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Fol. 22: Bower manuscript r1 mantrya triguṇaḥ parihāraḥ caturguṇaṃ brahmacaryam ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ {X} // 715 // pippalīvardhamānasya guṇāḥ karma ca ke balaṃ / pravakṣyāmy anupūrveṇa 2 prajānāṃ hitakāmyayā // 716 // na hy etad amṛtaṃ pītvā paścāt tapyanti mānavāḥ / darśayaty eva siddhiṃ hi pāṇāv āmalakaṃ yathā // 717 // 3 tasmāl lakṣīñ ca puṣṭiṃ ca prajāṃ medhāṃ ca kāṃkṣatā / rasāyanam idaṃ somyaṃ kāryam āyur vivardhanam\* // 718 // jīvanīyāni pītvā tu snigdho 4 vāntaviriktavān\* / kṛtasaṃsarjanaḥ kāle puṇyāhenārabhet tataḥ // 719 // punarvasv atha puṣyeṇa śravaṇena śraviṣṭhayā / triṣūttareṣu 5 hastena some yogam upāgate // 720 // upoṣitaḥ śiraḥsnātaḥ śuklavāsā jitendriyaḥ / abhyarcya devatān viprāṃś caikāṃ khādeta pippalīm\* // 721 // 6 tataś cānupibet kṣīraṃ gavyaṃ chāgam athāpi vā / jīrṇe tasmiṃs tu bhuṃjīta śālīnāṃ payasodanam\* // 722 // evam etan naraḥ khāded vardhamānaṃ 7 sadāhani / śataṃ pūrṇaṃ bhaved yāvad avakarṣaḥ tathaiva ca // 723 // tato 'nte 'py avakarṣasya saptarātraṃ payodanam\* / prāyaśaś cānubhoktavyaṃ tathā mudgarasodanam\* // 724 // 8 saptarātre tṛtīye tu jāṃgalo madhuro rasaḥ / bhojyaṃ peyaṃ ca pānīyaṃ śritaśītaṃ guṇānvitam\* // 725 // gṛhe nivāte cāsīta satataṃ hitasevi ca / tataḥ krameṇāmalakam 9 amblārtham upakalpayet\* // 726 // vṛkṣāmblaṃ dāḍimāmblaṃ ca sadā snānaṃ ca śīlayet\* / anena vidhinā kṣipraṃ puṣṭiṃ labhati mānavaḥ // 727 // pramadā labhate garbhaṃ vandhyā cāpi 10 prajāyate / śāmyanty anena śvitrāṇi rājayakṣmā halīmakaḥ // 728 // apasmāras tathonmādo jvaraś ca viṣam āgataḥ / anekaśaḥ prayukte tu balīpalitanāśanam\* // 729 // r1 vaṛṇatejobalādhānim agneś cottamajīvanam / kuṣṭharoganihantāram ārogyajananaṃ śivam\* // 730 // śukrabalapranaṣṭasya indriyānāṃ praśādanam / 2 pippalyo hi śivaḥ kāye kaṭukā madhurānvayāḥ // 731 // snigdhāś ca śītavīryāś ca vyavāpinyo guṇānvitāḥ / kaṭukatvāt kaphe pathyāḥ snehāc ca pavane hitāḥ // 732 // 3 śaityāt pittapraśamanā yujyante sarvakarmasu / tribhyaḥ pravartate cādyaḥ kalpaḥ paṃcabhir eva ca // 733 // aṣṭako daśakaś cānyo balakālam avekṣya ca / kṣīrānupānās 4 tāḥ kāryās tathā kṣīropasevanāḥ // 734 // niyamaś ca yathādṛṣṭam āśiṣaś ca yathāśrutāḥ / tasmān niyamam ālaṃbya puruṣeṇa yathākramam\* // 735 // prayojyam idam ārogyaśrībalāyurvivardhanam\* / 5 pippalīvardhamānasya kalpo 'śvibhyāṃ prakalpitaḥ // 736 // anusūyunā prayoktavyo yathā siddhim avāpnuyāt\* ṛ 6 samūlāñ ca sapatrāñ ca sapuṣpāṃ saphalāṃ tathā // 737 // kākamācīṃ tu pratyagrāṃ saṃharen matimān naraḥ / tulāpādaṃ susūkṣmaṃ tu jaladroṇe 7 vipācayet\* // 738 // caturbhāgasthite tatra tailaprasthaṃ vipācayet / caturguṇena payasā kalkāṃś cemān vidhānavit\* // 739 // 8 prapauṇḍarīkaṃ madhukaṃ rāsnāmūlaṃ śatāvarīm\* / viḍaṃgā śatapuṣpāṃ ca svayaṃguptāphalāni ca // 740 // etad abhyaṃjane 9 pāne nastaḥkarmānuvāsane / aśītiṃ vātajān rogāṃs tailam etad vyapohati // 741 // maṇḍūkaparṇyāḥ svarasaḥ prayojyaḥ 10 kṣīreṇa yaṣṭīmadhukasya cūrṇam\* / rasaṃ guḍūcyās tu samūlapuṣyā āyuṣpradāny āmayanāśanāni // 742 // 11 balāgnivarṇasmṛtivardhanāni medhyāni cemāni rasāyanāni / kalkaḥ prayojyaḥ khalu śaṃkhapuṣpyāḥ > II. Fol. 22: Bower manuscript > … reciting mantras, threefold avoidance \[of improper conduct\], and fourfold celibacy—thus spoke the venerable Ātreya. // 715 > I shall explain in proper order the qualities, action, and strengths > of the increasing-dose regimen of long pepper, desiring the welfare of people: // 716 > For humans do not suffer afterward when they drink this nectar; > indeed, it displays success just like an emblic myrobalan \[held\] in the hand. // 717 > Therefore, one desiring prosperity, nourishment, offspring, and intellect > should perform this gentle rasāyana which increases lifespan. // 718 > Having drunk life-promoting \[decoctions\], unctuous, > after vomiting and purging, and having performed the dietary regimen, he should begin on an auspicious day: // 719 > When the Moon comes into conjunction with Punarvasu, or Puṣya, Śravaṇa, or Śraviṣṭhā, > with the three Uttaras, or with Hasta; // 720 > having fasted, bathed his head, wearing white garments, with his senses controlled, > having worshiped the deities and