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# The Bower Manuscript 12.p6

Bower Manuscript 12.p6

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [12.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.12.p6)

9 rāsnā balāśvagandhāṃ madhukaṃ samahauṣadhaṃ sasuradārum\* / syonākasaptamānāṃ bhāgān pratyekaśo dadyāt\* // 320 // etat tad amṛtakalpaṃ gavāṃ purīṣāgninā śanaiḥ sādhyam\* / apahṛtya  
10 sannidheyaṃ yathānukūlaṃ tathā sevyam\* // 321 // etad bhojyaṃ prāhur nastaḥ kāryaṃ ca vastiṣu ca deyam\* / doṣodareṣu deyaṃ śākhāvāteṣu cābhyaṃgam\* // 322 // gṛdhrasyavātagulme  
11 yonīdoṣe 'py adhogate vāte / etac chūle pathyaṃ plihe 'pi caitad vidhaivoktam\* // 323 // rasāyanaṃ vāḍvalinā praṇītaṃ nāmnā tv idaṃ mūlakatailam āhuḥ / puṃsāñ ca duṣṭendriyapīḍitānām\*

> He should take equal portions of rāsnā, balā, aśvagandhā, licorice, ginger, and deodar, / with syonāka as the seventh. // 320  
> This recipe, like nectar itself, should be cooked slowly over a fire of cow dung. / Taken off \[the fire\], it should be preserved and used as appropriate. // 321  
> They say this may be taken with food, administered as an errhine, and given in enemas; / it should be given in abdominal enlargements due to the humours, and as an ointment in rheumatic disorders of the limbs. // 322  
> In sciatica, phantom tumor due to the wind humour, disorders of the female genital tract, and downwards-directed wind humour, / this is suitable in colic, and is likewise prescribed in enlargement of the spleen. // 323  
> This rejuvenator, composed by Vāḍvali, is called Radish-oil; / and for men troubled by impaired virility,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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