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# The Bower Manuscript 1.7

Bower Manuscript 1.7

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.1.7)

10 noddiṣṭaṃ dravan tatra jalaṃ matam\* // 58 // dadhimūtrapayaḥsarpiromaśṛṃgaśapheṣu ca / gavyaṃ prakalpayet sarvaṃ madhūnāṃ mākṣikodbhavam\* // 59 // dāḍimatvacayā  
11 sārdhaṃ kaṭutailaṃ vipācayet\* / karṇau bhagoṣṭhauliṃgaś ca sarva etena vardhati // 60 // citrakārdhaphalaṃ mūlāt tṛvṛtsātalayos tathā /  
12 x x xṃ dantimūlānāṃ karṣāṃ karṣaṃ pṛthak pṛthak // 61 // pippalyāḥ saindhavāc caiva tathā hiṃgvaṃblavetasāt\* / viṃśatiś cābhayā mukhyā  
I. Fol. 4: Bower manuscript  
r1 x x x x vipācayet\* // 62 // guḍasyāṣṭapalāt samyak kurvīta daśamodakān\* / ekaikaṃ bhakṣayet tasmād daśame daśame 'hani // 63 // doṣāṇāṃ pācanārthāya jalam uṣṇaṃ pibed anu / virekānte tataḥ snātvā sātmyam  
2 annaṃ prayojayet\* // 64 // nātra kaścit parīhāro vākkāyamanasāṃ sadā / sarvartuko narendrāṇāṃ vireko 'gastinirmitaḥ // 65 // jarāmṛtyupramathanaḥ sarvāmayavināśanaḥ / vṛṣyo rasāyanaś caiva  
3 medhārogyābhivardhanaḥ // 66 // nāputrāya pradātavyo nāśiṣyāya kathaṃcana / rājadviṣṭe na dātavyo ye cānye pāpacāriṇaḥ // 67 // dve paṃcamūle madhukaṃ guḍūcī rāsnāśvagandhāmaradāru pāṭhā / tvacaṃ bale  
4 dve tagaraṃ tilāś ca mūrvāṃ kulatthān naladaṃ ghanaṃ ca // 68 // punarnavāṃ veṇuphalatvacaṃ ca jīvanty athailāguru jīvakaś ca / eraṇḍamūlaṃ suphalaprarohaṃ kuraṇḍapuṣpāṇi  
5 mahauṣadhaṃ ca // 69 // dvābhyāṃ tribhir vā kvathitaṃ satoyam ājaṃ payo gavyam athāvikaṃ vā / sasaindhavaṃ kiṃcid ataḥ sukhoṣṇam āścyotanaṃ vātakṛte 'kṣiroge // 70 // dārvyutpalaṃ padmakatuṃgayāṣāmedāmṛṇālaṃ

> where a liquid is not specified, water is understood there. // 58  
> And among curds, urine, milk, clarified butter, hair, horns, and hooves,  
> one should use all from cows; among honeys, that produced by the honeybee. // 59  
> One should cook pungent oil with pomegranate peel;  
> the ears, vulva, lips, and penis all enlarge by means of this. // 60  
> Half a pala of root of plumbago, and likewise of turpeth and sātala,  
> \[...\] of danti roots, one karṣa each, // 61  
> and of long pepper, rock salt, and likewise asafetida and amlavetasa,  
> and twenty prime chebulic myrobalans \[...\] one should cook. // 62  
> From eight palas of jaggery, one should properly make ten pills;  
> one should eat one of them every tenth day. // 63  
> Afterward, one should drink hot water for the digestion of the humours;  
> then, at the end of the purgation, having bathed, one should consume wholesome food. // 64  
> Here there is never any restriction of speech, body, or mind;  
> this purgative, prepared by Agasti, is suited for kings in all seasons. // 65  
> It crushes old age and death, destroys all diseases,  
> is aphrodisiac, rejuvenating, and promotes intellect and health. // 66  
> It must never be given to one who is not a son, nor to one who is not a pupil;  
> it must not be given to an enemy of the king, nor to others who practice evil. // 67  
> The two pañcamūlas, licorice, guḍūcī, rāsnā, aśvagandhā, devadāru, pāṭhā,  
> cassia bark, the two balas, tagara, sesame seeds, mūrvā, horse gram, spikenard, musta, // 68  
> punarnavā, bamboo peel, jīvantī, cardamom, agallochum, jīvaka,  
> castor root, sprouts of suphala, kuraṇḍa flowers, and dry ginger: // 69  
> boiled with water using two or three \[of these\], goat's, cow's, or sheep's milk,  
> with a little rock salt, lukewarm—this eye drops is for eye disease caused by wind humour. // 70  
> Tree turmeric, blue water lily, padmaka, tuṅga, yāṣā, medā, lotus stalk,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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