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Fol. 8: Bower manuscript r1 śanair mṛdvagninā pacet\* / susiddhaṃ cainam ājñāya paripūtaṃ nidhāpayet\* // 214 // ye kecid vyādhayaḥ kāye kaphānilasamudbhavāḥ / teṣāṃ prāyogikaṃ śreṣṭhaṃ ghṛtam etad vidhīyate // 215 // {X} 2 mūlakaghṛtaṃ nāma ślo 6 {X} laśunasya śataṃ vidvāñ jaladroṇe vipācayet\* / caturbhāgāvaśeṣaṃ ca kaṣāyam avatārayet\* // 216 // tena vaidyaḥ kaṣāyena vipaceta ghṛtāḍhakam\* / 3 kalkapeṣyāṇi caitāni siddhyamāne pradāpayet\* // 217 // karṣaṃ citrakamūlasya pippalīkarṣam eva ca / cavyāyāś ca bhavet karṣaḥ śṛṃgaverapalaṃ tathā // 218 // lavaṇānāṃ 4 ca pañcānāṃ palārdhaṃ cāmblavetasāt\* / tathā rāmaṭhakasyāpi hiṃguno 'tra palaṃ bhavet\* // 219 // tat siddhaṃ nisrutaṃ samyak suguptaṃ taṃ nidhāpayet\* / tato mātrāṃ pibet\* kāle 5 śṛṇu me yeṣu tad dhitam\* // 220 // vātaṣṭhīlāsu gṛdhrasyāṃ vātagulme plihodare / vātaśleṣmātipāṇḍūnām arśassv atha bhagandare // 221 // ekāṃgarogiṇāṃ dadyāt\* 6 tathā sarvāṃgarogiṇām\* / laśunādyaṃ ghṛtaṃ hy etad aśvibhyāṃ saṃprakalpitam\* // 222 // {X} āśvinaṃ laśunakaṃ nāma ghṛtaṃ ślo 7 {X} ghṛtaṃ daśaguṇe 7 toye sādhayed ājalakṣayāt\* / tato daśaguṇe toye sādhyam āmalakaṃ tathā // 223 // daśabhāgāvaśiṣṭe 'smin ghṛtaprasthaṃ vipācayet\* / 8 tato yathābalaṃ mātrāṃ pāyayej jvarakāśitam\* // 224 // sarvajvaraharaṃ sarpir etad brahmābhipūjitam\* / dīrghakālaṃ prayuktaṃ tu bhaved 9 balyaṃ rasāyanam\* // 225 // {X} jvaraharam āśvinaṃ nāma ghṛtaṃ ślo 3 {X} viṃśad āmalakān dadyād viṃśatiṃ ca harītakīḥ / vibhītakāni viṃśac ca trāyamāṇapalaṃ 10 bhavet\* // 226 // tathaiva tiktarohiṇyā gulūcyāś ca palaṃ bhavet\* / toyārdhakaṃse siddhaṃ tu caturbhāgāvaśeṣitam\* // 227 // parārdhyaṃ kuḍavenaitad ghṛtamaṇḍam 11 adhiśrayet\* / tatra kalkīkṛtāni syur āvapeta navāni ha // 228 // pippalīnāṃ palārdhaṃ ca trivṛtārdhapalaṃ tathā / v1 kaṃpilyakacaturthāṃśaṃ daśa syān niculāni ca // 229 // tat siddhaṃ nisrutaṃ peyaṃ pāṇḍukāmalanāśanam\* / gulmavardhmapramehīnāṃ 2 śvayathau kuṣṭharogiṇām\* // 230 // śiśnavyādhyudarāṇāṃ ca udāvartajvareṣu ca / vairodhyānāñ ca vyādhīnāṃ pathyaṃ siddhottaraṃ ghṛtaṃ // 231 // {X} siddhottaraṃ nāma ghṛtaṃ ślo 6 {X} 3 dantīcitrakamūlānām aṣṭau kurvīta sannakhān\* / abhayāviṃśatiṃ gurvyaḥ ṣaṭpalaṃ devadāru ca // 232 // nīṃvakadaṃbaṃ varaṇaṃ rājavṛkṣaṃ punarnavām\* / ciribilvatvacaṃ caiva 4 pṛthak ṣaṭpalikaḥ smṛtāḥ // 233 // dve paṃcamūle saṃhṛtya pṛthag āḍhakasaṃmite / vipācayed apān droṇe sārase mṛdunāgninā // 234 // caturbhāgāvaśeṣaṃ tat kaṣāyam 5 avatārayet\* / ghṛtāḍhake pacet tasmin peṣyāṃś cemān pradāpayet\* // 235 // pippalī pippalīmūlaṃ cavyaṃ ca maricāni ca 6 lavaṇānāñ ca pañcānām āvaped ekakārṣikān\* // 236 // etad dhānvantaraṃ sarpiḥ sarvaroganibarhaṇam\* / paṃcagulmān abhivyaktān aṣṭau codaravṛddhayaḥ // 237 // 7 śvayathuṃ śoṣam arśāṃsi pramehāṃś caikaviṃśati / dīpayed grahaṇīṃ mandāṃ kuṣṭhān bahuvidhāñ jayet\* // 238 // ahīnāṃ mūṣikānāṃ ca yac ca syāt kṛttrimaṃ viṣam\* / 8 sarvāhāreṣv aniyamo bṛṃhaṇo dehamātmanaḥ // 239 // etad dhānvantaraṃ sarpiḥ śreṣṭhaṃ brahmābhipūjitam\* / yathāvat saṃprayuṃjānaḥ prāpnuyāt siddhim uttamām iti // 240 // {X} dhānvantaraṃ ślo 9 9 {X} candanaṃ syād uśīraṃ ca padmakaṃ kuruvindakam\* / trāyamāṇāṃ samāṃ dadyāt tathā candanaśārivām\* // 241 // tathā prativiṣāṃ caiva tathā tāmalakī bhavet\* / caturguṇe jale vaidyo ghṛtaprasthaṃ 10 vipācayet\* // 242 // tad dhi pītaṃ pramehīnāṃ raktapittakṣayeṣu ca / arśasāṃ bhinnavarcānāṃ pāṇḍuroge ca tad dhitam\* // 243 // praṇuded grahaṇīdoṣāṃs tvagdoṣāṃś ca śarīriṇām\* / sarpir etad bhavet 11 pathyaṃ viṣaghnam amṛtopamam\* // 244 // {X} viṣaharan nāma ghṛtam aśvinaṃ ślo 4 {X} citrakaṃ trivṛtāṃ caiva śyāmaṃ ca palikāni tu / > II. Fol. 8: Bower manuscript > One should cook \[it\] slowly over a gentle fire; and having known it to be well cooked, one should store it, thoroughly strained. // 214 > Whatever diseases arise in the body from phlegm and wind humours, > for them this foremost ghee is prescribed for regular use. // 215 > \[Named\] Mūlaka Ghee: 6 verses. > A wise physician should boil one hundred \[bulbs\] of garlic in a droṇa of water, > and take down the decoction when reduced to a fourth part. // 216 > With that decoction the physician should cook an āḍhaka measure of ghee, > and while it is cooking he should add these ground paste-ingredients: // 217 > a karṣa measure of plumbago root, and a karṣa measure of long pepper, > and there should be a karṣa measure of wild pepper, as well as a pala measure of ginger; // 218 > and half a pala measure of the five salts, and \[half a pala measure\] of amlavetasa, > likewise there should be a pala measure of rāmaṭha, which is asafoetida. // 219 > When cooked, thoroughly strained, one should store it well guarded. > Then one should drink the \[proper\] dose at the \[proper\] time; hear from me \[the diseases\] in which it is beneficial: // 220 > in wind-induced gravel, in sciatica, in wind-gulma, in enlargement of the spleen and abdomen, > for those \[suffering\] from excessive pallor due to wind and phlegm humours, in hemorrhoids, and then in fistula-in-ano; // 221 > one should give \[it\] to those suffering from disease in one limb, > as well as to those suffering from disease in all limbs. > For this garlic-based ghee was indeed devised by the two Aśvins. // 222 > The ghee named Āśvina Garlic \[Ghee\]: 7 verses. > One should cook ghee in tenfold water until the water is exhausted; > then emblic myrobalan likewise is to be cooked in tenfold water. // 223 > When this is reduced to a tenth part, one should cook a prastha measure of ghee \[in it\]. > Then one should cause one emaciated by fever to drink a dose according to strength. // 224 > This clarified butter destroys all fevers and is revered by Brahmā; > used for a long period, it becomes > a tonic promoting strength. // 225 > The Āśvina ghee destroying fever: 3 verses. > One should take twenty emblic myrobalans, twenty chebulic myrobalans, > and twenty belleric myrobalans; and there should be a pala measure of trāyamāṇā; // 226 > likewise there should be a pala measure of tiktarohiṇī and of guḍūcī; > boiled in half a kaṃsa measure of water, reduced to a fourth part, // 227 > one should put on the fire this choice