[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) › 6.2.4.2 # The Compendium of Caraka 6.2.4.2 Carakasaṃhitā 6.2.4.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.2.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.2.4.2) bhuktaḥ pītaśca sa rasaḥ kurute śukramakṣayam// (iti vṛṣyo māhiṣarasaḥ/) ārdrāṇi matsyamāṃsāni śapharīrvā subharjitāḥ/ tapte sarpiṣi yaḥ khādet sa gacchet strīṣu na kṣayam// ghṛtabhṛṣṭān rase cchāge rohitān phalasārike/ anupītarasān snigdhānapatyārthī prayojayet// (iti vṛṣyavṛtabhṛṣṭamatsyamāṃsāni/) &kuṭṭakaṃ matsyamāṃsānāṃ hiṅgusaindhavadhānyakaiḥ/ yuktaṃ godhūmacūrṇena ghṛte pūpalikāḥ pacet// &\`kuṭṭitaṃ' iti pā-. māhiṣe ca rase matsyān snigdhāmlalavaṇān pacet/ rase cānugate māṃsaṃ pothayettatra cāvapet// maricaṃ jīrakaṃ dhānyamalpaṃ hiṅgu navaṃ ghṛtam/ māṣapūpalikānāṃ tadgarbhārthamupakalpayet// etau pūpalikāyogau bṛṃhaṇau balavardhanau/ harṣasaubhāgyadau putryau paraṃ śukrābhivardhanau// (iti vṛṣyau pūpalikāyogau/) māṣātmaguptāgodhūmaśāliṣaṣṭikapaiṣṭikam/ śarkarāyā vidāryāśca cūrṇamikṣurakasya ca// saṃyojya masṛṇe kṣīre ghṛte pūpalikāḥ pacet/ payo 'anupānāstāḥ śīghraṃ kurvanti vṛṣatāṃ parām// (iti vṛṣyā māṣādipūpalikāḥ/) śarkarāyāstulaikā syādekā gavyasya sarpiṣaḥ/ prastho vidāryāścūrṇasya pippalyāḥ prastha eva ca// ardhāḍhakaṃ tugākṣīryāḥ kṣaudrasyābhinavasya ca/ tatsarvaṃ mūrcchitaṃ tiṣṭhenmārtike ghṛtabhājane// mātrāmagnisamāṃ tasya prātaḥ prātaḥ prayojayet/ eṣa vṛṣyaḥ paraṃ yogo balyo bṛṃhaṇa eva ca// śatāvaryā vidāryāśca tathā māṣātmaguptayoḥ/ śvadaṃṣṭrāyāśca &niṣkvāthāñjaleṣu ca pṛthak pṛthak// &\`niṣkvāthanalvaṇeṣu pṛthak pṛthak' iti pā-. sādhayitvā ghṛtaprasthaṃ payasyaṣṭaguṇe punaḥ/ śarkarāmadhuyuktaṃ tadapatyārthī prayojayet// (ityapatyakaraṃ ghṛtam/) > Eaten and drunk, that soup produces inexhaustible semen. > (Thus ends the virilising buffalo soup.) > He who eats fresh fish or well-fried carp > in heated ghee would not suffer exhaustion among women. > One desiring offspring should consume rohita fish fried in ghee, in goat meat soup, > blended with fruit juice, unctuous, with soup drunk afterwards. > (Thus ends the virilising fish fried in ghee.) > One should cook pancakes in ghee from minced fish > combined with asafoetida, rock salt, and coriander, along with wheat flour. > And one should cook fish in buffalo meat soup, unctuous, sour, and salted; > when the soup is reduced, one should mash the flesh and toss in there: > black pepper, cumin, coriander, a little asafoetida, and fresh ghee; > one should prepare that as stuffing for pancakes of māṣa. > These two pancake formulations are nourishing, strength-increasing, > givers of excitement and good fortune, productive of sons, and supremely semen-increasing. > (Thus end the two virilising pancake formulations.) > A dough of māṣa, ātmaguptā, wheat, śāli, and ṣaṣṭika rice, > with powder of sugar, vidārī, and ikṣuraka, > mixed in smooth milk, one should cook into pancakes in ghee; > taken with milk as an after-drink, they quickly produce supreme virility. > (Thus end the virilising pancakes of māṣa and other ingredients.) > There should be one tulā of sugar, one of cow's ghee, > a prastha of vidārī powder, and also a prastha of long pepper, > half an āḍhaka of tugākṣīrī, and \[the same of\] fresh honey; > all that, thoroughly mixed, should be kept in an earthen vessel coated with ghee. > One should administer a dose of it equal to one's digestive fire every morning; > this formulation is supremely virilising, strengthening, and nourishing. > Having prepared separate decoctions in water of śatāvarī and vidārī, > as well as of māṣa, ātmaguptā, and śvadaṃṣṭrā, > and then cooking a prastha of ghee in eight times as much milk, > one desiring offspring should consume it mixed with sugar and honey. > (Thus ends the offspring-producing ghee.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.2.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.2.4.1) - [Next: 6.2.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.2.4.3) - [Up: 6.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.2.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.6.2.4.2) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.2.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.2.4.2) · Pramāṇa