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Fol. 11: Bower manuscript r1 strīṇāṃ ca deyaṃ prasavārthinīnām iti // 324 // {X} mūlakatailaṃ ślo 6 {X} mūlakarasasya prasthaḥ kṣīraprasthaś ca tad bhavet sādhyam\* / jātaṃ tad dadhi yojyaṃ syād atha prasthena tailasya // 325 // yaṣṭīmadhukaṃ 2 rāsnāṃ pāṭhā ca guḍaṃ ca śṛṃgaveraṃ ca / etāñ jalena piṣṭvā pramāṇam ekaikam ardhapalam\* // 326 // lavaṇasya ca karṣaḥ syāt tad vipaced agninā śanair mṛdunā / etat tailaṃ siddhaṃ pibeta 3 prāgbhojanaṃ dvipalam\* // 327 // bhojanavidhiś ca kāryaḥ rūkṣaḥ sūpodano bhaved atra / bheṣajam etad vihitaṃ bandhyānāṃ putrajananārtham\* // 328 // {X} mūlakatailaṃ ślo 4 {X} samūlapatraśākhasya 4 śataṃ sahacarasya tu / caturṣu jaladroṇeṣu sādhayet sūkṣmakuṭṭitam\* // 329 // droṇāvaśeṣe pūte tu pacet tailāḍhakaṃ śanaiḥ / sahacarasya ca mūlānāṃ peṣyaṃ daśapalaṃ bhavet\* // 330 // 5 parisrāvya sukhoṣṇe tu śarkarāṃ tatra dāpayet\* / palāni daśa cāṣṭau ca nirmathya ca nidhāpayet\* // 331 // vastau pāne tathābhyaṃge nāsye caiva praśasyate / ekāṃgikaṃ pakṣabadhaṃ hanugrahaśirograhe // 332 // 6 arditaṃ vepathūnmādaṃ sarvagātragrahaṃ jvaram\* / gṛdhrasīṃ vātagulmaṃ ca bhūtopahatacetasam\* // 333 // apasmāraṃ dhanuṣkambhaṃ ūrūṣkambham alāsakam\* / gaṇḍakuṇḍalavardhmānaṃ 7 hastajānuvikuṃcanam\* // 334 // sraṃsanaṃ sandhiparvāṇāṃ kaṃpanaṃ śoṣaṇaṃ tathā / tailam etat praśamayec chitvābhrāṇīva mārutaḥ // 335 // alābhe śarkarāyās tu 8 kṣīreṇa saha pācayet\* / rogānīkabadhārthāya sthāpitaṃ tat svayaṃbhuvā // 336 // {X} sahacaratailaṃ {X} nistuṣāṇāṃ tilānāṃ tu tailaprasthaṃ vipācayet\* / palaṃ ca madhukasyātra 9 dadyāt kṣīraṃ caturguṇam\* // 337 // mṛdupākaṃ ca tat siddhaṃ bhūyasāpi vipācayet\* / anena vidhinā samyaṅ madhukasya śataṃ pacet\* // 338 // śatakṛtvo vipaktavyaṃ śatapākaṃ nidhāpayet\* / pānābhyaṃjanayoś caiva 10 vastau nāsye ca śasyate // 339 // bhojane cāmṛtaprakhyaṃ narāṇāṃ rājayakṣmiṇām\* / hṛdrogaṃ tāluśoṣaṃ ca pittagulmaṃ pratānakam\* // 340 // tṛṣām unmādavaisarpaṃ śvāsakāsam asadrājaḥ / 11 x x x x ṃ pravṛddhaṃ ca sarvatobhāgam ūrdhvagam\* // 341 // kāmalājvarapāṇḍutvam etat pānān nigṛhṇati / pittapākam atho dāhaṃ visphoṭakavicarcikām\* // 342 // v1 x x x x ^ brāhmāṇāṃ ye rogāś ca pṛthagvidhāḥ / tailenānena śāmyante rajāṃśīva jalāgame // 343 // madhuyaṣṭikaṃ nāma tailam\* {O} hayagandhāmūlānāṃ palaśatam unmīya bhāṇḍa x x x / 2 x x ṣu caturṣu sādhyaṃ jalapādāvaśeṣite pūtam\* // 344 // madhukaṃ śṛṃgaveraṇ ca suradāruṃ śatāvarīm\* / maṃjiṣṭhānaladaṃ kuṣṭhaṃ dve karaṃje savarṣabhūḥ // 345 // amṛṇālaṃ śatāpuṣpāṃ surasaṃ rāsnāṃ payasyāṃ 3 ca / ṣaḍīṃ puṣkaramūlaṃ ca sthirāṃ dravantīṃ payasyāñ ca // 346 // karṣonmitaiḥ supiṣṭair ebhiḥ sarvaiḥ kaṣāyam āloḍya / tailāḍhakaṃ sukhāgnau vipacet kṣīraṇ caturguṇaṃ datvā // 347 // tat siddhaṃ mṛdupākaṃ bhāṇḍe 4 śucau nidhātavyam\* / pāne 'bhyaṃge vastāv upayojyaṃ bhāvanavidhau ca // 348 // jaḍamūkakhaṃjagadgada-ūrūṣkambhārditāḥ smṛtiviyuktāḥ / pakṣakṣatāvabhagnaś cyutaniṣpiṣṭāsthisandhayaḥ skhalanāḥ // 349 // 5 kṣīṇakṣatāś ca śukrā īrṣyāṣaṇḍhā hanugrahagṛhītāḥ // 350a // {O} aśvagandhātailaṃ {X} mūlānām aśvagandhāyās tulārdhaṃ kaṇḍaśaḥ kṛtam\* / jaladroṇe vipaktavyam aṣṭabhāgāvaśeṣitam\* // 351 // 6 tailāḍhakaṃ samāvāpya kṣīraṃ dadyāc caturguṇam\* / kaṭāhe tad vipaktavyaṃ kalkāṃś cemān pradāpayet\* // 352 // elāñ ca śatapuṣpāṃ ca kuṣṭhaṃ vyāghranakhaṃ tvacam\* / 7 madhukaṃ śṛṃgaveraṃ ca devadāruṃ balāṃ sthirām\* // 353 // rāsnāṃ puṣkaramūlaṃ ca bhūtikyaṃ sapunarnavām\* / maṃjiṣṭhāṃ naladaṃ patraṃ dravantīṃ surasaṃ vacām\* // 354 // śvadaṃṣṭrāñ ca 8 mṛṇālaṃ ca payasyāṃ bahuputrikām\* / eṣām akṣasamān bhāgān datvā garbhaṃ vipācayet\* // 355 // tat siddham avibhaktaṃ ca tadainam avatārayet\* / pāne vastāv athābhyaṃge nastaḥkarmaṇi 9 bhojane // 356 // yeṣu vyādhiṣu dātavyaṃ tān me nigadataḥ śṛṇu / narāṇāṃ khaṃjamūkānām ūrūṣkambhārditeṣu ca // 357 // pakṣahīnāvabhagneṣu cyutabhagnāsthisandhiṣu / etat syād vātabhagneṣu 10 praṇaṣṭeṣu ca dhātuṣu // 358 // hanugrahe khaḍe mehe kṣiptā ye cāpi vāyunā / vātabhagneṣu dīneṣu tathā kṣīṇendriyeṣu ca // 359 // naṣṭaśukrāś ca ye puṃsām īrṣyāśaṇḍhāś ca ye narāḥ / > and to women who desire offspring. // 324 // Radish sesame oil: six verses. > One prastha of radish juice and one prastha of milk should be cooked; when it has turned to curd, it should be combined with a prastha of sesame oil. // 325 > Liquorice, rāsnā, pāṭhā, jaggery, and ginger— > having ground these with water, each in the measure of half a pala, // 326 > and there should be a karṣa of salt; one should cook it slowly over a gentle fire. When this sesame oil is prepared, one should drink two palas before a meal. // 327 > And the meal regimen should be followed: here it should be unctuous-free boiled rice with pulse broth. This medicine is prescribed for barren women to bring about the birth of a son. // 328 // Radish sesame oil: four verses. > One hundred \[palas\] of sahacara with roots, leaves, and branches > one should cook, finely crushed, in four droṇas of water. // 329 > When one droṇa remains and it is strained, one should slowly cook an āḍhaka of sesame oil; and there should be a paste of ten palas of sahacara roots. // 330 > Having strained it when it is pleasantly warm, one should add sugar to it: > eighteen palas; and having stirred it thoroughly, one should set it aside. // 331 > It is praised in enemas, in drinking, likewise in massage, and in nasal therapy: for monoplegia, hemiplegia, lockjaw, headache, // 332 > facial paralysis, tremor, insanity, generalized stiffness of the limbs, fever, sciatica, internal abdominal swelling caused by wind humour, and for one whose mind is afflicted by spirits, // 333 > epilepsy, tetanus, stiffness of the thighs, acute indigestion, goitre, glandular swellings, hydrocele, contraction of the hands and knees, // 334 > loosening of the joints and articulations, trembling, and also emaciation. > This sesame oil will pacify \[them\], just as the wind disperses clouds. // 335 > If sugar is unavailable, one should cook it with milk. It was instituted by the Self-born one to destroy the host of diseases. // 336 // Sahacara sesame oil. > One should cook a prastha of sesame oil made from husked sesame seeds; and here one should give a pala of liquorice and four times as much milk. // 337 > When it has been cooked to a mild degree of cooking, one should cook it again; in this manner, one should cook a hundred \[palas\] of liquorice thoroughly. // 338 > It is to be cooked a hundred times; one should store the hundredfold-cooked oil. > It is praised for drinking and massage, and in enemas and nasal medication; // 339 > and in food it is like nectar for men suffering from consumption, heart disease, dryness of the palate, abdominal swelling caused by bile humour, chronic prostration, // 340 > thirst, mania, erysipelas, dyspnoea, cough, abnormal menstrual flow, > \[…\] aggravated and spreading in all directions, moving upward. // 341 > It