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Fol. 12: Bower manuscript r1 bhūtopahatacittāś ca saṃsṛṣṭopahhatena ca // 360 // viṣamajvare raktagulme vidradhīgṛdhrasīṣu ca / plihodare vātagulme tathā x x ^ \_ ^ \_ // 361 // vyāpannayonayo yāś ca x x x x ^ \_ striyaḥ / 2 yāś ca garbhaṃ na gṛhṇanti phalakāla upasthite // 362 // sthitasūtī tathā bandhyā yonīduṣṭāś ca yoṣitaḥ / vyaktaṃ bandhyā labhed garbham ṛtusnātā na saṃśayaḥ // 363 // ṛtukāleṣu nārīṇāṃ sadyaḥ snātāsu 3 dāpayet\* / balavarṇakaraṃ hy etan medhājananam uttamam\* // 364 // smṛtisaṃjananaṃ caitad bṛṃhaṇīyaṃ mahāguṇam\* / hantāraṃ sarvarogāṇāṃ bālānāṃ ca vivardhanam\* // 365 // catur vidhaṃ prayoktavyaṃ 4 bhaiṣajyam amṛtopamam iti // {X} aśvagandhātailaṃ ślo 15 pā 1 {X} atha tailaṃ pravakṣyāmi śvadaṃṣṭrāvātanirjayam\* // 366 // vidhivad yena kalpena narāṇāṃ tac chṛṇuṣva me / nabhaś caiva 5 nabhasyaś ca dvau māsāv ṛtu sattamau // 367 // yatra dravyāṇi jāyante vividhāni mahītale / abhivṛddhāni vṛṣṭāni parjanye kālavarṣiṇi // 368 // medinyāṃ jātasasyāyām auṣadhāni tata uddharet\* / 6 apuṣpaphalavatkāle arogaṃ kṣetrajaṃ śubham\* // 369 // tat samuddhṛtya kalyāṇe muhūrte divase śubhe / caukṣe caukṣaṃ samādāya kṣodayitvā ulūkhale // 370 // tato rasaṃ paṭe srāvya 7 pramāṇenāḍhakaṃ mitam\* / tailaprasthaś ca dātavyaḥ kṣīraṃ dadyāc caturguṇam\* // 371 // guḍasya ca palāny aṣṭau śṛṃgaverapalāni ṣaṭ / tat siddhaṃ sthāpayet pātre śucau sunirmale // 372 // 8 tasya mātrāṃ pibet kāle kṣīraṃ ca x ^ \_ ^ \_ / x x x x guḍaṃ khādec chṛṃgaverasamanvitam\* // 373 // jīrṇasnehaś ca bhuñjīta ṣaṣṭikaṃ payasodanam\* / yāṃs tu praśamayed rogāṃs tān me nigadataḥ 9 śṛṇu // 374 // udīrṇaṃ x ^ \_ \_ x x x x x ^ \_ ^ \_m\* / etad vātaprasaktānāṃ tailaṃ paramapūjitam\* // 375 // ajitaṃ nāma martyānām ārogyabalavardhanam\* / etat sarvagataṃ vāyuṃ 10 x x x x ^ \_ ^ \_ // 376 // x x x x ^ \_ ś cāpi caramāṇāṃ samuddharet\* / vepanaṃ kaṃpanaṃ caiva gṛdhrasīnāṃ tathaiva ca // 377 // bhagandare 11 kuṣṭhagulme apasmāriṇam eva ca / etad yonīvikārāṇāṃ yuvatīnāṃ tathaiva ca // 378 // v1 x x x x ^ \_ \_ x x x x x ^ \_ surān iti // 379a // {X} śvadaṃṣṭrātailaṃ ślo 12 {X} āmalakarasadviguṇaṃ tailaṃ kuḍavonmitaṃ vipaktavyam\* / bhāgān karṣasamān\* 2 x x x x x x x x x x x // 380 // madhukaṃ prapuṇḍarīkaṃ navāni nīlotpalāni pippalyaḥ / candanam iti tat tailaṃ sadāṃgulibhyāṃ nastato 3 dadyāt\* // 381 // x x x x x x x x x x rogaṃ śīrṣasaṃbhavaṃ hanti / vṛddham api kālaśirasaṃ kurute saṃvatsarād ūrdhvam\* // 382 // {X} nastaḥkarmatailaṃ śirṣāmayaharam\* {X} jīvantīṃ madhukaṃ 4 medāṃ pippalīṃ madanaṃ vacām\* / ṛddhiṃ rāsnāṃ balāṃ bilvaṃ śatapuṣpāṃ śatāvarīm\* // 383 // piṣṭvā kṣīre jale sarpistailaṃ ca vipacet saha / anuvāsanikaṃ sneham etad vidyāj jvarāpaham\* // 384 // śuddhimārge 5 hṛte doṣe viprasanneṣu dhātuṣu / gatāṅgaśūlo laghvaṅgaḥ sadyo bhavati vijvara iti // 385 // {X} jvaraharam anuvāsanaṃ nāma tailaṃ ślo 3 {X} pippalyo madhukaṃ bilvaṃ śatāhvā madanaṃ 6 vacām\* / kuṣṭaṃ ṣaḍīṃ puṣkarāhvāṃ citrakaṃ devadāru ca // 386 // piṣṭvā tailaṃ vipaktavyaṃ payasā dviguṇena tu / arśasāṃ mūḍhavātānāṃ tac chreṣṭham anuvāsanam\* // 387 // gudaniḥsaraṇaṃ śūlaṃ 7 mūtrakṛcchraṃ pravāhikām\* / kaṭyūrūpṛṣṭhidaurbalyam