scum of ghee with a kuḍava measure \[of decoction\]. > There one should throw in these fresh substances made into paste: // 228 > half a pala measure of long peppers and half a pala measure of trivṛt, > a fourth part \[of a pala measure\] of kampillaka, and there should be ten \[fruits of\] nicula. // 229 > That, cooked and strained, is to be drunk, destroying jaundice and chlorosis, > for those suffering from gulma, scrotal enlargement, urinary disorder, > in edema, for those suffering from skin disease, // 230 > for penile disease, abdominal enlargements, in upward movement of wind and in fevers, > and for diseases caused by incompatible foods, this Siddhottara Ghee is wholesome. // 231 > The ghee named Siddhottara: 6 verses. > One should take eight handfuls of roots of dantī and plumbago, > twenty heavy chebulic myrobalans, and six pala measures of devadāru, // 232 > neem, kadamba, varaṇa, cassia, punarnavā, > and the bark of ciribilva are traditionally taught to be six pala measures each. // 233 > Gathering the two sets of five roots, measured at an āḍhaka each, > one should boil them in a droṇa of lake water over a gentle fire. // 234 > One should take down that decoction when reduced to a fourth part. > One should cook it in an āḍhaka measure of ghee and add these ground ingredients: // 235 > long pepper, long pepper root, wild pepper, and black pepper; > and one should throw in one karṣa measure each of the five salts. // 236 > This clarified butter of Dhanvantari is the destroyer of all diseases; > \[it cures\] the five manifest gulmas, and the eight abdominal enlargements, // 237 > edema, consumption, hemorrhoids, and the twenty-one urinary disorders; > it enkindles weak digestive fire and overcomes skin diseases of various kinds. // 238 > And whatever poison there may be from snakes, rats, and artificial poisons; > there is no restriction on all foods, and it nourishes one's own body. // 239 > This clarified butter of Dhanvantari is foremost, revered by Brahmā; > employing it properly, one attains supreme success. // 240 > \[The ghee of\] Dhanvantari: 9 verses. > There should be sandalwood, and uśīra, padmaka, kuruvindaka; > one should add an equal amount of trāyamāṇā, as well as candana-śārivā, // 241 > likewise prativiṣā, and there should be tāmalakī; > the physician should cook a prastha measure of ghee in fourfold water. // 242 > For that, drunk, is beneficial for those suffering from urinary disorder, and in internal hemorrhage and phthisis; > for hemorrhoids, loose stools, and in jaundice it is beneficial; // 243 > it dispels digestive disorders and skin diseases of embodied beings; > this clarified butter, destroying poison, resembles nectar and is wholesome. // 244 > The Āśvina ghee destroying poison: 4 verses. > Plumbago, trivṛt, and black trivṛt, one pala measure each, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.9) - [Next: 11.256](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.11.256) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.10) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.10) · Pramāṇa