suppresses jaundice, fever, and anaemia through drinking; likewise bile-induced inflammation, burning sensation, eruptions, and eczema. // 342 > \[…\] and whatever various diseases there are of the Brahmins, > they are calmed by this sesame oil, just as dust is at the arrival of rain. // 343 // Sesame oil called Liquorice. > Having weighed out one hundred palas of roots of hayagandhā, in a vessel \[…\] > should be cooked in four \[droṇas of water\]; when a fourth of the water remains, it should be strained. // 344 > Liquorice, ginger, deodar cedar, asparagus, Indian madder, nalada, costus, the two varieties of karañja, along with varṣabhū, // 345 > lotus root, dill, holy basil, rāsnā, payasyā, > ṣaḍī, pushkarmool, sthirā, dravantī, and payasyā, // 346 > stirring the decoction with all these, well ground, in the measure of a karṣa each, > having added four times as much milk, one should cook an āḍhaka of sesame oil over a gentle fire. // 347 > When prepared to a mild degree of cooking, it should be placed in a clean vessel. It is to be employed in drinking, massage, enemas, and in the method of saturation. // 348 > Those who are dull, mute, lame, stammering, suffering from thigh stiffness or facial paralysis, devoid of memory, injured on one side, crippled, with dislocated or crushed joints and bones, stumbling, // 349 > those whose semen is depleted or harmed, those rendered impotent by jealousy, and those seized with lockjaw. // 350a // Aśvagandhā sesame oil. > Half a tulā of roots of aśvagandhā, broken into pieces, > should be cooked in a droṇa of water until reduced to an eighth part. // 351 > Having added an āḍhaka of sesame oil, one should give four times as much milk; it should be cooked in a cauldron, and one should add these pastes: // 352 > cardamom, dill, costus, tiger's claw, cinnamon bark, > liquorice, ginger, deodar cedar, balā, sthirā, // 353 > rāsnā, pushkarmool, bhūtikya, along with punarnavā, > Indian madder, nalada, patra, dravantī, holy basil, sweet flag, // 354 > gokshura, lotus root, payasyā, and bahuputrikā. > Having added these in equal parts of an akṣa measure as the paste, one should cook it. // 355 > When it is ready and not separated, one should then take it down \[from the fire\]. > In drinking, enemas, massage, nasal treatment, and food, // 356 > in whatever diseases it is to be given, listen to them as I declare them: > for men who are lame, mute, and in cases of thigh stiffness and facial paralysis, // 357 > those deprived of a side, crippled, with dislocated and fractured bones and joints; this is for those broken by wind humour and whose bodily elements are destroyed; // 358 > in lockjaw, in crippling, in urinary disorders, and those stricken by wind humour; > for those broken by wind humour, the dejected, and likewise those whose senses are impaired; // 359 > and men whose semen is lost, and those men who are impotent through jealousy— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 12.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.12.p6) - [Next: 14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.14) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.13) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [Bheḷasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.4.82) — Bheḷa, Sanskrit - [Gadanigraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.gadanigraha.4.104) — Soḍhala, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.13) · Pramāṇa