Ashtangasamgraha 1.29
English (machine translation) 1.29
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1.29
Chyle, blood, flesh, fat, bone, marrow, and semen are the bodily tissues;
these are the seven bodily elements subject to vitiation; the waste products are urine, feces, sweat, and others as well.
And when [the union] is completed, one should suddenly sprinkle her with cold water.
From the day of Jyeṣṭhā, in Dhaniṣṭhā [death occurs], or in the Vāruṇa asterism on the twelfth.
Due to the absence of food, for vitality, for easy movement, and for lightness.
One should administer electuaries with their decoctions, mixed with the powder of any one of the jīvanīya group, together with honey and sugar, when kapha is accompanied by pitta.
The woman who has delivered should perform the bath ceremony, and the father [should give] the name of the child.
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- Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit