tadāśrayeṣu ca dravyasaṃjñakeṣu pṛthivyādiṣu guṇāḥ prakṛtivikṛtivicāradeśakālavaśādgurvādayo raseṣu sāhacaryādupacaryante ||

pippalīsahasraṃ vā snuhīkṣīrabhāvitaṃ seveta |

tadbhāvitena vā kṛṣṇābhayācūrṇena kāsaram |

saindhavājamodayuktaṃ vā naimbaṃ tailam |

athavārdrakarasānuviddham |

siddhaṃ vā ||

arkakṣīraleśeneva kūrcikāpiṇḍeneva cācitā śarkarā |

śāliśūkābharājyāvṛtā rājīmatī |

chinnaviṣamadagdhābhā saruk chinnāṃśukā |

kāṃsyasamacchāyā candrakasaṃsthānā candrakī |

naikavarṇā chatranibhā chatrakī |

tā na vidhyet |

api ca ||

Among them, taste is distinct.
Secondary taste, however, being overcome by taste, is indistinct, or slightly distinct at the end.
The two functions of taste are excision and pacification;
beneficial and unbeneficial are its inherent powers.
And in the substances that are their receptacles, namely earth and the others, qualities such as heaviness and the rest, depending on natural state, altered state, combination, region, and season, are metaphorically attributed to tastes due to companionship.
Or one should consume a thousand pippalīs macerated in snuhī-latex;
or with powder of kṛṣṇā and abhayā macerated with it, kāsara;
or neem oil combined with rock salt and ajamodā;
or mixed with fresh ginger juice;
or [oil] prepared [with it].
Śarkarā is covered as if with drops of arka-latex or a lump of coagulated milk.
Rājīmatī is covered with stripes resembling rice-awns.
Chinnāṃśukā is torn, uneven, resembles a burn, and is painful.
Candrakī has the luster of bronze and the shape of a moon-disc.
Chatrakī is multi-colored and resembles an umbrella.
One must not puncture them;
moreover: