[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 # The Compendium of Caraka 6.1.3 Carakasaṃhitā 6.1.3 - **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) ### [6.1.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.1.3.2) saṃvatsarātyaye tasya prayogo madhusarpiṣā// prātaḥ prātarvalāpekṣī sātmyaṃ jīrṇe ca bhojanam/ eṣa eva ca lauhānāṃ prayogaḥ saṃprakīrtitaḥ// nābhighātairna cātaṅkairjarayā na ca mṛtyunā/ sa dhṛṣyaḥ syādgajaprāṇaḥ sadā cātibalendriyaḥ// dhīmān yaśasvī &vāksiddhaḥ śrutadhārī &&mahādhanaḥ/ bhavet samāṃ prayuñjāno naro lauharasāyanam// &\`vāgmī ca' iti pā-. &&\`mahābalaḥ' iti pā-. anenaiva vidhānena hemnaśca rajatasya ca/ āyuḥprakarṣakṛtsiddhaḥ prayogaḥ sarvaroganut// (iti lauhādirasāyanam/) aindrī matsyākhyako brāhmī vacā brahmasuvarcalā/ pippalyo lavaṇaṃ hema śaṅkhapuṣpī viṣaṃ ghṛtam// eṣāṃ triyavakān bhāgān hemasarpirviṣairvinā/ dvau yavau tatra hemnastu tilaṃ dadyādviṣasya ca// sarpiṣaśca palaṃ dadyāttadaikadhyaṃ prayojayet/ ghṛtaprabhūtaṃ sakṣaudraṃ jīrṇe cānnaṃ praśasyate// jarāvyādhipraśamanaṃ smṛtimedhākaraṃ param/ āyuṣyaṃ pauṣṭikaṃ dhanyaṃ svaravarṇaprasādanam// paramojaskaraṃ caitat siddhamaindraṃ rasāyanam/ nainat prasahate kṛtyā nālakṣmīrna viṣaṃ na ruk// śvitraṃ sakuṣṭhaṃ jaṭharāṇi gulmāḥ plīhā purāṇo viṣamajvaraśca/ medhāsmṛtijñānaharāśca rogāḥ śāmyantyanenātibalāśca vātāḥ// (ityaindraṃ rasāyanam/) maṇḍūkaparṇyāḥ svarasaḥ prayojyaḥ kṣīreṇa yaṣṭīmadhukasya cūrṇam/ raso guḍūcyāstu samūlapuṣpyāḥ kalkaḥ prayojyaḥ khalu śaṅkhapuṣpyāḥ// āyuḥpradānyāmayanāśanāni balāgnivarṇasvaravardhanāni/ medhyāni caitāni rasāyanāni medhyā viśeṣeṇa ca śaṅkhapuṣpī// (iti medhyarasāyanāni/) pañcāṣṭau sapta daśa vā pippalīrmadhusarpiṣā/ rasāyanaguṇānveṣī samāmekāṃ prayojayet// > At the conclusion of the year, its administration is with honey and ghee > every morning, taking account of strength; and when it is digested, wholesome food \[is taken\]. > This very procedure is proclaimed for \[all\] metallic preparations. > Neither by trauma nor by illnesses, neither by old age nor by death > can he be overcome; he possesses the vitality of an elephant and always has exceedingly strong sense faculties. > Wise, renowned, successful in speech, retaining what he has heard, and possessing great wealth > becomes the man who uses this iron rejuvenative for a year. > By this very procedure, an established administration of gold and of silver, > which brings about extension of lifespan and cures all diseases, \[is accomplished\]. > (Thus ends the rejuvenative of iron and other metals.) > > Aindrī, matsyākhyaka, brāhmī, vacā, brahmasuvarcalā, > pippalī, rock salt, gold, śaṅkhapuṣpī, viṣa, and ghee: > of these, three barleycorn-weight portions each, except for gold, ghee, and viṣa; > of gold there should be two barleycorns, and of sesamum seed \[weight\] of viṣa, > and one pala of ghee should be added; one should administer it all together. > After it is digested, food mixed with plenty of ghee and honey is recommended. > This allays old age and disease, is supreme in producing memory and intellect, > promotes lifespan, is nourishing, auspicious, and clarifies voice and complexion. > This is a supreme producer of ojas, the perfected rejuvenative of Indra; > neither sorcery, nor misfortune, nor poison, nor sickness prevails over him. > Vitiligo along with kuṣṭha, abdominal enlargements, abdominal lumps, spleen disease, chronic