[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) › 6.1.3.1 # The Compendium of Caraka 6.1.3.1 Carakasaṃhitā 6.1.3.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.1.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.1.3.1) athātaḥ karapracitīyaṃ rasāyanapādaṃ vyākhyāsyāmaḥ// prayujya prayatā muktāḥ śramavyādhijarābhayāt/ yāvadaicchaṃstapastepustatprabhāvānmahābalāḥ// idaṃ rasāyanaṃ cakre brahmā vārṣasahasrikam/ jarāvyādhipraśamanaṃ buddhīndriyabalapradam// (ityāmalakāyasaṃ brāhmarasāyanam/) tapasā brahmacaryeṇa dhyānena praśamena ca/ rasāyanavidhānena kālayuktena cāyuṣā// sthitā maharṣayaḥ pūrvaṃ, nahi kiñcidrasāyanam/ grāmyānāmanyakāryāṇāṃ sidhyatyaprayatātmanām// saṃvatsaraṃ payovṛttirgavāṃ madhye vaset sadā/ sāvitrīṃ manasā dhyāyan brahmacārī yatendriyaḥ// saṃvatsarānte paupīṃ vā māghīṃ vā phālgunīṃ tithim/ tryahopavāsī śuklasya praviśyāmalakīvanam// bṛhatphalāḍhyamāruhya drumaṃ śākhāgataṃ phalam/ gṛhītvā pāṇinā tiṣṭhejjapan brahmāmṛtāgamāt// tadā hyavaśyamamṛtaṃ vasatyāmalake kṣaṇam/ śarkarāmadhukalpāni snehavanti mṛdūni ca// bhavantyamṛtasaṃyogāttāni yāvanti bhakṣayet/ jīvedvarṣasahasrāṇi tāvantyāgatayauvanaḥ// sauhityameṣāṃ gatvā tu bhavatyamarasannibhaḥ/ svayaṃ cāsyopatiṣṭhante śrīrvedā vāk ca rūpiṇī// (iti kevalāmalakarasāyanam/) triphalāyā rase mūtre gavāṃ kṣāre ca lāvaṇe/ krameṇa ceṅgudīkṣāre kiṃśukakṣāra eva ca// tīkṣṇāyasasya patrāṇi vahnivarṇāni &sādhayet/ caturaṅguladīrghāṇi &&tilotsedhatanūni ca// &\`vāpayet' iti pā-. &&\`tilotsedhasamāni' iti pā-. jñātvā tānyañjanābhāni sūkṣmacūrṇāni kārayet/ tāni cūrṇāni madhunā rasenāmalakasya ca// yuktāni lehavat kumbhe sthitāni ghṛtabhāvite/ saṃvatsaraṃ nidheyāni yavapalle tathaiva ca// dadyādāloḍanaṃ māse sarvatrāloḍayan budhaḥ/ > Now we shall expound the quarter of rejuvenatives entitled 'Hand-Harvested'. > > Having used it, the self-controlled were freed from fear of fatigue, disease, and old age; > by its power, possessed of great strength, they practiced asceticism as long as they wished. > Brahmā created this rejuvenative lasting a thousand years, > which relieves old age and disease, and confers strength upon the intellect and sense faculties. > (Thus ends the iron-and-āmalakī rejuvenative of Brahmā.) > > By asceticism, celibacy, meditation, and tranquility, > by the proper use of rejuvenatives, and by an appropriate lifespan, > the great sages of old endured; for no rejuvenative succeeds > for the rustic, for those engaged in other pursuits, or for those whose minds are not self-controlled. > Subsisting on milk for a year, one should dwell always among cows, > meditating mentally on the Sāvitrī, celibate, with restrained senses. > At the end of the year, on the full-moon day of Pauṣa, Māgha, or Phālguna, > having fasted for three days of the bright fortnight, one should enter an āmalakī grove. > Having climbed a tree rich with large fruits, grasping a fruit on a branch > with one's hand, one should remain reciting the sacred syllable until the arrival of the nectar of immortality. > For at that moment the nectar of immortality surely dwells in the āmalakī for an instant; > \[the fruits\] become sweet like sugar and honey, oily, and soft > owing to union with the nectar of immortality. As many of them as one may eat, > for that many thousands of years one will live, restored to youth. > Having reached full repletion with them, he becomes like an immortal, > and Fortune, the Vedas, and embodied Speech attend upon him of their own accord. > (Thus ends the pure āmalakī rejuvenative.) > > In the decoction of triphalā, in cow's urine, in salt-water, > and successively in the alkali of ingudī and the alkali of kiṃśuka, > one should quench sheets of sharp iron brought to the color of fire, > four finger-breadths long and as thin as the height of a sesamum seed. > Knowing them to have become dark like collyrium, one should reduce them to fine powder. > Those powders, mixed with honey and the juice of āmalakī, > resembling an electuary and kept in a pot seasoned with ghee, > should be placed for one year in a mound of barley grains. > The wise man should stir it every month, mixing it thoroughly everywhere. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.1.2\_2\_8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.1.2_2_8) - [Next: 6.1.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.1.3.2) - [Up: 6.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.1.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.6.1.3.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.1.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.1.3.1) · Pramāṇa