[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Formularies](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga) › [The Bower Manuscript](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower) › 11.256 # The Bower Manuscript 11.256 Bower Manuscript 11.256 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [11.256](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.11.256) II. Fol. 9: Bower manuscript r1 dvāviṃśac ca harītakyo droṇārdhaṃ salilasya ca // 245 // caturbhāgāvaśeṣaṃ tat kaṣāyam avatārayet\* / tatas tena kaṣāyeṇa ghṛtaprasthaṃ vipācayet\* // 246 // nīlīkāyārdhakuḍavaṃ tat tvarkakṣīra \_ ^ \_ / x x x x sudhākṣīraṃ 2 garbhaṃ datvā vipācayet\* // 247 // etad bindughṛtaṃ nāma naikarogavināśanam\* / yāvantaḥ pibate bindūṃs tāvad vegān viricyate // 248 // udarāṇi plihān gulmān kuṣṭhāṇi ca garāṇi ca / 3 vātagulme ca nārīṇāṃ gaṇḍamālābhagandare // 249 // pittārśassūrdhvavāteṣu rogā ye sānnipātikāḥ / gadite garadatte ca madhumehe ca śasyate // 250 // {X} bindughṛtaṃ nāma {X} ślo 6 // sudhākṣīrapaleneha 4 dve pale sarpiṣaḥ pacet\* / kaṃpilyakapalaṃ caikaṃ śāṇārdhaṃ saindhavasya ca // 251 // tṛvṛtāyāḥ palaṃ caikaṃ kuḍavo 'malakīrasāt\* / toyakaṃsena vipacec chanair mṛdvagninā bhiṣak\* // 252 // etad bindughṛtaṃ 5 nāma aśvino 'numataṃ śubham\* / bindavaḥ pibate yāvat tāvad vegān viricyate // 253 // karṣapramāṇaṃ dātavyaṃ jaṭharīsopagulmayoḥ / tathā kacchaparogīṇāṃ yuñjīta matimān bhiṣak\* // 254 // uṣṇaṃ cānupibet 6 toyam alpatvāt tasya sarpiṣaḥ / eṣa gulmān sanicayān saśūlān saparigrahān\* // 255 // bhinatty ekaprayogena vāyurjaladharān iva / paṃcagulmabadhārthaṃ hi sarpir etat pravartitam\* // 256 // > II. Fol. 9: Bower manuscript > And twenty-two chebulic myrobalans, and half a droṇa of water // 245 > One should take down that decoction when one-fourth remains. Then, with that decoction, one should cook a prastha measure of ghee // 246 > Half a kuḍava measure of indigo, then milk of calotropis \[…\], adding spurge milk > as the paste, one should cook it. // 247 > This, named Bindughṛta, destroys many diseases. > As many drops as one drinks, with so many bouts one is purged: // 248 > Enlargements of the abdomen, spleen diseases, abdominal tumours, skin afflictions, and artificial poisons; > in wind-abdominal tumours of women, in cervical lymphadenitis, and in anal fistula; // 249 > in bile-haemorrhoids, in upward wind, in those diseases born of all three humours, > in slow-poisoning, in administered poison, and in diabetes it is commended. // 250 // Bindughṛta. Six verses. // In this matter, with one pala measure of spurge milk, > one should cook two pala measures of clarified butter; and one pala measure of kampillaka, and half a śāṇa measure of rock salt; // 251 > and one pala measure of trivṛt, a kuḍava measure of emblic myrobalan juice, > one should cook with a kaṃsa measure of water, slowly over a gentle fire, \[as\] a physician. // 252 // This Bindughṛta > by name, approved by the Aśvins, is auspicious. > As many drops as one drinks, with so many bouts one is purged. // 253 > A karṣa measure should be given in ascites and abdominal tumour; > likewise, for patients suffering from turtle-like swelling, the wise physician should administer it. // 254 > And one should drink warm water afterwards because of the small quantity of that clarified butter. > This breaks up abdominal tumours with accumulation, with pain, and with grasping, // 255 > with a single application, like the wind \[scatters\] the clouds. > Indeed, to destroy the five abdominal tumours this clarified butter was instituted, // 256 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.10) - [Next: 11.261](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.11.261) - [Up: 11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.11) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.11.256) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Gadanigraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.gadanigraha.3.226) — Soḍhala, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.11.256](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.11.256) · Pramāṇa