Brahmins, he should eat one long pepper. // 721 > And after that he should drink cow's milk, or goat's milk; > and when that has digested, he should eat boiled rice of śāli grain with milk. // 722 > In this manner a man should eat it increasing every single day, > until it reaches a full hundred; and just so is the decreasing \[regimen\]. // 723 > Then, even at the end of the decreasing \[regimen\], boiled rice with milk > is usually to be enjoyed for seven days, and likewise boiled rice with mudga soup. // 724 > And in the third seven-day period, sweet meat-soup of wild animals \[should be consumed\]; > his food and drink should be water that has been boiled, cooled, and endowed with \[wholesome\] qualities. // 725 > He should dwell in a house sheltered from wind, constantly resorting to wholesome habits; > then, gradually, he should employ emblic myrobalan for sour flavor, // 726 > as well as Garcinia and pomegranate for sourness, and he should always practice bathing. > By this procedure a man quickly attains nourishment; // 727 > a woman attains pregnancy, and even a barren woman bears offspring; > by this, leukoderma, consumption, and halīmaka are alleviated; // 728 > as well as epilepsy, madness, and irregular fever that has arisen. > When applied repeatedly, it destroys wrinkles and grey hair, // 729 > bestows complexion, luster, and strength, provides supreme rekindling of the \[digestive\] fire, > destroys kuṣṭha diseases, generates health, and is auspicious. // 730 > It clears the senses of one whose semen and strength are lost. > For long peppers are auspicious in the body: pungent, with a sweet aftertaste, // 731 > unctuous, of cooling potency, pervading, endowed with good qualities. > Because of their pungency they are salutary in phlegm humour, and because of unctuousness beneficial in wind humour; // 732 > because of cool nature they alleviate the bile humour; they are employed in all medical actions. > The first regimen starts from three, and another from five, // 733 > another from eight, and another from ten, having considered strength and season. > They are to be taken with milk as the post-drink, and along with the intake of milk. // 734 > The rules of conduct are as observed, and the benefits as heard from tradition; > therefore, adhering to the rules in due order, a man // 735 > should employ this \[treatment\] which increases health, fortune, strength, and lifespan. > This regimen of the increasing-dose long pepper was prescribed by the two Aśvins; // 736 > it should be employed without envy so that one may obtain success. / … > And roots, leaves, flowers, and fruits— // 737 > a wise man should gather the whole fresh Solanum nigrum plant; > he should thoroughly boil down a quarter of a tulā, finely \[cut\], in a droṇa measure of water; // 738 > when reduced to one quarter, one who knows the procedure should cook a prastha measure of sesame oil > with four times the amount of milk and these pastes: // 739 > prapauṇḍarīka, madhuka, rāsnā root, śatāvarī, > viḍaṅga, dill, and cowhage fruits. // 740 > In massage, drinking, nasal therapy, and unctuous enema, > this sesame oil dispels the eighty diseases born of the wind humour. // 741 > The fresh juice of maṇḍūkaparṇī should be employed, > or powder of yaṣṭīmadhuka with milk, > or juice of guḍūcī, or śaṅkhapuṣpī together with its root and flower—these bestow longevity, destroy diseases, // 742 > increase strength, digestive fire, complexion, and memory, and are intellect-promoting rasāyanas; > the paste of śaṅkhapuṣpī is indeed to be employed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.22) - [Next: 24.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.24.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.23) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (3) - [Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangahrdaya.7704) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit - [Bhāvaprakāśa (another edition)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.bhavaprakasa*alt.4.3.5) — Sanskrit - [Gadanigraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.gadanigraha.96.8) — Soḍhala, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.23) · Pramāṇa