The Compendium of Caraka 6.2
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6.2.1.1
Now we shall expound the quarter on virilisation [beginning with] the roots of reed and arrow-grass.
A self-possessed man should constantly pursue virilisation,
for duty and wealth, as well as pleasure and fame, depend on it.
For this is the abode of a son, and these virtues rest upon sons;
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.
6.2.1.2
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.
6.2.1.3
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.)
6.2.1.4
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.
6.2.1_2
Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya.
6.2.1_1
(Thus ends the virilising egg fluid.)
6.2.1_3
And here are [the verses]:
6.2.1_1_2
When the channels are cleansed in a spotless body, and a man eats virilising [food] in proper measure at the right time,
by that a human becomes supremely virile; and that is nourishing and strength-granting.
6.2.1_4
Here are the two verses:
6.2.1_1_3
The efficacy of virilisation, which woman is a field for whom,
the faults of the childless, and the virtues of those who have sons,
6.2.1_1_4
Thus, in the treatise composed by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, in the section on therapeutics, in the chapter on virilisation, the first quarter on virilisation named Combination with the Roots of Reed and Arrow-grass is finished. // 1
6.2.2
Now we shall expound the quarter on virilisation named Poured with Milk.
Having pounded well in a mortar clean, un-dried ṣaṣṭika rice filled with milk poured into it,
one should press it after it has been kneaded with milk.
Taking that strained juice together with cow’s milk,
and with the juice of seeds of ātmaguptā and of wild māṣa,
as well as of balā, the two śūrpaparṇīs, jīvantī, and jīvaka,
ṛddhi, ṛṣabhaka, kākolī, śvadaṃṣṭrā, and madhuka,
śatāvarī, vidārī, and also drākṣā and kharjūra,
the physician should cook it in proper measure, and should throw into it
the powders of tugākṣīrī, māṣa, śāli rice, ṣaṣṭika rice,
and wheat, by which that decoction becomes thick.
And once it has become thick, he should add copious honey and sugar,
make pills the size of jujube fruits, and fry them in ghee.
Using them according to his digestive power, eating milk and meat broth,
even an old man beholds vast, imperishable offspring born of himself.
(Thus the offspring-producing ṣaṣṭika pill, etc.)
A physician should collect the semens of sparrows, geese,
cocks, peafowl,
porpoises, and crocodiles,
cow’s ghee, fat of the boar and of the sparrow,
powder of ṣaṣṭika rice, and powder of wheat.
With these, small cakes, crisps, rolls,
pancakes, roasted grains, and various other kinds of sweetmeats should be made.
By using these edible foods, a man approaches women at will like a stallion,
with an erect penis filled with semen.
(Thus the virilising preparations such as small cakes, etc.)
One should cook the fruit of ātmaguptā, māṣa, dates, śatāvarī,
śṛṅgāṭaka, and raisins, one prasṛta each,
in one prastha of milk and one prastha of water; reduced to one prastha
and strained through a clean cloth, one should combine it with three prasṛtas
of sugar, tugākṣīrī, and fresh ghee.
He should drink it with honey, and eat ṣaṣṭika rice.
Even an old man afflicted with decrepitude and weak obtains vast offspring
by this formulation, and rejoices like a youth.
(Thus the offspring-producing extract.)
Date-palm crown, māṣa, payasyā, śatāvarī,
dates, madhūka, raisins, and ajaḍā fruit,
one pala each, the intelligent physician should cook in one āḍhaka of water;
with that reduced to a fourth, he should boil one prastha of milk.
With that remaining milk, along with sugar, he should eat ṣaṣṭika rice rich in ghee;
this combination is considered pre-eminently virilising.
(Thus the virilising milk.)
Jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, medā, jīvantī, the two śrāvaṇīs,
dates, madhuka, raisins, pippalī, dry ginger,
śṛṅgāṭaka, and vidārī, fresh ghee, milk, and water—
cooked until only the ghee remains, with a fourth part of sugar and honey—
should be taken with ṣaṣṭika rice according to one’s strength;
it is virilising, strength-giving, beneficial to the throat, and an excellent nourisher.