ānāhaṃ vaṃkṣaṇāśrayam\* // 388 // picchāsrāvaṃ gude śothaṃ vātavarcovinigraham\* / utthānaṃ bahuśo yac ca jayet tac cānuvāsanam\* // 389 // 8 {X} anuvāsanaṃ tailaṃ ślo 4 {X} paṃca prasthā mūlakarasasya dadhnaś ca kārayec caturaḥ / śuktasya trayaḥ kuḍavās tailasya tathā trayaś ca syuḥ // 390 // catvāri saindhavapalāny aṣṭa 9 punaś cārdraśṛṃgaverasya / ārdrālābhe śuṣkhaṃ kartavyaṃ ṣoḍaśapalaṃ syāt\* // 391 // gṛdhrasīm etac chamayed ūruṣkambhaṃ ca khallivātāṃś ca / sarvāṃś ca kaṭīrogān pānāttān vātarogāṃś ceti // 392 // {X} 10 vātaharaṃ nāma tailaṃ ślo 3 {X} madhukaṃ prapauṇḍarīkaṃ bṛhati saindhavam āḍhakīprasūtam\* / bilvasya śalāṭūni hareṇuṃ haridre pippalyo daśamaṃ ca deyam\* // 393 // etair akṣasamaiḥ 11 .ī // > II. Fol. 12: Bower manuscript > \[For those whose minds\] are struck down by malevolent spirits, and afflicted by concurrent \[humours\]; // 360 > in irregular fever, blood-gulma, abscesses, and sciatica; in splenic enlargement, in wind-gulma, and likewise \[…\]; // 361 > and women whose wombs are impaired, \[…\] women > who do not conceive a child when the fertile time arrives; // 362 > one whose labor is arrested, likewise a barren woman, and women whose vaginas are afflicted—plainly the barren woman will conceive a child having bathed after her period, there is no doubt. // 363 > At the fertile seasons of women, when they have just bathed, he should administer \[it\]. For this produces strength and complexion, and is supreme at generating intelligence; // 364 > and it generates memory, is nourishing, and of great virtue; a destroyer of all diseases and a promoter of growth in children. // 365 > This medicament, resembling ambrosia, should be applied in four ways. // Aśvagandhā-oil, 15 verses, 1 quarter. // Now I shall declare the oil called Śvadaṃṣṭrā-vātanirjaya; // 366 > hear from me according to which procedure and recipe \[it is prepared\] for men. Nabhas and Nabhasya are two months, the best of seasons, // 367 > when diverse herbs grow upon the surface of the earth, thriving and rained upon when the rain-cloud showers in season. // 368 > When the earth has borne her crops, one should then harvest the medicinal herbs: when devoid of flowers and fruits, free from disease, born in a good field, auspicious. // 369 > Having gathered it at an auspicious hour on a good day, taking pure \[substance\] in a pure \[state\], having crushed it in a mortar, // 370 > one should then strain the juice through a cloth to the measured amount of an āḍhaka measure; and a prastha measure of sesame oil should be added, and one should add four times as much milk; // 371 > and eight pala measures of jaggery, and six pala measures of ginger. When cooked, he should place it in a clean, very pure vessel. // 372 > He should drink a dose of it at the proper time, and milk \[…\]; \[…\] he should eat jaggery mixed with ginger. // 373 > And when the unctuous substance has been digested, he should eat ṣaṣṭika-rice with boiled milk. Now hear from me as I declare those diseases which it will pacify: // 374 > excited \[…\] \[…\]. This oil is highly praised for those afflicted with the wind humour; // 375 > named 'Ajita' (the Unconquered), it increases health and strength for mortals. This \[…\] the wind humour pervading the whole body // 376 > and \[…\] of those who move about, he should relieve; tremblings and tremors, and likewise sciatica; // 377 > in fistula-in-ano, kuṣṭha, gulma, and in epilepsy; and likewise this \[is beneficial\] for the vaginal disorders of young women; // 378 > \[…\] gods. // 379a // Śvadaṃṣṭrā-oil, 12 verses. // Cook a kuḍava measure of sesame oil with twice as much juice of emblic myrobalans, \[and with\] equal karṣa parts of \[…\] // 380 > liquorice, prapuṇḍarīka, fresh blue water lilies, long pepper, and sandalwood: that oil he should always administer into the nose with his two fingers. // 381 > \[…\] cures disease arising in the head; it makes even an old man's head black \[haired\] after one year. // 382 // Nasal oil that cures diseases of the head. // Jīvantī, liquorice, medā, long pepper, madana, sweet flag, // 383 > ṛddhi, rāsnā, balā, bael, dill, and śatāvarī—having ground \[these\], cook clarified butter and sesame oil together in milk and water. One should know this unctuous enema as a dispeller of fever. // 384 > When the path is cleansed, the humour removed, and the bodily tissues purified, with bodily pain gone and limbs light, he immediately becomes fever-free. // 385 // Fever-dispelling unctuous enema oil, 3 verses. // Long pepper, liquorice, bael, dill, madana, sweet flag, // 386 > kuṣṭha, ṣaḍī, puṣkarāhvā, plumbago, and deodar—having ground \[these\], sesame oil should be cooked with twice as much milk. That is the best unctuous enema for piles and baffled wind humour; // 387 > prolapse of the rectum, colic, dysuria, dysentery, weakness of the loins, thighs, and back, constipation localized in the groin, // 388 > mucous discharge, swelling in the rectum, retention of flatus and feces, and frequent urge \[to stool\]: that unctuous enema cures \[these\]. // 389 > Unctuous enema oil, 4 verses. // One should prepare five prastha measures of radish juice and four of curd; there should be three kuḍava measures of fermented gruel and likewise three of sesame oil; // 390 > four pala measures of rock salt and eight of fresh ginger; if fresh is unavailable, dry should be used, \[which\] should be sixteen pala measures. // 391 > This pacifies sciatica, stiffness of the thighs, and khallī-cramps of the wind humour, and all loin diseases; and those wind disorders \[are conquered\] by drinking it. // 392 > Vāta-dispelling oil, 3 verses. // Liquorice, prapauṇḍarīka, bṛhatī, rock salt, sprouted pigeon pea, unripened fruits of bael, hareṇu, the two curcumas, and long pepper should be given as the tenth. // 393 // With these in measures equal to an akṣa \[…\] > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.13) - [Next: 15.407](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.15.407) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.14) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangahrdaya.3989) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit - [Carakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.3.244) — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.14) · Pramāṇa