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# The Bower Manuscript 26

Bower Manuscript 26

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.26)

II. Fol. 25: Bower manuscript  
r1 etāni tulyadharaṇāni tulādhṛtāni badhvāpi mūṭakam athāpi nartake 'smin / prakṣālya siddha \_ chi ^ \_ pr. ^ \_ yavāgum aṃśa ^ \_ ^ ^ ^ \_ ^ ^ \_ ^ \_ x // 806 // ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ \_ ^  
2 mūlakānāṃ dadhighṛtataila tathaiva taṇḍulānām\* / parimitam api cet pibed yavāgūṃ śamayti koṣṭhagatāñ carāṃś ca vāyūn\* // 807 // ajātyavā kuṃcikaśṛṃgaveraṃ sacitrakaṃ kāravī \_ ^  
3 bhāgam\* / ghṛtena bhṛṣṭā lavaṇāṃśayuktā kalyāṇikā nāma yavāgur agryā // 808 // hatāṃ tu dīptāṃ grahaṇīṃ karoti śameti pittaṃ kaphamārutau ca / arśāṃsi vārtīkurute  
4 plihaṃ ca nihanti gulmāṃś ca halīmakaṃ ca // 809 // śatapuṣpāṃ ṣaḍīṃ bilvaṃ puṣkaraṃ citrakaṃ vacām\* / viḍaṃ sauvarcalaṃ caiva śṛṃgaveraṃ sapippalīm\* // 810 //  
5 palāṃśakaṃ ca lavaṇaṃ dāḍimaṃ tuṃburūṇi ca / kustuṃburum ajājīñ ca samabhāgāni kārayet\* // 811 // taṇḍulān yamake bhṛṣṭān yavāgūṃ sādhayed  
6 bhiṣak\* / yoniśūlam udāvartaṃ mūtrakṛcchraṃ ca sādhayet\* // 812 // yāvanto vātikā rogāḥ sarvān etān niyacchati / eṣā yavāgur  
7 ākhyātā aśvinā bhiṣajāṃ varāv iti // 813 // āśvinīyaṃ yavāgūtrayam\* {X} yavāgūkalpaḥ {X} ikṣurasāni vidāryāmalakaghṛtapayomāṣamāṃsamadhunāṃ  
8 samadhukānām\* / prasthāḥ pṛthag vidheyā rasas tu māṃsasamaṃ tulitaṃ ca // 814 // madukapalāny api paṃca prastho māṣasya lucitasya / etat sarāsvatighṛtaṃ rājarṣeḥ putrakāmasya // 815 //  
9 āmalakarasaprasthaḥ prastha ikṣurasasya ca / prastham ājasya dugdhasya payasaḥ prastham eva ca // 816 // vidārīṇāṃ rasaprasthaṃ ghṛtaprasthaṃ ca sādhayet\* / śīte dadyān madhuprasthaṃ  
10 paṃcaviṃśac ca śarkarā // 817 // maricaṃ pippalīñ caiva kuḍavau dhautacūrṇitau / jīvaṇīyaṃ ca balyaṃ ca vṛṣyaṃ caivaitad uttamam\* // 818 // ghṛtaṃ śaṭāvarīgarbhaṃ kṣīre daśaguṇe pacet\* /  
11 śarkarāpipallīkṣaudraṃ yuktaṃ tad vṛṣyam uttamam\* // 819 {O} // rasaṃ gokṣurakāt sarpiḥ dve ca dugdhe gavājayoḥ / prasṛtaṃ madhusaṃyuktaṃ yogo viṃśativegikaḥ // 820 // {O} vidārī  
