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Fol. 24: Bower manuscript r1 dhanyaṃ yaśasyam āyuṣyaṃ kalyāṇaṃ maṃgalaṃ param\* // 780 // viśvāmitreṇa cābhāṣṭam ṛṣibhiś cābhipūjitam\* // 781a // {X} āśvinarasāyanam\* ṛ 2 hemante 'thāśvagandhāṃ niyatam atha tilān kṛṣṇakān bhakṣayīta saṃmiśrāḥ śarkarāyāḥ satatam iha payaḥ paścād anupibet\* / etac caiveśvareṇa 3 svayam iha vihitaṃ viṣṇor balakaraṃ yat pītvā dvādaśāhaṃ bhavati hi puruṣo vṛddho 'pi taruṇaḥ // 782 // bṛhatkaraṇaṃ {O} aśvagandhāṃ payasyāñ ca 4 saṃsṛjya payasā pibet\* / māsam ekaṃ prayuṃjānaḥ sukṛśaḥ sthūlatāṃ prajet\* // 783 // {O} atha kṛśasya bṛṃhaṇaṃ vakṣyāmaḥ nirmusalacakrahalaśabdābhihatāyāṃ bhūmau jātām aśvagandhāṃ 5 samūlapatrapuṣpāṃ sūkṣmacūrṇāni kuryāt\* / tataḥ sarpiṣā viḍālapadakam āhrtyāhani lehayet payaś cānupibet jīrṇānte payasā bhojanam aśnīyāt\* // 6 evam ekaviṃśatirātraṃ balavān bṛhaccharīraś ca bhavaty āha bṛhaspatir iti // 784 // {O} bārhaspatyaṃ bṛhatkaraṇaṃ {X} kolakulatthayavamūlakānāṃ niryūham eṣā ghṛtatailamiśram\* / 7 dadhnā yutaṃ taṇḍulasaindhavābhyāṃ jayej jvaraṃ koṣṭhagataṃ ca vāyum\* // 785 // sanāgaraṃ pippalicavyacitrakaṃ sapippalīmūlam athāpi taṇḍulān\* / yavāgur eṣā laghuśūlanāśanī 8 pradīpanī dīpayate ca pāvakam\* // 786 // {X} madhyaṃ kapitthasya sabilvamadhyaṃ cāṃgery atho dāḍimatakrasiddhā / yavāgv iyaṃ grāhaṇī pācanīyā vātāmaye syāt tu sapaṃcamūlā {O} // 787 // syāt sālaparṇī 9 hy atha pṛśniparṇī balā tathā bilvaphalasya madhyam\* / sadāḍimā taṇḍulasaṃprayuktā kaphe 'tisāre kaphapittaje tu // 788 // hrīveradhānyutpalanāgareṣu chāge payasyāṃbhasi pṛśniparṇyāḥ / 10 sataṇḍulāṃ tāṃ vipaced vidhijño raktātisāreṣu hitāṃ yavāgum\* // 789 // āme tu sāṃblāṃ saha nāgareṇa peyāṃ bhiṣak sātiviṣāñ ca dadyāt\* // sakaṇṭakārī tu bhavec chvadaṃṣṭrā saphāṇitā vastirujāsu 11 peyā // 790 // viḍaṃgy atho pippalimūlaśigruṃ suvarcikāṃ mocarasaṃ ca tadvat\* / syāt takrayuktā tu hitā yavāgū koṣṭhāśrayān hanti krimīn narasya // 791 // mṛdvīkathoṇeyakaśārivā v1 ca lājāś ca siddhā saha pippalībhiḥ / peyā suśītā madhusaṃprayuktā tṛṣṇāṃ nihanyāt 2 ^ ^ \_ pravṛddhām\* // 792 // sasomarājis tu hitā yavāgūṃ vadanti rogeṣu viṣānvayeṣu // barāhamedaḥkvathite tu siddhā syād bṛṃhaṇīyā tu nṛṇāṃ yavāgū // 793 // yavair yavāgū tu sa dāḍimāṃblā 3 satryūṣaṇā hiṃguni ced vipakvā / ghṛte sataile lavaṇe ca yuktājīrṇapratiśyāyahitā kaphe ca // 794 // gavedhukānāṃ paritāpitānāṃ syāt karśanīyā madhusaṃprayuktā // sarpiṣmatī saindhavasaṃprayuktā 4 tilair yutā snehayutā yavāgū // 795 // {O} kuśālaparṇyāḥ kvathite kaṣāye śyāmākapeyā tu virūkṣaṇīyā / hikkāsu kāseṣu tathaiva śvāse hitā yavāgū daśamūlasiddhā // 796 // 5 rujāsu pakvāśayasaṃbhavāsu hitā prasannā yamake vipakvā // māṃsaiś ca māṣaiś ca tilaiḥ saśākaiḥ siddhā bhaved varcanirasyanī tu // 797 // jaṃbvāmra-m-asthīkakapitthabilvaiḥ saṃgrāhaṇīyā 6 tu bhaved yavāgū // kṣāraṃ ca hiṃgūny atha citrakaṃ ca vṛkṣāṃblasiddhāny atha bhedanīyā // 798 // vātānulomaṃ kurute yavāgū sapippalīmūlabhayā sabilvaiḥ // takreṇa yuktā tu hitā yavāgū 7 takrānupānā ghṛtavyāpadeṣu // 799 // vyāpannatailasya hitā yavāgū udaśvipiṇyākayutā sakṣaudrā // sapippalīkāmalakair vipakvā kaṇṭhyā yavāgūr yamakopasiddhā // 800 // dadhnā tu 8 pakvā tu r-upodakā syāt sataṇḍulā syān madanāśanī tu // godhāsv apāmārgarasena caiva siddhā yavāgū tu bhavet kṣutaghnī // 801 // sapaṃcamūlā ghṛtatailamiśra sadāḍimā 9 vātaharā yavāgū / śleṣmāmayaghnī tu purāṇadhānyā // sapadmanīlotpalaśarkarā syāt siddhāṃ pibet pittaharā yavāgū // 802 // {O} agnir me mādhyagād dehād vāyuḥ prāṇān dadhātu 10 me / indro me balam ādadhyāc chivaṃ cāpo diśantu me // 803 // ity enaṃ mantram ārṣaṃ vai bhuktvā gatvā tathā striyaḥ / japamānaḥ spṛśed āpas tathāsyāyur na hīyate // 804 // bhelī yavāgū ṛ 11 ambaṣṭakī sakuṭajāphalaśṛṃgaveram āmrāsthikaṭphalajaṃbūsāram\* / syād dhātakī sahiriveraśilodbhide ca vāriṣṭhamustam api cotpalakesaraṃ 12 syāt\* // 805 // > II. Fol. 24: Bower manuscript > \[bringing\] prosperity, renown, longevity, welfare, and supreme good fortune; // 780 > and spoken by Viśvāmitra, and honored by the sages. // 781a > \[Formula for\] the Aśvins' rejuvenator. > In winter, one should regularly consume aśvagandhā, or black sesame seeds mixed with sugar, \[and\] constantly drink milk afterwards here. > And this was ordained by the Lord himself here, conferring strength like Viṣṇu's, which, having drunk for twelve days, even an old man indeed becomes young. // 782 > \[Formula for\] stoutening. > Having combined aśvagandhā and payasyā, one should drink \[them\] with milk. > Employing \[this\] for one month, one who is very emaciated would attain stoutness. // 783 > Now we shall explain stoutening for an emaciated person: > Taking aśvagandhā that has grown on ground untouched by the sounds of pestles, wheels, or plows, together with its roots, leaves, and flowers, one should make fine powders. > Then, taking a measure of a viḍālapada with clarified butter, one should lick it during the day, and drink milk afterwards; at the end of digestion, one should eat a meal with milk. > In this way, after twenty-one nights, he becomes strong and stout-bodied; thus said Bṛhaspati. // 784 > Bṛhaspati's stoutening \[formula\]. > This decoction of jujube, horse gram, barley, and radish, mixed with ghee and sesame oil, > combined with curd, rice, and rock salt, would overcome fever and the wind humour situated in the abdomen. // 785 > Rice gruel with dry ginger, long pepper, cavya, plumbago, together with long-pepper root and grains of rice, > is light, destroys colic, is an appetizer, and kindles the digestive fire. // 786 > Pulp of wood apple with pulp of bilva and cāṅgerī, prepared with pomegranate and buttermilk— > this rice gruel is bowel-binding, digestive, but in an affection of the wind humour, it should be prepared with the five roots. // 787 > It should contain śālaparṇī, pṛśniparṇī, balā, and likewise the pulp of bilva fruit, > together with pomegranate and combined with rice grains, in diarrhea caused by the phlegm humour, but \[also\] in that arising from the phlegm and bile humours. // 788 > With hrīvera, coriander, blue water lily, and dry ginger, in goat's milk and water with pṛśniparṇī, > the skilled \[physician\] should cook that rice gruel with rice grains, beneficial in cases of blood diarrhea. // 789 > In crude \[diarrhea\], the physician should administer a gruel with sour \[ingredients\], along with dry ginger and ativiṣā. > And \[a gruel\] containing kaṇṭakārī, gokṣura, and treacle, is to be drunk in cases of bladder pains. // 790 > Vidanga, and long-pepper root, drumstick, suvarcikā, and similarly red silk-cotton gum— > rice gruel combined with buttermilk is beneficial, and destroys worms residing in a person's abdomen. // 791 > Raisins, and