The Bower Manuscript 21.1

21.1

II. Fol. 19: Bower manuscript
r1 x x x x ^ śādvalaiḥ / vīrāmadhukamaṃjiṣṭhāvetasotpalakesaraiḥ // 610 // jīvanīyapalāśa x x x x x x^ _ kaiḥ / ghṛtāmbukṣīrapiṣṭais tair lepaḥ sekaś ca śasyate // 611 // trivṛtāṃ triphalāṃ nimbaṃ x x
2 pīlumahauṣadham* / śritaḥ kaṣāyaḥ saguḍo visarpajvaranāśanaḥ // 612 // mahātiktaṃ pibet sarpiś cūrṇaṃ yac cāpi tiktakam* / etair eva ghṛtaṃ siddhaṃ viṣamajvaranāśanam* // 613 // visarpacikitsitaṃ ślo 5 pā 1 ṛ
3 kaṣāyaṃ kāmalāpāṇḍupūrvādyaṃ jvaritaḥ pibet* / haridrāṃ vā sagomūtrāṃ tayor vā dāḍimatvacam* // 614 // pippalīdrākṣayoḥ prasthau droṇe dhātrīrasaṃ pacet* / sitāśatārdhaṃ madhukaṃ śuṇṭhītvakkṣīrakaṭphalaṃ // 615 //
4 śītān madhuprasthayutān tataś cārdhapalaṃ pibet* // kāmalī pāṇḍurogī ca pippalīṃ vā prayojayet* // 616 // mustādyaṃ kṣīravastiṃ vā yavānnaṃ jāṃgalaṃ madhu / ayorajīyaṃ sevec ca yā ca pittajvare
5 kriyeti // 617 // {X} nāvanītake miśrako 'dhyāyaś caturthaḥ {X} ataḥparaṃ pravakṣyāmi balavarṇaprasādanam* / yena māṃsāni vardhante balaṃ caivopajāyate // 618 // mūlānām aśvagandhāyāḥ paṃcaviṃśat
6 palāni tu / kaṇḍaśaś chedayitvā tu sthālyām ādhāya sādhayet* // 619 // pādabhāgāvaśiṣṭhaṃ ca jñātvā tam avatārayet* / tad rasaṃ tu parisrāvya dṛḍhapātre 'vasecayet* // 620 // tasmin kaṣāye matimān
7 auṣadhāni prakalpayet* / jīvaniyāni sarvāṇi śarkarācūrṇam eva ca // 621 // madhusarpiṣaś ca prasṛtaṃ pippalīcūrṇam eva ca / kiṃcil lavaṇikaṃ kṛtvā khajenāloḍayed

[…] with greens; with vīrā, liquorice, madder, vetasa, and lotus stamens // 610
With jīvanīya [drugs], palāśa, […], ground with ghee, water, and milk, an application or sprinkling is commended // 611
Trivṛt, the three myrobalans, neem, […] / pīlu, and dried ginger: this decoction boiled down, taken with jaggery, destroys erysipelas and fever // 612
One should drink Mahātikta clarified butter, and also the Tiktaka powder; ghee prepared with these very [drugs] cures irregular fever // 613
Treatment of erysipelas: five ślokas, one quarter-verse.
One afflicted with fever should drink the decoction starting with kāmalā-pāṇḍu-[…]; or turmeric with cow's urine, or pomegranate rind in either case // 614
One should boil a prastha measure each of long pepper and grapes with a droṇa of emblic myrobalan juice; [add] fifty [palas] of sugar, liquorice, dry ginger, bark, kṣīrī, and kaṭphala // 615
When cooled, combined with a prastha measure of honey, one should drink half a pala measure thereof. One with jaundice or anemia may also employ long pepper // 616
Or a milk enema beginning with mustā, a diet of barley and game meat, honey, iron dust [compounds], and whatever procedure is [prescribed] for bile-fever should be observed // 617
In the Nāvanītaka, the fourth chapter, on miscellaneous recipes. / Hereafter I shall declare [a remedy] promoting strength and complexion, by which the flesh increases and strength is generated // 618
Twenty-five pala measures of the roots of aśvagandhā, having cut them into small pieces and placed them in a pot, one should boil // 619
Knowing that one-fourth part remains, one should take it down; and having strained that liquid, one should pour it into a sturdy vessel // 620
In that decoction, the intelligent [physician] should mix the medicinal herbs: all the jīvanīya drugs and powdered sugar // 621
A prasṛta measure each of honey and clarified butter, powdered long pepper, and having made it slightly salted, the physician should stir it with a churning-stick // 622