[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Early and ascribed compendia](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita) › [The Compendium of Caraka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka) › 4.8.9 # The Compendium of Caraka 4.8.9 Carakasaṃhitā 4.8.9 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.4.8.9) sā cedevamāśāsīta -- bṛhantamavadātaṃ haryakṣamojasvinaṃ śuciṃ sattvasaṃpannaṃ putramiccheyamiti, śuddhasnānāt prabhṛtyasyai manthamavadātayavānāṃ madhusarpirbhyāṃ saṃsṛjya śvetāyā goḥ sarūpavatsāyāḥ payasā+āloḍya rājate kāṃsye vā pātre kāle kāle saptāhaṃ satataṃ prayacchet pānāya / prātaśca śāliyavānnavikārān dadhimadhusarpirbhiḥ payobhirvā saṃsṛjya bhuñjīta, tathā sāyamavadātaśaraṇaśayanāsanapānavasanabhūṣaṇā ca syāt /sāyaṃ prātaśca śaśvacchvetaṃ mahāntaṃ vṛṣabhamājāneyaṃ vā haricandanāṅgadaṃ paśyet / > If she should wish thus: “I desire a son who is large, fair, amber-eyed, vigorous, pure, and endowed with sattva,” then, beginning from the bath of purification, one should constantly give her to drink, time after time for seven days, in a silver or bronze vessel, a churned drink of fair barley mixed with honey and ghee, stirred into the milk of a white cow with a matching calf; and in the morning she should eat preparations of rice and barley mixed with curds, honey, and ghee, or with milk; likewise in the evening her shelter, bed, seat, drink, clothing, and ornaments should be fair; and evening and morning she should continually look upon a large, white, noble bull or stallion, adorned with yellow sandalwood on its limbs. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.8.8\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.4.8.8_2) - [Next: 4.8.9\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.4.8.9_1) - [Up: 4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.4.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.4.8.9) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.4.8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.4.8.9) · Pramāṇa