irregular fever, > and diseases that rob intellect, memory, and knowledge, as well as exceptionally strong vāta disorders, are allayed by it. > (Thus ends the rejuvenative of Indra.) > > The fresh juice of maṇḍūkaparṇī should be used; powder of yaṣṭīmadhuka with milk; > the juice of guḍūcī with its roots and flowers; and indeed the paste of śaṅkhapuṣpī should be used. > These rejuvenatives bestow long life, destroy sickness, and promote strength, digestive fire, complexion, and voice; > they are promoters of intellect, and śaṅkhapuṣpī in particular is an intellect-promoter. > (Thus ends the intellect-promoting rejuvenatives.) > > Five, eight, seven, or ten pippalīs with honey and ghee, > one seeking the qualities of a rejuvenative should use for one year. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.1.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.1.3.3) tisrastisrastu pūrvāhṇe bhuktvā 'agre bhojanasya ca/ pippalyaḥ kiṃśukakṣārabhāvitā ghṛtabharjitāḥ// prayojyā madhusaṃmiśrā rasāyanaguṇaiṣiṇā/ jetuṃ kāsaṃ kṣayaṃ śoṣaṃ śvāsaṃ hikkāṃ galāmayān// arśāṃsi grahaṇīdoṣaṃ pāṇḍutāṃ viṣamajvaram/ vaisvaryaṃ pīnasaṃ śophaṃ gulmaṃ vātabalāsakam// (iti pippalīrasāyanam/) kramavṛddhyā daśāhāni &daśapaippalikaṃ dinam/ vardhayet payasā sārdhaṃ tathaivāpanayet punaḥ// &\`daśapippalīkaṃ' iti pā-. jīrṇe jīrṇe ca bhuñjīta ṣaṣṭikaṃ kṣīrasarpiṣā/ pippalīnāṃ sahasrasya prayogo 'ayaṃ rasāyanam// piṣṭāstā balibhiḥ sevyāḥ, śṛtā madhyabalairnaraiḥ/ &cūrṇīkṛtā hṛasvabalairyojyā doṣāmayān prati// &\`śītīkṛtāḥ' iti pā-. daśapaippalikaḥ śreṣṭho madhyamaḥ &ṣaṭ prakīrtitaḥ/ prayogo yastriparyantaḥ sa kanīyān sa cābalaiḥ// &\`ṣaṭ ṣaṭpaipalikaḥ yogaḥ' iti yogīndranāthasenaḥ. bṛṃhaṇaṃ svaryamāyuṣyaṃ plīhodaravināśanam/ vayasraḥ sthāpanaṃ medhyaṃ pippalīnāṃ rasāyanam// (iti &pippalīvardhamānaṃ rasāyanam/) &\`vardamānapippalīrasāyanam' iti pā-. jaraṇānte 'abhayāmekāṃ prāgbhuktād dve bibhītake/ bhuktvā tu madhusarpirbhyāṃ catvāryāmalakāni ca// prayojayan samāmekāṃ triphalāyā rasāyanam/ jīvedvarṣaśataṃ pūrṇamajaro 'avyādhireva ca// (iti triphalārasāyanam/) traiphalenāyasīṃ pātrīṃ kalkenālepayennavām/ tamahorātrikaṃ lepaṃ pibet kṣaudrodakāplutam// prabhūtasnehamaśanaṃ jīrṇe tatra praśasyate/ ajaro 'aruk samābhyāsājjīveccaiva samāḥ śatam// (iti triphalārasāyanamaparam/) madhukena tugākṣīryā pippalyā kṣaudrasarpiṣā/ triphalā sitayā cāpi yuktā siddhaṃ rasāyanam// > Eating three \[pippalīs\] each in the forenoon and before a meal, > pippalīs soaked in kiṃśukakṣāra and fried in ghee, > mixed with honey, should be used by one desiring the qualities of a rejuvenative > to conquer cough, consumption, wasting, dyspnea, hiccup, throat diseases, > hemorrhoids, disorders of the duodenal tract, jaundice, irregular fever, > hoarseness, chronic rhinitis, swelling, abdominal lumps, and vātabalāsaka. > (Thus ends the pippalī rejuvenative.) > > By gradual increase over ten days, adding ten pippalīs a day, > one should increase them with milk, and reduce them again in the very same way. > When each \[dose\] is digested, one should eat sixty-day rice with milk and ghee. > This rejuvenative regimen consists of a thousand pippalīs. > Ground into a paste, they are to be consumed by the strong; boiled as a decoction, by men of medium strength; > and made into a powder, by those of lesser strength, according to dosas and disorders. > The ten-pippalī \[course\] is the best; the six\[-pippalī course\] is declared intermediate; > that course which has an extent of three is the least, and it is for the weak. > Nourishing, beneficial to the voice, life-promoting, destroying splenic enlargement and abdominal swelling, > arresting aging, promoting intellect is the rejuvenative of pippalīs. > (Thus ends the gradually increasing pippalī rejuvenative.) > > At the end of digestion, one abhayā; before a meal, two bibhītakas; > and after eating, four āmalakīs with honey and ghee: > using this rejuvenative of triphalā for one year, > one will live a full hundred years, ageless and free from disease. > (Thus ends the triphalā rejuvenative.) > > One should coat a new iron vessel with the paste of triphalā; > one should drink that coating, kept for a day and night, diluted in honey-water. > When it is digested, food with plenty of unctuous substance is recommended. > From practicing this for a year, one will live a hundred years, ageless and free from pain. > (Thus ends another triphalā rejuvenative.) > > Combined with madhuka, tugākṣīrī, pippalī, honey, ghee, > and sugar, triphalā is an accomplished rejuvenative. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.1.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.1.3.4) (iti triphalārasāyanamaparam/) &sarvalauhaiḥ suvarṇena vacayā madhusarpiṣā/ viḍaṅgapippalībhyāṃ ca triphalā lavaṇena ca// &\`savairlohaiḥ trapusīsatāmrarūpyakṛṣṇalohaiḥ' iti yogīndranāthasena. saṃvatsaraprayogeṇa medhāsmṛtibalapradā/ bhavatyāyuḥpradā dhanyā jarāroganibarhaṇī// (iti triphalārasāyanamaparam/) anamlaṃ ca kaṣāyaṃ ca kaṭu pāke śilājatu/ nātyuṣṇaśītaṃ dhātubhyaścaturbhyastasya saṃbhavaḥ// hemnaśca rajatāttāmrād-&varāt kṛṣṇāyasādapi/ rasāyanaṃ tadvidhibhistadvṛṣyaṃ tacca roganut// &\`varaṃ' iti pā-. vātapittakaphaghnaiśca niryūhaistat subhāvitam/ vīryotkarṣaṃ paraṃ yāti sarvairekaikaśo 'api vā// &prakṣiptoddhṛtamapyenat punastat prakṣipedrase/ koṣṇe saptāhametena vidhinā tasya bhāvanā// &\`śitlājatu koṣṇe vātaharādikvāthe prakṣipya athainaṃ raudre śoṣayet/ pītatatkvāthamuddhṛtaṃ punarapi tad rase kvāthe prakṣipet/ anena vidhinā saptāhaṃ (saptavārān) tasya bhāvanā' iti gaṅgādharaḥ. pūrvoktena vidhānena lohaiścūrṇīkṛtaiḥ saha/ tat pītaṃ payasā dadyāddīrghamāyuḥ sukhānvitam// jarāvyādhipraśamanaṃ dehadārḍhya karaṃ param/ medhāsmṛtikaraṃ dhanyaṃ kṣīrāśī tat prayojayet// prayogaḥ saptasaptāhāstrayaścaikaśca saptakaḥ/ nirdiṣṭastrividhastasya paro madhyo 'avarastathā// palamardhapalaṃ karṣo mātrā tasya tridhā matā/ jāterviśeṣaṃ savidhiṃ tasya vakṣyāmyataḥ param// hemādyāḥ sūryasaṃtaptāḥ sravanti giridhātavaḥ/ jatvābhaṃ mṛdu mṛtsnācchaṃ yanmalaṃ tacchilājatu// madhuraśca satiktaśca japāpuṣpanibhaśca yaḥ/ kaṭurvipāke śītaśca sa suvarṇasya nisravaḥ// > (Thus ends another triphalā rejuvenative.) > With all base metals, gold, vacā, honey, and ghee, > and with viḍaṅga, pippalī, and salt, triphalā, > used for a year, bestows intellect, memory, and strength; > it grants longevity, is auspicious, and destroys old age and disease. > (Thus ends another triphalā rejuvenative.) > Not sour, astringent, and pungent in post-digestive effect is śilājatu; > neither excessively hot nor cold, its origin is from four minerals: > from gold, silver, copper, and from excellent black iron. > It is a rejuvenative when \[taken\] according to rule, aphrodisiac, and curative of disease. > Thoroughly soaked in decoctions that destroy vāta, pitta, and kapha, > either with all together or each one individually, it attains supreme potency. > Thrown in and taken out, it should be thrown into the warm liquid again; > by this procedure its soaking lasts for seven days. > In conjunction with powdered metals according to the method stated earlier, > that, drunk with milk, will grant a long life accompanied by happiness, > allaying old age and disease, eminently producing bodily firmness, > bestowing intellect and memory, auspicious; living on milk, one should use it. > Its administration is of three types, designated as superior, middling, and inferior: > seven weeks, three \[weeks\], and one week. > Its dose is considered threefold: a pala, half a pala, and a karṣa. > Hereafter I shall explain the distinctions of its origin along with the method. > When heated by the sun, mountain ores of gold and the like exude > a soft, smooth, clear excretion resembling lac; that is śilājatu. > That which is sweet and bitter, resembling a hibiscus flower, > pungent in post-digestive effect, and cool is the exudation of gold. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.1.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.1.3.5) rūpyasya kaṭukaḥ śvetaḥ śītaḥ svādu vipacyate/ tāmrasya barhikaṇṭhābhastiktoṣṇaḥ pacyate kaṭu// yastu guggulukābhāsastiktako lavaṇānvitaḥ/ kaṭurvipāke śītaśca sarvaśreṣṭhaḥ sa cāyasaḥ// gomūtragandhayaḥ sarve sarvakarmasu yaugikāḥ/ rasāyanaprayogeṣu paścimastu viśiṣyate// yathākramaṃ vātapitte śleṣmapitte kaphe triṣu/ viśeṣataḥ praśasyante malā hemādidhātujāḥ// śilājatuprayogeṣu vidāhīni gurūṇi ca/ varjayet sarvakālaṃ tu &kulatthān parivarjayet// &\`kunakhān' iti pā-. te hyatyantaviruddhatvādaśmano bhedanāḥ param/ loke dṛṣṭāstatasteṣāṃ prayogaḥ pratiṣidhyate// payāṃsi &takrāṇi rasāḥ sayūṣāstoyaṃ samūtrā vividhāḥ kaṣāyāḥ/ āloḍanārthaṃ girijasya śastāste te prayojyāḥ prasamīkṣya kāryam// &\`śuktāni' iti pā. na so 'asti rogo bhuvi sādhyarūpaḥ śilāhvayaṃ yaṃ na jayet prasahya/ tat kālayogairvidhibhiḥ prayuktaṃ svasthasya corjāṃ vipulāṃ dadāti// > That of silver is pungent, white, cool, and digests sweet. > That of copper resembles a peacock's neck, is bitter, hot, and digests pungent. > That, however, which looks like guggulu, is bitter with salt, > pungent in post-digestive effect, and cool, is from iron, and is the best of all. > All have the smell of cow urine and are suited for all procedures, > but for the administration of rejuvenatives, the last is superior. > In vāta-pitta, śleṣma-pitta, kapha, and in all three respectively, > the excretions arising from the minerals gold and the like are particularly praised. > During regimens of śilājatu, one must avoid foods causing burning and heavy foods; > at all times, however, one must completely avoid horsegram. > For they, being exceedingly incompatible, are observed in the world > to be the foremost splitters of stone; therefore, their use is prohibited. > Milk, buttermilk, meat soups, pulses, water, urine, and various decoctions > are commended for stirring śilājatu; they should be used after examining the purpose. > There is no curable disease on earth which that called stone cannot forcefully conquer; > administered according to rule at appropriate times, it also grants abundant energy to the healthy. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.1.3) · Pramāṇa