(Thus the virilising ghee.)
Cream of yoghurt resembling the autumn moon, free of flaws,
properly combined by the wise physician with sugar, honey, black pepper,
tugākṣīrī, and cardamom, and strained through a clean cloth into a fresh pot,
should be placed upon cooled ṣaṣṭika rice rich in ghee.
Having eaten that ṣaṣṭika rice, he should drink a measured dose of rasālā;
endowed with complexion, voice, and strength, a man behaves like a bull because of it.
(Thus the virilising use of yoghurt cream.)
Consuming ṣaṣṭika rice resembling moonbeams, cooked with milk, rich in ghee,
and combined with sugar and honey, one behaves like a bull.
(Thus the virilising use of ṣaṣṭika rice.)
A crocodile egg mixed with a cock's egg,
combined with ṣaṣṭika powder and fresh ghee,
cooked into small cakes in hot ghee, should be eaten by a man who drinks the scum of vāruṇī,
who desires to mount like a stallion and ejaculate like an elephant.
(Thus the virilising small cakes.)
And here are two verses:
By these formulations used according to rule, a man becomes handsome, endowed with virility, possessing strength and complexion,
filled with excitement like an eight-year-old horse, and capable with excellent women.
Whatever is dear to the mind—delightful woodlands, river sands, mountains,
beloved women, ornaments, perfumes, garlands, and cherished companions—all that is suitable here.
6.2.2_2
Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya.
6.2.2_3
Here is a verse:
6.2.2_1
The eight formulations proclaimed in the quarter Poured with Milk
should be used by those who desire offspring and who seek manhood.
6.2.2_2_2
Thus, in the treatise composed by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, in the section on therapeutics, in the chapter on virilisation, the second quarter on virilisation named Poured with Milk is finished. // 2
6.2.3
Now we shall explain the quarter on virilisation called Nourished on Māṣaparṇī.
A wise man should keep a cow nourished on māṣaparṇī, that has calved once, is well-fed, four-teated,
with a calf of the same colour, and whose calf is living;
or red, or black, with upright horns, not fierce,
eating sugarcane or arjuna, and possessing thick milk.
Her milk alone, whether boiled or unboiled,
combined with sugar, honey, and ghee, is an excellent viriliser.
Milk prepared separately with each of the semen-producing, vitalising,
nourishing, strength-increasing,
and milk-generating drugs,
combined with wheat flour, together with ghee, honey, and sugar,
should be used in alternation by one who desires inexhaustible semen.
Medā, payasyā, jīvantī, vidārī, kaṇṭakārikā,
śvadaṃṣṭrā, kṣīrikā, māṣa, wheat, and śāli and ṣaṣṭika grains—
one karṣa each, cooked in an āḍhaka of milk with half as much water,
one should boil it down until only the milk remains. Strained,
and combined with honey, ghee, and sugar, even an old man of seventy, having drunk it,
obtains abundant offspring and rejoices like a youth.
Milk of that very same cow, boiled with rings of gold
and combined with ghee, honey, and sugar, is proven to produce offspring.
Thirty well-crushed pippalīs, fried in a prakuñca of sesame oil and ghee,
with sugar and honey, milked into directly from the udder with a stream of milk,
having drunk according to one's strength, and then
eating ṣaṣṭika rice with milk and ghee, a man will not see his penis flaccid or dripping all night.
(Thus ends the virilising formulation of pippalī.)
In the juice of śvadaṃṣṭrā and vidārī with four times as much milk,
a māṣa-and-ṣaṣṭika milk-pudding prepared rich in ghee is a viriliser.
(Thus ends the virilising milk-pudding formulation.)
