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# The Bower Manuscript 1.4

Bower Manuscript 1.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.1.4)

6 prayujan\* / satataṃ ca bhaved ajīrṇaśaṃkī na ca khāded abahūni vāsarāṇi // 27 // atha kandāñ cchubhāñ cchlakṣṇān piṣṭān sarpiś ca tatsamam\* / khajenābhipramathyaitad ekadhyaṃ ghṛtabhājane // 28 //  
7 vyuṣṭaṃ daśāhāt prabhṛti bhakṣayed bilvasaṃmitam\* / jīrṇe ca rasakalpoktam āhāravidhim ācaret\* // 29 // dvāv apy etāv abhihitau kalpau prāgraharau mayā / anayor yatnavān  
8 nā syāt kalpān anyāñ cchṛṇuṣva me // 30 // kandāñ cchaṅkhābhān apahṛtamalān saktu kulmāsacukraiḥ sarpistailābhyāṃ samita vikṛtaiḥ sūpamāṃsaprakāraiḥ / maudgaiś cūrṇair haritakayutair  
9 gandhasauvarcalāḍhyair adyāt saṃskārair bahubhir aparaiḥ sādhitān vetarāṇi // 32 // māṃsaiḥ sārdhaṃ sādhayitvāsya kāṇḍaṃ pūtaṃ hṛdyaṃ taṃ rasaṃ pāyayīta / siddhaṃ tadvat kṣīram asmai  
10 pradadyād yūṣaṃ vā syād vaidalaṃ tadvimiśram\* // 32 // atha tailaśuktasahitaṃ laśunaṃ nihitaṃ yaveṣu parilipya mṛdā / sthitam ekam abdam upayujya naraḥ sucire sthitān  
11 api jahāti gadān\* // 33 // triratnam uṣitā tu gaur anatṛṇā yadā syāt tadā tṛṇārdham upakalpayel laśuna \_ ^ \_ \_ ^ \_ /  
I. Fol. 3: Bower manuscript  
r1 payodadhighṛtāni takram athavāpi tad brāhmaṇaḥ prayujya vividhān gadān abhivijitya śarmī bhavet\* // 34 // prasthān dvātriṃśal laśunarasataḥ  
2 kiṇvam ardhārdham asmāt tailaprastho vyapagatamalaḥ piṣṭataḥ ṣaṭ ca deyāḥ / dadyān nikvāthād api ca kalaśaṃ meṣaśṛṃgyāḥ  
3 suśītaṃ prasthau ca dvau punar abhiharet tatra piṣṭasya dhīmān\* // 35 // iti sureyaṃ paṃca paṃcāhād rasavarṇagandhaiḥ samanvitā

> applying \[it\]. And he should constantly fear indigestion, and should not eat for not a few days. // 27  
> Now, taking clean, smooth bulbs, ground, and clarified butter equal to them, / having stirred this together with a ladle into one in a vessel of ghee, // 28  
> left overnight, one should consume \[it\] starting after ten days in the quantity of a bael fruit; / and when it is digested, one should observe the dietary regimen taught in the treatise on the elixir. // 29  
> Both of these procedures have been declared by me as foremost among choices. / If a man should not make an effort with these two, hear from me other procedures: // 30  
> Bulbs gleaming like conch shells, cleared of dirt, with parched grain flour, gruel, and vinegar; / with clarified butter and sesame oil, preparations of flour, varieties of pulses and meat, / with powders of mung bean mixed with chebulic myrobalan, and enriched with fragrant black salt, / cooked by many other methods, he should eat, or by different ones. // 31  
> Having cooked its stalk along with meats, he should have him drink that strained, agreeable broth. / Likewise, he should give him boiled milk, or it may be vegetable soup mixed with it. // 32  
> Then garlic along with oil and vinegar, placed in barley after being smeared with mud / and kept for one year—a man who uses \[it\] leaves behind even long-standing diseases. // 33  
> When a cow has stayed three nights without eating grass, then one should arrange garlic \[amounting to\] half the grass; \[…\] / having consumed that milk, curd, clarified butter, or even buttermilk, a Brahmin will conquer various diseases and attain happiness. // 34  
> Thirty-two prastha measures of garlic juice, / half of half of this of ferment, a prastha measure of sesame oil freed from impurities, and six \[prasthas\] of paste should be added; / he should also add a jar of the decoction of meṣaśṛṅgī, / well cooled, and the wise man should again add two prastha measures of paste there. // 35  
> Thus, after five and twenty days this liquor is endowed with taste, colour, and fragrance,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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