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Fol. 26: Bower manuscript r1 x x x x ^ \_ \_ .dh. x x ta madhusarpiṣā // 840 // dugdhānupāne grīṣme ca daśa gaccheta maithunam\* // x x x x ^ \_ \_ x x x x x ^ \_ ^ \_ // 841 // x x x ^ \_ \_ x 2 visagranthirasāṣṭamaḥ / ājena payasā piṣṭvā ghṛte śaṣkulikāṃ pacet\* // 842 // aṃguṣṭhaparvamātreṇa vegārdha x ^ .ū ^ \_ / x x x x ^ \_ \_ x x x x x ^ \_ \_ ^ // 843 // 3 anupītvā surāmaṇḍaṃ naras tena vṛṣāyati // tṛptaḥ kukkuṭamāṃsānāṃ gatvā yo 'nupibet payaḥ // 844 // na tasya liṃgaśaithilyaṃ na ca śukrakṣayo bhavet\* // 4 yo māṣayūṣṇā bhuktvā tu ghṛtāḍhyaṃ ṣaṣṭikodanam\* // 845 // payaḥ pibeta rātriṃ yaḥ kṛtsnāṃ jāgarti vegavān\* // śarkarāmadhudugdhaṃ ca ghṛtaṃ trikaṭukaṃ 5 saraḥ // 846 // śritam ekadhyam etad vai pibed indrapriyaṃ payaḥ // 847a // {O} auśanaso yogaḥ indrapriyaḥ {O} nāvanītake siddhasaṃkarṣe nānācāryamate 6 vṛṣayogāḥ samāptāḥ {X} śaṃkhasya bhāgāś catvāras tato 'rdhena manaḥśilā / manaḥśilārdhe maricaṃ maricārdhe ca saindhavam\* // 848 // eṣā vaidehikā 7 vartir vardha ttī nāśayed gadān\* / ālūnaṃ paṭalaṃ kācaṃ malaṃ lohitarājitām\* // 849 // śaṃkhaṃ pīṣed gavāṃ kṣīre ajakṣīre manaḥśilām\* / avīkṣīre ca maricaṃ mānuṣeṇa 8 ca saindhavam\* // 850 // ekamaricā dvikatakā triśarkarā catusamudrapheṇayutā / puṣpāṃjanapaṃcayutā vartiḥ sarvākṣirogeṣu // 851 // śarkarāgairikakṣaudraṃ puṣpāñjanam athāpi ca / eṣā rasakriya 9 mukhyā sarvanetrarujāpahā // 852 // dadhnā lavaṇamiśreṇa mṛdnīyāt pātram āyasam\* / śūlārttam añjayen netram āśu svasthaṃ bhaviṣyati // 853 // saindhavaṃ bṛhatī tāmraṃ kaṭukāṃ śaṃkhapipallīm\* / 10 śuṣkākṣirogaṃ śuklaṃ ca hanti pailyaṃ ca kokilā // 854 // pippalībhir haridrābhir mṛdnīyād darpaṇaṃ muhuḥ / śūlārttam aṃjayen netram āśu svasthaṃ bhaviṣyati // 855 // cīḍāyāḥ 11 anehavat kāṣṭhaṃ sūkṣmacūrṇāni kārayet\* / tac cūrṇaṃ vastamūtreṇa trirātraṃ paribhāvayet\* // 856 // etac cūrṇāṃjanaṃ śreṣṭhaṃ pailyakrimivināśanam\* // 857a // kuṅkumarasena timiraṃ nihanti 12 śuṣkākṣirogam udakena / āsannāni ca madhunā sadyotpatitāni payasā ca // 858 // v1 x x x x ^ \_ \_ x timirasya ca nāśanam\* // kṛṣṇasarpasya medaḥ syād dhātrīphalarasas tathā // 859 // etābhyāṃ kṣaudrayuktābhyāṃ tryahād andhaḥ prapaśyati // uśīraṃ tagaraṃ caiva saindhavaṃ 2 paripelavam\* // 860 // tvacaṃ ca gairikaṃ caiva piṣṭāni syur viḍālakam\* // manohvā saha tailena chāgakṣīreṇa cāṃjanaṃ // 861 // gairikaṃ vastamūtreṇa vṛṣamūtreṇa pippalīm\* / samabhāgāni 3 piṣṭāni tato vartiṃ prakalpayet\* // 862 // eṣā pilleṣu yoktavyā yasya cāsru na tiṣṭhati // manaḥśilām aṃjanaṃ ca śvetāni maricāni ca // 863 // sarvāṇy ekapramāṇāni cūrṇaṃ 4 timiranāśanam\* // triphalaṃ saharidrāṃ ca samāṃśān salile pacet\* // 864 // sārase kṣīrasaṃsṛṣṭe saseko vedanāpahaḥ // imaṃ yogottamaṃ siddhaṃ prayuṃjīn matimān bhiṣak\* // 865 // 5 sarveṣu netrarogeṣu śūlavatsu viśeṣataḥ // punarnavāyāḥ patrāṇi bṛhatīṃ kaṇṭakārikām\* // 866 // śvadaṃṣṭrāṃ vardhamānaṃ ca kṣīreṇājena kvāthayet\* / etad āścyotanaṃ 6 śreṣṭhaṃ payomadhusukhodakaiḥ // 867 // tāṃrapātraṃ ghṛtābhyaktaṃ chāgaśṛṃgena dhūpitam\* / nārīkṣīreṇa mṛditaṃ śūlaghnaṃ pariṣecanam\* // 868 // prapauṇḍarīkaṃ madhukaṃ 7 śaileyaṃ kṣaudram eva ca / yathāvaj jarjarīkṛtvā badhnīyān nartake śucau // 869 // jalena bahuśaḥ siktaṃ pīḍitaṃ ca muhur muhuḥ / āścyotanam udāraṃ syān netrayor 8 bhṛśaśūlayoḥ // 870 // dvayor bṛhatyor mūlatvak pippalī viśvabheṣajam\* / saindhavaṃ tāmrasaṃyuktaṃ kṣīreṇa saha pīṣayet\* // 871 // ślakṣṇapiṣṭān 9 tu tāṃ kṛtvā lepayet tāmrabhājanam\* / saptarātram athāṣṭāhaṃ piṣṭvā piṣṭvā pralepayet\* // 872 // aṃjanīta tataś cakṣurvedanārttanivarhaṇam\* / 10 śvayathuṃ tāmrarājiṃ ca prasahya vinivartayet\* // 873 // ālūnaṃ paṭalaṃ kācaṃ timiraṃ cāpakarṣati // rasāñjanasya dha \_ ^ manaḥśilā ^ \_ ^ \_ // 874 // x x x x x^ \_ \_ x 11 kuśamūlaṃ ca dāpayet\* / kṣaudrayuktaṃ bhaved etat srāvakaṇḍūvināśanam\* // 875 // ālūnaṃ timiraṃ caiva sarvākṣiroganāśanam\* // x x x x x^ \_ \_ x > II. Fol. 26: Bower manuscript > \[…\] with honey and clarified butter. // 840 > With milk as an after-drink, in summer too, one may engage in sexual intercourse ten \[times\]. \[…\] // 841 > \[…\] having lotus-root juice as the eighth \[ingredient\]; grinding it with goat's milk, one should cook a pastry in ghee. // 842 > In the measure of a thumb-joint, \[…with\] half the impetus \[…\] // 843 > After drinking clear spirit scum after it, a man becomes sexually potent like a bull. > One who, satiated with cock's meat, after copulation drinks milk, // 844 > For him there is neither flaccidity of the penis nor loss of semen. > One who, having eaten ṣaṣṭika rice rich in ghee with black gram broth, // 845 > Drinks milk, stays awake the entire night full of vigor. > Sugar, honey, milk, ghee, the three pungents, \[and\] fresh butter, // 846 > Boiled together into one: he should indeed drink this milk pleasing to Indra. // 847a > The formulation of Uśanas, pleasing to Indra. > In the Nāvanītaka, an epitome of proven recipes, according to the doctrine of various teachers, > The aphrodisiac formulations are concluded. > Four parts of conch-shell, half that of realgar; > Half of realgar of black pepper, and half of black pepper of rock salt: // 848 > This Vaidehika collyrium-stick, increasing \[…\], destroys diseases: > Alūna, cataract-film, kāca-blindness, impurit\[ies\], and red streaks. // 849 > One should grind conch-shell in cow's milk, realgar in goat's milk, > Black pepper in ewe's milk, and rock salt with human milk. // 850 > One \[part\] black pepper, two clearing-nut, three sugar, with four cuttlefish bone, > With five calx of brass: a collyrium-stick in all eye diseases. // 851 > Sugar, red ochre, honey, and also calx of brass: > This prime extract-paste removes all eye pain. // 852 > One should rub an iron vessel with curd mixed with salt; > One should apply it to an eye afflicted with sharp pain: it will quickly become healthy. // 853 > Rock salt, bṛhatī, copper \[ash\], picrorhiza, conch-shell, long pepper; > The \[collyrium named\] Kokilā destroys dry eye disease, white opacity, and blepharitis. // 854 > With long peppers and turmerics one should repeatedly rub a mirror; > One should apply