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# The Bower Manuscript 1.9

Bower Manuscript 1.9

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.1.9)

2 āścyotanaṃ śarkarayā vimiśraṃ pittānilārttiṃ vinivartayeta // nataṃ śvadaṃṣṭrā bṛhatī tvacaṃ ca hrīveram ity eṣa śṛtas tv ajānām\* // 81 // kṣīrodakaiḥ saindhavasaṃprayuktam āścyotanaṃ vātakaphāpahaṃ syāt\* // \_ \_ ^  
3 dārvyā madhukaṃ ca mukhyaṃ gavye payasyāt kvathitaḥ striyā vā // 82 // āścyotano mārutaraktapitte saśarkaraḥ sadbhiṣajā vidheyaḥ // cūrṇāni sūkṣmāṇi phalatravasya badhva site kṣaumapaṭaikadeśe // 83 // āje payasyaṃganayā  
4 jale vā pariplutaṃ sarvarujāpahaṃ syāt\* // dārvīṃ haridrāṃ triphalāṃ samustaṃ saśarkaraṃ mākṣikasaṃprayuktam\* // 84 // āścyotanaṃ mānuṣadugdhayuktaṃ pittāsravātāpaham agryam uktam\* // eraṇḍamūlais taruṇaiḥ  
5 sapatraiḥ kalkair atho ṣaṣṭikataṇḍulānām\* // 85 // ghṛtāplutaṃ śāvarakaṃ praliptaṃ pūrveṇa kalpena rujāpahaṃ syāt\* // 86 // svedapuṭapākanābanatarpanaghṛtapānalepapariṣekān\* / āścyotananirdiṣṭair  
6 dravyair etaiḥ prakalpayīta bhiṣak\* // 87 // ṛtuvyādhihitābhīluvyaṃganīlīkanāśanān\* / viṣaṣothāpahaṃś caiva mukhalepān pracakṣate // 88 // tvakkṣīriṇāṃ candanapadmakau ca gundrāṃ mṛṇālaṃ  
7 ghanabālakau ca / mūlaṃ kuśānāṃ tagarailavālu tālīsapatraṃ naladaṃ tilāś ca // 89 // masūradūrvāmayavaṃ mṛṇālaṃ rasaś ca yaṣṭīmadhukotpalānām\* / śaileyamustāguru  
8 jhāmakaṃ ca sthauṇeyakailā tagaraṃ tilāś ca // 90 // tvakpatrakuṣṭhāguru jhāmakaṃ ca māṃsīṃ hareṇuṃ paripelavaṃ ca / yaṣṭihvarodhrāguru candanaṃ ca punarnavā kṛṣṇatilā latā ca // 90 // ity ardharūpair

> applied as an eye drops mixed with sugar would turn back distress caused by bile and wind humours.  
> Tagara, gokhru, bṛhatī, cassia bark, and hrīvera—boiled with milk and water of goats, // 81  
> combined with rock salt, this would be an eye drops dispelling wind and phlegm humours.  
> \[...\] tree turmeric and prime licorice boiled in cow's milk or woman's \[milk\], // 82  
> administered as an eye drops with sugar by a good physician in \[disorders of\] wind humour, blood, and bile humour.  
> Having tied fine powders of the three fruits in a corner of white linen cloth, // 83  
> steeped in goat's milk, woman's \[milk\], or water, it would dispel all pain.  
> Tree turmeric, turmeric, the three myrobalans, with musta, with sugar, combined with honey, // 84  
> as an eye drops combined with human milk, is declared foremost in dispelling bile humour, blood, and wind humour.  
> With young castor roots together with leaves, or with pastes of sixty-day rice, // 85  
> flooded with ghee, applied as a śāvaraka plaster according to the previous rule, it would dispel pain. // 86  
> Fomentations, puṭapākas, nasal medicines, satiations, ghee-drinks, pastes, and sprinklings—  
> the physician should prepare these with the substances prescribed for eye drops. // 87  
> Face pastes are declared beneficial for seasonal disorders, destroying freckles and dark pigmentation,  
> and also dispelling poison and swelling. // 88  
> Bamboo manna, sandalwood, and padmaka, gundrā, lotus stalk,  
> musta and bālaka,  
> root of kuśa grass, tagara, elavālu, tālīsa leaf, spikenard, and sesame seeds; // 89  
> lentils, dūrvā grass, māṣa, barley, lotus stalk, and juice of licorice and water lilies,  
> lichen, musta, agallochum, jhāmaka, sthauṇeyaka, cardamom, tagara, and sesame seeds; // 90  
> cassia bark, tejapatra, kuṣṭha, agallochum, jhāmaka, spikenard, hareṇu, and paripelava,  
> licorice, lodh tree, agallochum, sandalwood, punarnavā, black sesame seeds, and latā: // 90  
> thus with these half-forms  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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