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# The Bower Manuscript 11.261

Bower Manuscript 11.261

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [11.261](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.11.261)

7 sarvāsurabadhārthāya yathā vajraṃ svayaṃbhuvā / etad bindu ghṛtaṃ proktaṃ siddhaṃ siddhānumānitam iti // 257 // bindughṛtam āśvinaṃ ślo 2 {X} ājaṃ payaḥ śṛṃgaveraṃ vacā śigrur harītakī /  
8 pippalyo maricaṃ pāṭhā saindhavaṃ daśamaṃ ghṛtam\* // 258 // śṛṃgaverādayo bhāgā lavaṇāntāḥ palīnakāḥ / caturguṇena payasā ghṛtaprasthaṃ vipācayet\* // 259 // asyopayogād vinyeta smṛtiṃ medhāṃ ca  
9 mānavaḥ / jaḍagadgadamūkatvaṃ pānād evāsya śāmyatīti // 260 // {X} sarāsvataṃ ghṛtaṃ ślo 3 dvitīyo 'dhyāyaḥ {X} balātailaṃ pravakṣyāmi vātaroganibarhaṇam\* / ātreyānumataṃ siddhāṃ bandhyānāṃ garbhadaṃ śubham\* // 261 //

> just as the thunderbolt \[was created\] by the Self-born to destroy all demons.  
> This Bindughṛta is proclaimed, perfected and honoured by the perfected ones. Thus. // 257 // The Aśvins' Bindughṛta. Two verses. Goat's milk, ginger, sweet flag, horse-radish tree, chebulic myrobalan,  
> long pepper, black pepper, pāṭhā, and rock salt the tenth, \[and\] ghee. // 258  
> The ingredients beginning with ginger and ending with salt are one pala each.  
> With four times as much milk, one should cook a prastha measure of ghee. // 259  
> From its use a man obtains memory and intellect;  
> dullness, stammering, and muteness subside merely from drinking it. Thus. // 260 // Sārasvata-ghṛta. Three verses. Chapter Two. I shall proclaim Balātaila, destroyer of diseases of the wind humour,  
> approved by Ātreya, perfected, auspicious, granting pregnancy to barren women: // 261  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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