Of vitalising, unctuous, appetite-stimulating fruits
there should be a kuḍava in powder, and of cowhage seeds a kuḍava;
a kuḍava of māṣa, two each of sesame and mudga;
of wheat and śāli flour there should be a kuḍava each;
and one kuḍava of ghee—all that kneaded with milk,
he who has many women should cook and eat as cakes.
(Thus ends the virilising cakes.)
A medicated ghee containing śatāvarī in its paste should be cooked in tenfold milk;
combined with sugar, pippalī, and honey, it is an excellent viriliser.
(Thus ends the virilising śatāvarī ghee.)
He who takes a karṣa of madhuka powder with equal parts of ghee and honey
and drinks milk afterward will have an unending urge.
(Thus ends the virilising madhuka formulation.)
A youth who eats ghee and milk, is fearless, free from disease, constantly active,
and always intent on desire acts like a bull among women.
Those who have accomplished a common goal, who have achieved their aims, who follow one another,
who are skilled in the arts, equal in courage and in age,
endowed with noble family, greatness, courtesy, good character, and purity,
who are ever passionate, joyous, free from sorrow, their suffering gone,
who are of equal disposition, devoted, beloved, and speak kindly—
with such trustworthy, good friends, a man acts like a bull.
Through massage, unction, bathing, perfumes, garlands, and ornaments,
through the comforts of house, bed, and seat, through fresh, pleasant garments,
through the pleasing calls of birds and the sounds of women's jewellery,
and through the rubbings of choice and beloved women, he acts like a bull.
Water reservoirs covered with lotuses, frequented by impassioned bees,
cool inner rooms fragrant with jasmine and blue water-lilies,
rivers with garments of foam, mountains with dark peaks,
the rising of dark clouds, nights with pleasant moonrise,
winds of delightful touch carrying the fragrance of white water-lily ponds,
nights capable of sensual enjoyment, where saffron and agallochum are dear,
pleasant companions, blooming forest-edges echoing with cuckoos, clear food and drink,
sounds of music and fragrant compounds, vast and undisturbed mental strength,
success in one's aims, fresh desire, and a woman—all this is the weaponry of the mind-born god here;
youth, fresh and impassioned season—these are the supreme source of sexual arousal for men.
6.2.3_2
Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya.
6.2.3_3
Here is a verse:
6.2.3_1
Fifteen formulations that are sources of arousal,
which bestow semen and strength, have been explained in this quarter Nourished on Māṣaparṇī.
6.2.3_2_2
Thus, in the treatise composed by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, in the section on therapeutics, in the chapter on virilisation, the third quarter on virilisation named Nourished on Māṣaparṇī is finished. // 3
6.2.4.1
Now we shall expound the quarter on virilisation beginning with "When a Man Has Gained Strength".
How a man, once he has gained strength, may approach women as much as he desires,
and how he may quickly become possessed of offspring—that will be taught.
For not all men who have gained strength are blessed with offspring;
some of large body and strong are weak with women.
And some of small frame are strong with women and have many progeny;
some are weak by constitution, and some are weakened by disease.
Some men approach a woman repeatedly like a sparrow,
while some discharge like an elephant, but do not copulate often.
Some possess strength due to season and circumstances, some are steady through habituation;
some are made potent through efforts, while some are virile by nature.
Therefore, we shall explain regimens that bestow strength to the weak,
provide easy enjoyment to the strong, and further increase their strength.
Having first purified the body with unctuous and non-unctuous enemas,
one desiring strength should administer preparations that increase semen and offspring.
Enemas combined with ghee, oil, meat soup, milk, sugar, and honey
should be administered to those who eat a diet of milk and meat soup.
Having pounded pork, added black pepper and rock salt,
and made pills the size of a jujube berry, one should roll them in heated ghee.
And hardened by rolling, they should be thrown into chicken soup
rich in ghee, fragrant with spices, and blended with yoghurt and pomegranate juice.
One should cook that soup in such a way that the pills do not break;
drinking that soup and eating those pills, he obtains inexhaustible semen.