12 cātmaguptā ca tathāmalakam eva ca / yavāśa saha \_ \_ x  
v1 peṣṭavyāḥ payasā saha // 821 // x x x tadghṛte bhṛṣṭaṃ śītaṃ kṛtvā madhūkṣitam\* / bhakṣayitvā naraḥ kṣīṇaḥ punar vṛṣatāṃ vrajet\* // 822 // x x x x ^ \_ \_ x x x x x ^ \_ ^ \_ /  
2 sapaṃcaśarkaraṃ cūrṇaṃ tathaiva madhusarpiṣī // 823 // ato 'kṣamātrāṃ prāśnīyāt pumān yasyāṃganāśanam\* / anaṃblakaṭukāhāro nihīnaṃ varjayed ṛtam\* // 824 // jalāḍhake 'tmaguptāyāḥ  
3 paṃcamūlapalāni tu / kvāthe tasmin payo 'dhyardhaṃ kṛtvā cūrṇāni dāpayet\* // 825 // śarkarāyā bhavet prasthaḥ prastha syān madhusarpiṣoḥ / godhūmacūrṇair baddhnīyān modakaṃ palasaṃmitam\* // 826 //  
4 ata ekaṃ naraḥ prāśya ṣaṣṭiṃ gacchati maithunam\* / puruṣaḥ kāminīkāntaḥ paramaṃ vṛṣyam ucyate // 827 // rasena caṭakānāṃ ca niścitrān nirmalāṃs tilān\* / bhāvitān yāvataḥ prāśet tāvad  
5 gacchati maithunam\* // 828 // kṣīrapakvās tu godhūmāḥ svayaṃguptāphalāni ca / śītaṃ madhughṛtāktaṃ ca prāśya gṛṣṭyā payaḥ pibet\* // 829 // prayogād asya gaccheta vṛṣatvaṃ pakṣam akṣataḥ // śvadaṃṣṭrākvāthadugdhābhyāṃ  
6 dhautān māṣān vipācayet\* // 830 // bilvamātraṃ tataḥ piṇḍaṃ bhakṣayen madhusarpiṣā / tataś cānupibet sāyaṃ śarkarāsahitaṃ payaḥ // 831 // ekāhnā gantum icched  
7 yaḥ puruṣaḥ pramadāśatam\* // vidārī payaśā bhṛṣṭā sarpiṣā madhunā saha // 832 // prāśya śītaṃ yathākāmaṃ ṣaṣṭiṃ gacchati maithunam\* // vidārīṇāṃ bhavec cūrṇaṃ tadrasenaiva  
8 bhāvitam\* // 833 // madhusarpiḥ samāyuktaṃ prāśya syād daśavegikaḥ // tathāmalakacūrṇāni bhāvitāni tu tadrase // 834 // ghṛtamākṣīkasaṃyuktaṃ  
9 prāśya syāc chatavegikaḥ // tathāśvagandhāmūlāni śuṃgāni ca phalāni ca // 835 // divā kṣīreṇa pītāni rātriṃ kurvanti viṃśikām\* //  
10 adhyaṇḍā caṭakāḥ sarpiḥ svayaṃguptāphalāni ca // 836 // pādalepaḥ prayoktavyo vṛṣo yāvan na gāṃ spṛśet\* // niṣpatraṃ caṭakaṃ kṛtvā ḍembukābhir  
11 daśāpayet\* // 837 // ghṛtaṃ tena vipakvaṃ tu pādalepaḥ praśasyate // vidārīmāṣacūrṇāni tathā lohitaśālayaḥ // 838 // barāhamedaḥsaṃyuktaṃ caṭakāṇḍarasena ca /  
12 yuktyā ca lavaṇaṃ deyaṃ ghṛte śaṣkulikāṃ pacet\* // 839 // tataḥ pāṇitalaṃ prāśya gaccheta pramadāśatam\* //