uśīra, śārivā, and parched grain cooked along with long pepper— > a gruel very cool, mixed with honey, would destroy morbid thirst > \[…\] heightened. // 792 > They say rice gruel with somarājī is beneficial in diseases connected with poison. > Rice gruel cooked in a decoction of boar's fat would be stoutening for men. // 793 > Rice gruel of barley, however, sour with pomegranate, with the three pungents, if cooked in asafoetida, > clarified butter, sesame oil, and added salt, is beneficial in chronic coryza and in phlegm \[disorders\]. // 794 > \[Rice gruel\] made of scorched gavedhukā seeds, mixed with honey, would be emaciating. > Rice gruel containing clarified butter, combined with rock salt and sesame seeds, is unctuous. // 795 > Gruel of wild millet in a boiled decoction of kuśa and śālaparṇī is roughening. > Rice gruel cooked with the ten roots is beneficial in hiccups, coughs, and likewise in asthma. // 796 > Clear liquor cooked in a combination of two unctuous substances is beneficial in pains arising in the large intestine. > \[Rice gruel\] cooked with meats, black gram, sesame, and vegetables would be bowel-clearing. // 797 > Rice gruel \[cooked\] with stones of jambul and mango, wood apple, and bilva, however, would be bowel-binding. > Cooked with alkaline ashes, asafoetida, plumbago, and sour wood apple, it is laxative. // 798 > Rice gruel with long-pepper root, chebulic myrobalan, and bilva makes the wind humour move downward. > Rice gruel combined with buttermilk, followed by a drink of buttermilk, is beneficial in disorders caused by ghee. // 799 > Rice gruel combined with watered buttermilk, sesame cake, and honey is beneficial for one troubled by oil. > Rice gruel cooked with long pepper and emblic myrobalan, and cooked with a combination of two unctuous substances, is good for the throat. // 800 > Cooked with curd and rice, upodakā would be a destroyer of intoxication. > And rice gruel cooked with water monitor \[meat\] and juice of prickly chaff-flower would be a destroyer of hunger. // 801 > Rice gruel with the five roots, mixed with ghee and sesame oil, and with pomegranate, > destroys the wind humour; made with aged grain, it destroys disorders of the phlegm humour; > containing lotus, blue water lily, and sugar, one should drink the cooked rice gruel to dispel the bile humour. // 802 > "May fire from my central body, may wind sustain my vital breaths, > may Indra bestow strength upon me, and may the waters grant me bliss." // 803 > Having eaten and likewise having approached a woman, chanting this seer's mantra, > one should touch water; thus his lifespan is not diminished. // 804 > Bhela's rice gruels. > Ambaṣṭhā, along with kuṭaja seeds, ginger, mango-stone, kāyphal, and core of jambul, > should be \[used\], along with dhātakī, hrīvera, and stony ash; and best mustā, and stamen of the water lily should be \[used\]. // 805 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 24.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.24.3) - [Next: 26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.26) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.25) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Bhāvaprakāśa (another edition)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.bhavaprakasa*alt.4.3.13) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.25) · Pramāṇa