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Fol. 23: Bower manuscript r1 medhyā viśeṣeṇa tu śaṃkhapuṣpī // 743 // ghṛtamākṣikasaṃyuktaṃ madhukaṃ yaḥ piben naraḥ / kṣīrānupāyī strīvarjyaḥ sa jīvec charadāṃ śatam\* // 744 // paṃcāṣṭau sapta daśa vāpi 2 pippalyo madhusarpiṣā / rasāyanaguṇānveṣī māsam ekaṃ prayojayet\* // 745 // tisras tisras tu pūrvāhṇe bhuktvāgre bhojanasya ca / pippalyaḥ 3 kiṃśukakṣārabhāvitā ghṛtabharjitāḥ // 746 // prayojyā ghṛtasaṃmiśrā rasāyanaguṇaiṣiṇā / jetuṃ kāsaṃ kṣayaṃ śoṣaṃ śvāsaṃ hikkāṃ galāmayam\* // 747 // arśāṃsi 4 grahaṇīdoṣaṃ pāṇḍutāṃ viṣamajvaram\* / pīnasaṃ svarabhedaṃ ca gulmaṃ vātabalāsakam\* // 748 // {X} pippalīprayogaḥ ślo 5 {O} kramavṛddhyā daśāhāni daśapippalikaṃ dinam\* / vardhayet 5 payasā sārdhaṃ tathaivānupiben naraḥ // 749 // jīrṇe jīrṇe ca bhoktavyaṃ ṣaṣṭikaṃ kṣīrasarpiṣā / pippalīnāṃ sahasrasya prayogo 'yaṃ rasāyanaḥ // 750 // piṣṭās tā balibhiḥ sevyā śritā madhyabalair naraiḥ / 6 yas tripippaliparyantaḥ prayogaḥ sa tu kanyasaḥ // 751 // bṛṃhaṇaṃ svaryam āyuṣyaṃ plihodaravināśanam\* / vayasaḥ sthāpanaṃ medhyaṃ pippalīnāṃ rasāyanam iti // 752 // {X} 7 pippalīprayogo dvitīyaḥ {X} śaranmukhe nāgabalāṃ puṣyeṇoddhārayed bhiṣak\* / mūlaṃ tasyāḥ śucirbhūtvā sūkṣmacūrṇāni kārayet\* // 753 // tasya cūrṇasya karṣaṃ tu dugdhenāloḍya pāyayet\* / 8 jīrṇe dugdhaṃ ca pātavyam annaṃ ca parivarjayet\* // 754 // kramaśaḥ saptarātreṇa vardhayīta palaṃ palam\* / tataḥ palonaṃ pātavyaṃ yāvan na syād upadravaḥ // 755 // apaśyataś ca strīśūdram āraṇyaṃ caitad > II. Fol. 23: Bower manuscript > Śaṅkhapuṣpī, however, is especially promoting of intellect. // 743 > A man who drinks liquorice combined with ghee and honey, drinking milk after it and avoiding women, shall live for a hundred autumns. // 744 > Or five, eight, seven, or ten long peppers with honey and clarified butter > should be used for one month by one seeking the qualities of a rejuvenating tonic (rasāyana). // 745 > Three long peppers each in the forenoon, after eating, and before the meal, > macerated in kiṃśuka alkali and fried in ghee, // 746 > combined with ghee, should be used by one desiring the qualities of a rejuvenating tonic > to conquer cough, consumption, wasting, dyspnoea, hiccup, throat disease, // 747 > hemorrhoids, impairment of the digestive fire, jaundice, irregular fever, > chronic catarrh, hoarseness of voice, abdominal tumor (gulma), and vātabalāsaka. // 748 > Application of long pepper: 5 verses. > Increasing gradually for ten days, a man should increase by ten long peppers a day, > taken along with milk, and similarly drink \[milk\] after it. // 749 > When each meal is digested, he should eat ṣaṣṭika rice with milk and clarified butter. > This is a rejuvenating tonic regimen using a thousand long peppers. // 750 > Ground into a paste, they are to be consumed by the strong; boiled, by men of moderate strength. > That regimen which extends only up to three long peppers is the mildest. // 751 > It is nourishing, beneficial to the voice, longevity-promoting, curative of enlargement of the spleen and abdomen, > stabiliser of youth, and intellect-promoting: thus is the rejuvenating tonic of long pepper. // 752 > Second application of long pepper. > At the beginning of autumn, under the constellation Puṣya, a physician should dig up nāgabalā; > having purified himself, he should reduce its root to fine powder. // 753 > Stirring a karṣa measure of that powder into milk, he should make \[the patient\] drink it; > when it is digested, milk should be drunk, and \[solid\] food should be avoided. // 754 > Gradually over seven nights, he should increase it pala measure by pala measure; > then it should be drunk decreased by a pala measure, so long as no complication arises. // 755 > And unseen by women and Śūdras, and dwelling in the forest, this > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.23) - [Next: 24.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.24.2) - [Up: 24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.24) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.24.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (3) - [Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangahrdaya.7763) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit - [Bheḷasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.8.76) — Bheḷa, Sanskrit - [Gadanigraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.gadanigraha.96.19) — Soḍhala, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.24.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.24.1) · Pramāṇa