> II. Fol. 25: Bower manuscript  
> r1 Having weighed equal weights of these, tied them into a bundle, and then into this \[...\] having washed \[...\] gruel \[...\] // 806 // \[...\]  
> 2 of radishes, curds, ghee, sesame oil, and likewise of rice, / if one drinks even a measured amount of this gruel, it pacifies the roaming winds situated in the belly. // 807 // Goat's barley, black cumin, ginger, with plumbago, caraway \[...\]  
> 3 parts, / fried in ghee and mixed with a portion of salt: this superior gruel is called Kalyāṇikā. // 808 // It makes a ruined duodenum stimulated; it pacifies bile humour, phlegm humour, and wind humour; / it cures piles,  
> 4 and destroys \[enlarged\] spleen, abdominal swellings, and severe jaundice. // 809 // Fennel, zedoary, bael, costus, plumbago, sweet flag, / viḍa salt and sauvarcala salt, ginger with long pepper, // 810  
> 5 a pala of salt, pomegranate, tumbaru, / coriander, and cumin—one should make these of equal parts. // 811 // Having fried the rice grains in two oils, the physician should prepare a gruel; / it cures pain in the female organ, upward movement of wind, and dysuria. // 812  
> 6 As many vāta-born diseases as there are, it restrains them all. / This gruel was declared  
> 7 by the two Aśvins, the best among physicians. // 813 // The three gruels of the Aśvins. / The recipe for gruels. / Of sugarcane juice, vidārī, emblic myrobalan, ghee, milk, black gram, meat, honey,  
> 8 and with liquorice, / prastha measures should be taken individually; but the meat-juice, weighed, is equal to the meat. // 814 // And five palas of liquorice, and a prastha measure of husked black gram: / this is the Sarasvatī ghee for a royal sage desiring a son. // 815  
> 9 A prastha measure of emblic myrobalan juice, a prastha measure of sugarcane juice, / a prastha measure of goat's milk, and also a prastha measure of milk, // 816  
> 10 a prastha measure of vidārī juice, and a prastha measure of ghee should be cooked. When cooled, one should add a prastha measure of honey / and twenty-five \[palas\] of sugar, // 817  
> 11 and black pepper and long pepper, \[each\] a kuḍava measure, washed and powdered. / This is vitalising, strengthening, and an excellent aphrodisiac. // 818 // One should cook ghee containing asparagus within it in tenfold milk; // 819  
> 12 mixed with sugar, long pepper, and honey, it is an excellent aphrodisiac. // 819 // Juice of small caltrop, clarified butter, and two milks—of cow and goat—, / an outstretched palm measure \[each\], combined with honey: this recipe is endowed with twenty-fold potency. // 820 // Vidārī,  
> 13 and cowhage, and likewise emblic myrobalan, / camel-thorn along with \[...\],  
> v1 should be ground with milk. // 821 // \[...\] fried in that ghee, cooled, and sprinkled with honey; / having eaten it, an emaciated man may regain virility. // 822 // \[...\]  
> 2 powder with five parts of sugar, and likewise honey and clarified butter. // 823 // From this, a man whose sexual power has been destroyed should eat an akṣa measure; / taking a diet devoid of sour and pungent tastes, he should avoid forbidden sex. // 824 // In an āḍhaka measure of water, five palas  
> 3 of cowhage and the five roots; / in that decoction, having added one and a half \[prasthas\] of milk, one should put the powders. // 825 // There should be a prastha measure of sugar, and a prastha measure of honey and clarified butter; / with wheat flour one should fashion balls of a pala measure. // 826  
> 4 Having eaten one of these, a man approaches intercourse sixty times; / a man becomes beloved to passionate women; it is said to be the supreme aphrodisiac. // 827 // With the broth of sparrows, unspotted, clean sesame seeds, / as many of which steeped \[in it\] as one eats, so many times  
> 5 does one engage in intercourse. // 828 // Wheat cooked in milk and cowhage fruits, / cooled and smeared with honey and ghee, eaten, one should drink the milk of a cow that has calved once. // 829 // Through the use of this, he attains virility for a fortnight without harm. One should cook black gram,  
> 6 washed, with a decoction of caltrop and milk. // 830 // Then one should eat a bael-sized lump with honey and clarified butter, / and then drink milk with sugar in the evening, // 831  
> 7 if a man desires to approach a hundred women in a single day. / Vidārī fried in milk with clarified butter and honey, // 832  
> 8 having eaten it cooled, according to his desire, he approaches intercourse sixty times. / There should be a powder of vidārī, steeped in its own juice, // 833  
> 9 mixed with honey and clarified butter; having eaten it, he would possess ten-fold potency. / Likewise, powders of emblic myrobalan steeped in its own juice, // 834  
> 10 combined with ghee and honey, / having eaten it, he would possess a hundred-fold potency. / Likewise, ashwagandha roots, shoots, and fruits, // 835  
> 11 drunk with milk during the day, make twenty-fold \[potency\] at night. / Adhyaṇḍā, sparrows, clarified butter, and cowhage fruits: // 836  
> 12 a foot-unguent should be applied, \[and he remains\] a bull as long as he does not touch the earth. / Having stripped a sparrow of its feathers, one should have it stung by red ants; // 837  
> 13 ghee cooked with that is praised as a foot-unguent. / Powders of vidārī and black gram, likewise red rice, // 838  
> 14 combined with boar's fat and sparrow-egg juice, / and salt should be added properly, one should fry a round cake in ghee. // 839 // Then, having eaten a palmful, he may approach a hundred women.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Linked texts (1)

- [Bheḷasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.8.8.81) — Bheḷa, Sanskrit

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