The Compendium of Caraka 6.2.1.2

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.