The Compendium of Caraka 7.6: ṣaṣṭho 'adhyāyaḥ/
Carakasaṃhitā 7.6
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ṣaṣṭho 'adhyāyaḥ/
7.6.1
athātaḥ kṛtavedhanakalpaṃ vyākhyāsyāmaḥ//
Now, therefore, we shall explain the chapter on the formulation of kṛtavedhana.
7.6.2
iti ha smāha bhagavānātreyaḥ//
Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya:
7.6.3
kṛtavedhananāmāni kalpaṃ cāsya nibodhata/
kṣveḍaḥ kośātakī &coktaṃ mṛdaṅgaphalameva ca//
Learn the names and formulation of kṛtavedhana: / kṣveḍa, kośātakī, and mṛdaṅgaphala are its names.
7.6.4
atyarthakaṭukīkṣṇoṣṇaṃ gāḍheṣviṣṭaṃ gadeṣu ca//
kuṣṭhapāṇḍvāmayaplīhaśophagulmagarādiṣu//
It is exceedingly pungent, sharp, and hot, and desired in deep-seated diseases: / in dermatosis, anemia, splenomegaly, edema, abdominal swelling, artificial poison, and the like.
7.6.5
kṣīrādi &kusumādīnāṃ surā caiteṣu pūrvavat/
suśuṣkāṇāṃ tu &jīrṇānāmekaṃ dve vā yathābalam//
The milk and the like of the flowers and others, and liquor, are used among these as before. / But of the thoroughly dried and mature [fruits], one or two according to strength,
7.6.6
kaṣāyairmadhukādīnāṃ navabhiḥ phalavat pibet/
kvāthayitvā &phalaṃ tasya pūtvā lehaṃ nidhāpayet//
one should drink with the nine decoctions of madhuka and the rest, like madana fruit. / Having boiled its fruit and strained it, one should prepare an electuary:
7.6.7
kṛtavedhanakalkāṃśaṃ &phalādyardhāṃśasaṃyutam/
pṛthak cāragvadhādīnāṃ trayodaśabhirāsutam//
one part of paste of kṛtavedhana, combined with half a part of the fruit and others, / infused separately with thirteen [decoctions] of āragvadha and the rest,
7.6.8
&śālmalīmūlacūrṇānāṃ picchābhirdaśanbhistathā/
&vartikriyāḥ ṣaṭ phalavat, phalādīnāṃ ghṛtaṃ tathā//
and likewise with ten mucilaginous extracts of powders of śālmalī roots; / six suppository preparations like madana fruit, likewise the clarified butter of the fruit and others.
7.6.9
kośātakāni pañcāśat kovidārarase pacet/
taṃ kaṣāyaṃ phalādīnāṃ kalkairlehaṃ punaḥ pacet//
One should cook fifty kośātakas in the juice of kovidāra; / that decoction one should cook again into an electuary with pastes of the fruit and others.
7.6.10
kṣveḍasya tatra bhāgaḥ syāccheṣāṇyardhāṃśikāni tu/
kaṣāyaiḥ &kovidārādyairevaṃ tat kalpayet pṛthak//
There should be one part of kṣveḍa, but the rest half-parts; / one should prepare that separately in this way with decoctions of kovidāra and the rest.
7.6.11
kaṣāyeṣu phalādīnāmānūpaṃ piśitaṃ pṛthak/
kośātakyā samaṃ paktvā rasaṃ salavaṇaṃ pibet//
In decoctions of the fruit and others, having cooked marshy meat separately / with an equal amount of kośātakī, one should drink the salted broth.
7.6.12
phalādipippalītulyaṃ tadvat kṣveḍarasaṃ pibet/
kṣveḍaṃ &kāsī pibet siddhaṃ miśramikṣurasena ca//
Equal to the fruit-seeds and the others, one should likewise drink the juice of kṣveḍa. / One suffering from cough should drink cooked kṣveḍa mixed with sugarcane juice.
7.6.13
tatra ślokau---
Here are two verses:
7.6.13_1
kṣīre dvau dvau surā caikā kvāthā dvāviṃśatistathā/
daśa picchā ghṛtaṃ caikaṃ ṣaṭ ca vartikriyāḥ śubhāḥ//
Two in milk, two [in each], and one in liquor, likewise twenty-two decoctions, / ten mucilages, and one clarified butter, and six auspicious suppository preparations;
7.6.14
lehe 'aṣṭau sapta māṃse ca yoga ikṣurase 'aparaḥ/
kṛtavedhanakalpe 'asmin ṣaṣṭiryogāḥ prakīrtitāḥ//
eight in electuary, and seven in meat, and another formulation in sugarcane juice; / in this chapter on the formulation of kṛtavedhana, sixty formulations are proclaimed.
7.6.14_1
ityagniveśakṛte tantre carakapratisaṃskṛte 'aprāpte dṛḍhabalasaṃpūrite kalpasthāne kṛtavedhanakalpo nāma ṣaṣṭho 'adhyāyaḥ//6//
Thus, in the treatise composed by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, and, being incomplete, completed by Dṛḍhabala, in the Section on Formulation, the sixth chapter, titled "The Formulation of Kṛtavedhana." //6
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