Ashtangasamgraha 5.59

5.59

Knowledge of place, time, and self, observance of good conduct,
pacification prescribed by the Atharvaveda, and worship of unfavourable astrological bodies.
By them this [body] is fenestrated, bound together, and extended.
Thirst is characterized by waste according to the symptoms stated for the depletion of chyle.
One should cause them to be sprinkled with the powder of black pepper and cumin measuring one pala.
Sweet, slightly astringent and bitter, not unctuous, slightly pungent, hot, and unctuous-slimy.
Cows, the atmosphere, the two twilights, constellations, planets, and years—