In this way the physician should prepare pills from other fatty meats
along with soup; their use increases semen.
(Thus end the virilising meat pills.)
Sprouted, cleaned, dehusked māṣa together with seeds of ajaḍā
should be thrown, in measured quantity, into buffalo meat soup rich in ghee,
blended with yoghurt and pomegranate juice, along with coriander, cumin, and dry ginger.
6.2.4.2
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.)
6.2.4.3
One should cook a pātra of ghee in a hundred times as much fresh juice of vidārī;
when prepared, one should cook it again in a hundred times as much cow's milk.
Combined with one-fourth parts each of sugar, tugākṣīrī,
honey, ikṣuraka, long pepper, and ajaḍā,
the physician should make pills the size of a large udumbara fruit;
from their use, a man becomes excited like a sparrow.
(Thus end the virilising pills.)
A hundred palas of rock sugar, half of that of fresh ghee,
combined with a one-fourth part of honey, one should cook with a fourth part of water.
Spreading a quarter part of thick wheat flour on a clean, smooth,
wide stone slab, one should knead it into a paste.
Pure pancakes resembling the disc of the moon should be made;
from their use, a man can satisfy women like an elephant.
(Thus ends the virilising pancake.)
Whatever is sweet, unctuous, life-giving, nourishing, heavy,
and gladdening to the mind, all that is called virilising.
Therefore, saturated with such substances, one should approach a woman,
aroused by one's own urge and delighted by the woman's qualities.
Having copulated, bathed, and drunk milk or meat soup, a man should lie down;
in that way, his semen and strength are replenished further.
Just as the fragrance of a flower bud is not perceived,
but is perceived once it blossoms, so indeed is semen in embodied beings.
Not before sixteen years and not beyond seventy
should a man desiring longevity engage in union with women.
For a boy who is too young, whose tissues are all incomplete, in approaching a woman,
would dry up suddenly, like a pond with little water.
Just as wood that is dry, un-unctuous, insect-eaten, and dilapidated
crumbles quickly when touched, so does an old man in approaching women.
Through old age, anxiety, diseases, over-exertion from physical labor,
fasting, and excessive indulgence in women, semen suffers depletion.
From depletion, fear, lack of confidence, grief, seeing faults in a woman,
being insensitive to the aesthetic pleasure of women, absence of desire, and lack of indulgence—
even when well-nourished, one does not have the capacity to approach women.
6.2.4.4
Excitement depends on the strength of the body and the mind, and capacity is born of excitement. / Just as juice is present throughout sugarcane, ghee in curds, and oil in sesamum, / so semen is present throughout the entire body in the sense of touch. / In the union of woman and man, through movement, intention, and pressure, / that semen slips from its place, like water from a wet cloth. / Through excitement, through yearning, through mobility, through sliminess, and through heaviness, / through subtle fluidity, and through the speed of the wind— / from these eight causes, semen is poured out from the body. / What is called the substance of form of that manifold [semen] as it moves: / thick, sweet, unctuous, not foul-smelling, heavy, slimy, / white, and abundant—that semen is fruitful beyond doubt. / That by which a man attains capability with women like a stallion, / and by which he approaches them with great vigor, is indeed virilisation. / When women are not to be approached, the entire determination of semen, / and its definition are set forth here in [the section] beginning with "When a Man Has Gained Strength".
6.2.4_2
Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya.
6.2.4_3
Here are two summary verses:
6.2.4_1
The reason for teaching the formulations, the twelve excellent formulations, / what is to be consumed before intercourse, and what is to be consumed after intercourse—
6.2.4_1_2
Thus, in the compendium composed by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, in the section on Therapeutics, in the chapter on Virilisation, the fourth quarter of virilisation entitled "When a Man Has Gained Strength" is concluded.
6.2.4_2_2
And thus concludes this second chapter on virilisation.
Linked texts (1)
- Carakasaṃhitā — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit