Ashtangasamgraha 3.5

3.5

Near a town, fire, an anthill, an attractive or exalted [tree], or a funeral-pile tree; / nor facing a woman, a revered person, a cow, the sun, the moon, wind, food, fire, or water. // Khaṇḍakāpya says: "No, out of fear of causing tawny-eyed disfigurement to the embryo." / "Let there be the disfigurement of tawny eyes; even so, one should do this. / It produces an offspring free from disease, endowed with strength, complexion, mental vigor, and compactness of body, and foremost among relatives," says the venerable Ātreya. // Fasting, nourishing, and likewise purification and pacification at first. // There, in emesis, one should cause him to vomit again. / In purgation, having oleated and sweated him, one should purge him again, / or on the third day when the doṣas are excited and abundant. / And in both purifications, having anointed him with salted oil, one should sweat him with bolus and bed sudations. // Rudra favored the fierce [beings] who were humble and desirous of a livelihood: