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> and the foremost virilising field is an exhilarating woman. > For sense-objects are held to bring supreme delight when enjoyed one by one; > how much more so when established together in aggregate in a woman's body! > (For the aggregate of sense-objects is found in women, nowhere else.) > Indeed, the sense-object resting on a woman is exceedingly delight-producing; > delight resides especially in women, and in women offspring is established. > Duty and wealth are in women, and auspicious fortune, and the worlds are established in women. > She who is handsome, in the prime of youth, and adorned with auspicious marks, > who is compliant and well-trained—that woman is deemed most aphrodisiac. > Yet according to the varied inclination of humanity and by the conjunction of destiny in women, > qualities such as beauty flourish upon attaining this or that particular man. > That supreme woman who, through age, beauty, speech, and gestures, > swiftly enters his heart, whether by destiny or by karma; > who is the very form of a festival for the heart; who has matching thoughts; > who has a matching nature, is compliant, and is pleased with his beloved things; > who, through supreme qualities, has become a snare for all his senses; > separated from whom, he, finding no delight, regards the world as devoid of women; > without whom a man maintains a body as if empty of the senses; > seeing whom, a man is not overcome by grief, agitation, discontent, or fear; > attaining whom, he gains trust; seeing whom, he rejoices exceedingly; > whom he visits ever with supreme rush of excitement as if she were a new woman; > visiting whom repeatedly, having reached \[her\], he never attains satiety— > that woman is most aphrodisiac for him; for human beings have diverse natures. > A man free from disease, desiring offspring, should approach a woman > who is of a different lineage, virilising, cheerful, free from disorders, and freshly bathed after menstruation. > Just as a tree that gives no shade, has a single branch, bears no fruit, > and has an unpleasant odor stands alone, so too does a man without offspring. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.2.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.2.1.2) citradīpaḥ saraḥ śuṣkamadhāturdhātusannibhaḥ// niṣprajastṛṇapūlīti mantavyaḥ puruṣākṛtiḥ/ apratiṣṭhaśca nagnaśca śūnyaścaikendriyaśca nā// mantavyo niṣkriyaścaiva yasyāpatyaṃ na vidyate/ bahumūrtirbahumukho bahuvyūho bahukriyaḥ// bahucakṣurbahujñāno bahvātmā ca bahuprajaḥ/ maṅgalyo 'ayaṃ praśasyo 'ayaṃ dhanyo 'ayaṃ vīryavānayam// bahuśākho 'ayamiti ca stūyate nā bahuprajaḥ/ prītirbalaṃ sukhaṃ vṛttirvistāro &vipulaṃ kulam// &\`vibhavaḥ' iti pā-. yaśo lokāḥ sukhodarkāstuṣṭiścāpatyasaṃśritāḥ/ tasmādapatyamanvicchan guṇāṃścāpatyasaṃśritān// vājīkaraṇanityaḥ syādicchan kāmasukhāni ca/ upabhogasukhān siddhān vīryāpatyavivardhanān// vājīkaraṇasaṃyogān pravakṣyāmyata uttaram/ śaramūlekṣumūlāni kāṇḍekṣuḥ sekṣuvālikā// śatāvarī payasyā ca vidārī kaṇṭakārikā/ jīvantī jīvako medā vīrā carṣabhako balā// ṛddhirgokṣurakaṃ rāsnā sātmaguptā punarnavā/ eṣāṃ tripalikān &bhāgān māṣāṇāmāḍhakaṃ navam// &\`pṛtak tripalikān kṛtvā' iti pā-. vipācayejjaladroṇe caturbhāgaṃ ca śeṣayet/ tatra peṣyāṇi madhukaṃ drākṣā phalgūni pippalī// ātmaguptā madhūkāni kharjūrāṇi śatāvarī/ vidāryāmalakekṣūṇāṃ rasasya ca pṛthak pṛthak// sarpiṣaścāḍhakaṃ dadyāt kṣīradroṇaṃ ca tadbhiṣak/ sādhayedghṛtaśeṣaṃ ca supūtaṃ yojayet punaḥ// śarkarāyāstugākṣīryāścūrṇaiḥ prasthonmataiḥ pṛthak/ palaiścaturbhirmāgadhyāḥ palena maricasya ca// tvagelākeśarāṇāṃ ca cūrṇairardhapalonmitaiḥ/ madhunaḥ kuḍavābhyāṃ ca dvābhyāṃ tatkārayedbhiṣak// palikā &gulikāstyānāstā yathāgni prayojayet/ eṣa vṛṣyaḥ paraṃ yogo bṛṃhaṇo balavardhanaḥ// > A man without offspring is to be regarded as a painted lamp, a dried-up lake, > a non-metal resembling a metal, a bundle of grass in human form. > A man in whom offspring is not found is to be regarded as > unestablished, naked, empty, possessing only a single sense-organ, and inactive. > One with many offspring possesses many forms, many faces, many hosts, many actions, > many eyes, much knowledge, and many selves. > 'This one is auspicious, this one is praiseworthy, this one is fortunate, this one is virile, > this one has many branches'—thus is a man with many offspring praised. > Delight, strength, happiness, livelihood, expansion, an extensive family, > \[Variant: "prosperity,"\] > fame, worlds culminating in happiness, and contentment—all are based on offspring. > Therefore, seeking offspring and the virtues that rest upon offspring, > and desiring the pleasures of desire, one should constantly adhere to virilisation. > Hereafter I shall declare the proven virilising combinations > that bring the happiness of enjoyment and increase virility and offspring. > Roots of arrow-grass and reed, kāṇḍekṣu, ikṣuvālikā, > śatāvarī, payasyā, vidārī, kaṇṭakārikā, > jīvantī, jīvaka, medā, vīrā, ṛṣabhaka, balā, > ṛddhi, gokṣuraka, rāsnā, ātmaguptā, and punarnavā: > take three-pala portions of these, and a fresh āḍhaka of māṣa beans; > \[Variant: "having taken separate three-pala portions,"\] > one should boil them in a droṇa of water and reduce it to a fourth. > The substances to be ground therein are madhuka, drākṣā, phalgu, pippalī, > ātmaguptā, madhūka, kharjūra, and śatāvarī; > and an āḍhaka of ghee, an āḍhaka each of the juice of > vidārī, āmalakī, and sugarcane, and a droṇa of milk, the physician should add; > he should cook it until only the ghee remains; then, well-strained, he should combine it > with powders of sugar and tugākṣīrī, each measured at a prastha, > with four palas of māgadhī and one pala of marica, > and with powders of cinnamon, cardamom, and saffron, each measured at half a pala, > and with two kuḍavas of honey. The physician should make it > into solid pills of one pala each; one should use them according to one's digestive power. > This formulation is supremely virilising, nourishing, and strength-promoting. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.2.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.2.1.3) &\`kṛtvā' iti pā. anenāśva ivodīrṇo balī liṅgaṃ samarpayet/ (iti vṛṃhaṇīguṭikā/) māṣāṇāmātmaguptāyā bījānāmāḍhakaṃ navam// jīvakarṣabhakau vīrāṃ medāmṛddhiṃ śatāvarīm/ madhukaṃ cāśvagandhāṃ ca sādhayet kuḍavonmitām// rase tasmin ghṛtaprasthaṃ gavyaṃ daśaguṇaṃ payaḥ/ vidārīṇāṃ rasaprasthaṃ prasthamikṣurasasya ca// dattvā mṛdvagninā sādhyaṃ siddhaṃ sarpirnidhāpayet/ śarkarāyāstugākṣīryāḥ kṣaudrasya ca pṛthak pṛthak// bhāgāṃścatuṣpalāṃstatra pippalyāścāvapet palam/ palaṃ pūrvamato līḍhvā tato 'annamupayojayet// ya icchedakṣayaṃ śukraṃ śephasaścottamaṃ balam/ (iti vājīkaraṇaṃ ghṛtam/) śarkarā māṣavidalāstugākṣīrī payo ghṛtam// godhūmacūrṇaṣaṣṭhāni sarpiṣyutkārikāṃ pacet/ tāṃ nātipakvāṃ mṛditāṃ kaukkuṭe madhure rase// sugandhe prakṣipeduṣṇe yathā sāndrībhavedrasaḥ/ eṣa piṇḍdaraso vṛṣyaḥ pauṣṭiko balavardhanaḥ// anenāśva ivodīrṇo &balī liṅgaṃ samarpayet/ śikhitittirihaṃsānāmevaṃ piṇḍaraso mataḥ/ balavarṇasvarakaraḥ pumāṃstena vṛṣāyate// &\`ivodīrṇabalaḥ' iti pā-. (iti &vājīkaraṇapiṇḍarasāḥ/) &\`vājīkarī lapsikā' iti pā-. ghṛtaṃ māṣān sabastāṇḍān sādhayenmāhiṣe rase/ bharjayettaṃ rasaṃ pūtaṃ phalāmlaṃ navasarpiṣi// īṣatsalavaṇaṃ yuktaṃ dhānyajīrakanāgaraiḥ/ eṣa vṛṣyaśca balyaśca bṛṃhaṇaśca rasottamaḥ// (iti &vṛṣyamāhiṣarasaḥ/) &\`vājīkarī lapsikā' iti pā-. caṭakāṃstittirirase tittirīn kaukkuṭe rase/ kukkuṭān bārhiṇarase hāṃse bārhiṇameva ca// navasarpiṣi saṃtaptān phalāmlān kārayedrasān/ madhurān vā yathāsātmyaṃ gandhāḍhyān balavardhanām// (ityanye vṛṣyarasāḥ/) > By this, powerful as an aroused horse, he can insert his penis. > (Thus ends the nourishing pill.) > One fresh āḍhaka of māṣa and seeds of ātmaguptā, > jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, vīrā, medā, ṛddhi, śatāvarī, > madhuka, and aśvagandhā, measured at a kuḍava \[each\], should be cooked. > In that decoction, one prastha of ghee, ten times as much cow's milk, > one prastha of juice of vidārī, and a prastha of sugarcane juice— > having added these, it should be cooked over a gentle fire. When prepared, the ghee should be set aside. > Sugar, tugākṣīrī, and honey, each separately > in portions of four palas, and one pala of pippalī should be added to it. > Having licked one pala of this beforehand, one should then take food, > \[he\] who desires inexhaustible semen and supreme strength of the penis. > (Thus ends the virilising ghee.) > Sugar, split māṣa, tugākṣīrī, milk, ghee, > and wheat flour as the sixth—one should cook a pancake in ghee. > Crushing it while not overcooked, one should throw it into sweet chicken soup, > fragrant and hot, so that the soup becomes thick. > This piṇḍarasa is virilising, nourishing, and strength-promoting. > By this, powerful as an aroused horse, he can insert his penis. > The piṇḍarasa of peacock, partridge, and swan is considered likewise; > it produces strength, complexion, and voice, and through it a man becomes virile. > (Thus end the virilising piṇḍarasas.) > One should cook ghee and māṣa with goat testicles in buffalo soup; > one should fry that strained soup, soured with fruits, in fresh ghee, > lightly salted and mixed with coriander, cumin, and dry ginger. > This is virilising, strengthening, and nourishing—the best of soups. > (Thus ends the virilising buffalo soup.) > Sparrows in partridge soup, partridges in chicken soup, > chickens in peacock soup, and peacock in swan soup— > one should prepare these soups, heated in fresh ghee and soured with fruits, > or sweet, according to suitability, rich in fragrance and strength-promoting. > (Thus end the other virilising soups.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.2.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.2.1.4) tṛptiṃ caṭakamāṃsānāṃ gatvā yo 'anupibet payaḥ/ na tasya liṅgaśaithilyaṃ syānna śukrakṣayo niśi// (iti vṛṣyamāṃsam/) māṣayūṣeṇa yo bhuktvā ghṛtāḍhyaṃ ṣaṣṭikaudanam/ payaḥ pibati rātriṃ sa kṛtsnāṃ jāgarti vegavān// (iti vṛṣyamāṣayogaḥ/) na nā svapiti rātriṣu &nityastabdhena śephasā/ tṛptaḥ kukkuṭamāṃsānāṃ bhṛṣṭānāṃ nakraretasi// &\`nistabdhena ca' iti pā-. (iti &vṛṣyaḥ kukkuṭamāṃsaprayogaḥ/) &\`vṛṣyaśukrarasaḥ' iti pā-. niḥsrāvya matsyāṇḍarasaṃ bhṛṣṭaṃ sarpiṣi bhakṣayet/ haṃsabarhiṇadakṣāṇāmevamaṇḍāni bhakṣayet// tasmāt purā śodhanameva kāryaṃ balānurūpaṃ na hi vṛṣyayogāḥ/ sidhyanti dehe maline prayuktāḥ kliṣṭe yathā vāsasi rāgayogāḥ// daśa pañca ca saṃyogā vīryāpatyavivardhanāḥ/ uktāste śaramūlīye pāde puṣṭibalapradāḥ// > Having attained satisfaction from sparrow meat, he who drinks milk afterwards— > for him there would be no flaccidity of the penis, nor loss of semen at night. > (Thus ends the virilising meat.) > Having eaten ṣaṣṭika rice rich in ghee with māṣa soup, > he who drinks milk stays awake the entire night with strong impulse. > (Thus ends the virilising māṣa formulation.) > A man does not sleep through the nights, with his penis constantly erect, > satisfied with chicken meat fried in crocodile semen. > (Thus ends the virilising chicken meat formulation.) > Having extracted the fluid of fish eggs, one should eat it fried in ghee; > likewise one should eat the eggs of swans, peacocks, and chickens. > Therefore, purification alone should be performed first according to strength, for virilising formulations > employed in an unclean body do not succeed, just as dyeing formulations \[do not succeed\] on dirty cloth. > Fifteen formulations that increase virility and offspring > have been declared in the quarter on the roots of reed and arrow-grass, granting nourishment and strength. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.6.2.1.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.2.1) · Pramāṇa