it to an eye afflicted with sharp pain: it will quickly become healthy. // 855 > One should reduce the dry wood of the cīḍā \[tree\] into fine powders; > One should steep that powder with he-goat's urine for three nights. // 856 > This excellent powder-collyrium destroys blepharitis and worms. // 857a > With saffron juice it destroys dark vision; > With water, dry eye disease; > With honey, recent \[affections\]; > And with milk, those that have suddenly arisen. // 858 > \[…\] and the destruction of dark vision. > Fat of a black cobra and juice of emblic myrobalan fruits: // 859 > With these two combined with honey, a blind man sees within three days. > Khus-khus, tagara, rock salt, cyperus, // 860 > Cinnamon bark, and red ochre: ground, they constitute a viḍālaka eye-plaster. > Realgar along with sesame oil and goat's milk is a collyrium. // 861 > Red ochre with he-goat's urine, long pepper with bull's urine: > Ground in equal parts, one should then fashion a collyrium-stick. // 862 > This should be applied in blepharitis cases, and when one's tears do not cease. > Realgar, collyrium, and white peppercorns: // 863 > All in equal measure, a powder that destroys dark vision. > The three myrobalans with turmeric, equal parts, one should boil in water; // 864 > When mixed with milk in a shallow dish, irrigation with it relieves pain. > A wise physician should employ this supreme, proven formulation // 865 > In all eye diseases, especially those accompanied by sharp pain. > Leaves of punarnavā, bṛhatī, kaṇṭakārī, // 866 > Gokhru, and castor: one should decoct them with goat's milk. > This is an excellent eye-drop, along with milk, honey, and lukewarm water. // 867 > A copper vessel smeared with ghee, fumigated with goat's horn, > \[And\] rubbed with woman's milk: an irrigation that relieves sharp pain. // 868 > Prapauṇḍarīka, madhuka, lichen, and honey: > Having properly crushed them, one should bind them in a clean strainer cloth. // 869 > Sprinkled plentifully with water and squeezed again and again, > It makes a noble eye-drop for eyes with intense sharp pain. // 870 > Root bark of the two bṛhatīs, long pepper, dry ginger, > Rock salt, combined with copper \[ash\]: one should grind them with milk. // 871 > Having ground them smooth, one should smear a copper vessel; > For seven nights or eight days, grinding and grinding, one should smear it. // 872 > One should then apply it as a collyrium: it removes the affliction of pain in the eyes, > And forcibly turns back edema and red lines. // 873 > It also draws out alūna, cataract-film, kāca-blindness, and dark vision. > Of rasāñjana \[…\] realgar \[…\] // 874 > \[…\] and one should add kuśa grass root; > Combined with honey, this destroys discharge and itching, // 875 > Alūna and dark vision, destroying all eye diseases. \[…\] > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.26) - [Next: 28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.28) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.27) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.27) · Pramāṇa