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# The Bower Manuscript 1.11

Bower Manuscript 1.11

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.1.11)

6 pravadanti rogāṃs teṣāṃ yathoktaṃ vidadhīta śāntim\* // 102 // naktāndhataimiryaśirorttidāhaṃ pittātmikāṃ cakṣurujāṃ sadāhām\* / doṣās tathānye 'pi mukhatvacasthāḥ śāmyanti sadyo  
7 vadanapralepāt\* // 103 // akṣṇor vikāre kaphamārutābhyaṃ nastaḥkṛte pīnasarogiṇāṃ ca / hanugrahe śirṣarujāsu caiva vadanti varjyān vadanapralepān\* // 104 // aṃgulasya caturbhāgo  
8 mukhalepo vidhīyate / madhyamas tu tribhāgaḥ syād antyas tv ardhāṃgulo bhavet\* // 105 // yaṣṭihvarodhraṃ triphalā mṛṇālaṃ sitopalāṃ kāṃcanagairikaṃ ca / patratvagelāguru devadāru punarnavā vyāghranakhāṃjanaṃ ca // 106 //  
9 manaḥśilālaṃ bṛhatītvacaṃ ca māṃsīhareṇuṃ paripelavaṃ ca / sauvīrakaṃ gairikakaṭphalaṃ ca syāc chārivā śarkarayā vimiśrā // 107 // ity ardharūpaiś caturaḥ pradiṣṭāḥ kaphāsrapittānilarogaśāntau /  
10 viḍālakais tair nayanaṃ samantād ā pakṣmamūlāt pradihed bahir vā // 108 // rodhraṃ ca kiṃcit tu ghṛtena digdham ayovighṛṣṭām abhayām atho vā / tvacaṃ bṛhatyāḥ samam añjanaṃ ca viḍālakaḥ  
11 sarvarujāpahaḥ syāt\* // 109 // gairikarasāṃjanāṃjanamanaḥśilārītikusumasamabhāgāḥ / īṣanmaricasahīyā dviguṇaṃ .ai x x x x x x x x // 110 //  
v1 maricakusume ca haritaṃ vipacen mṛdvagninā ghṛtasahīyam\* / aṃjanaviḍālako 'yaṃ caturvivakṣyāma x x x // 111 // x x x x ^ \_ \_ ^ goktakhālitya \_ ^ \_ / x x x x ^ \_ \_ ^  
2 procyamānaṃ nibodhata // 112 // rasadoṣād vyavāyāc ca pittaśoṇitadūṣaṇāt\* / bhavaty akālapalitaṃ vṛddhasya jarasā bhavet\* // 114 // prāyeṇa śleṣmalā nāryāś chāyā śalya ^ \_ ^ \_ / .ū x x x

> 6 Night-blindness, timira, burning pain in the head, and ocular pain caused by the bile humour accompanied by burning, / as well as other humours situated in the skin of the face, subside immediately from a facial paste. // 103 // In an affection of the eyes caused by phlegm and wind humours, after a nasal application has been performed, and in patients with chronic coryza, / in lockjaw, and in headaches: they say facial pastes should be avoided. // 104 // A facial paste is prescribed to be a quarter of a finger's breadth \[thick\]; / the middling one should be a third part, while the last should be half a finger's breadth. // 105 // Liquorice, rodhra, the three myrobalans, lotus stalk, sugar candy, and golden ochre, / patra, cinnamon bark, cardamom, aguru, cedar, punarnavā, tiger's claw, and collyrium, // 106 // red arsenic, orpiment, bṛhatī bark, māṃsī, hareṇu, and paripelava, / sauvīraka, red ochre, kaṭphala, and śārivā, mixed with sugar: // 107 // thus, by these half-verses, four \[pastes\] are prescribed for the alleviation of diseases of the phlegm humour, blood, bile humour, and wind humour. / With these eye-pastes, one should smear around the eye up to the root of the eyelashes or on the outside. // 108 // And rodhra smeared with a little ghee, or chebulic myrobalan rubbed on an iron plate, / with bark of bṛhatī and an equal amount of collyrium, forms an eye-paste that removes all pains. // 109 // Red ochre, rasāñjana, collyrium, red arsenic, and brass flowers in equal parts, / along with a little black pepper, twice as much \[…\] // 110 // and in black pepper flowers, green, one should cook it over a gentle fire together with ghee. / This eye-paste collyrium, four \[…\] we shall explain \[…\] // 111 // \[…\] baldness \[…\] / \[…\] as it is being explained, learn! // 112 // From disturbance of the bodily fluids, from sexual intercourse, and from the vitiation of bile and blood, / premature greying occurs; in an aged person, it occurs through old age. // 113 // Mostly women possess phlegm humour \[…\] / \[…\] engaging in \[these\], they discharge corrupt menstrual blood. // 114  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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