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Fol. 27: Bower manuscript r1 x x x x x ca ṣoḍaśa // 876 // madhuyaṣṭikā śarkarā ca vartiḥ sadyotthite 'kṣiṇi // sauvarcalaṃ haridre dve triphalā kaṭukatrikam\* // 877 // madhukena samāyuktaṃ śreṣṭhaṃ timiranāśanam\* // 878a // jātī śaṃkhamanaḥśilā 2 samadhukā phenaṃ samudrāt tathā maṃjiṣṭhā maricāṃjanaṃ samadhṛtaṃ prācīnikā pippalī / dadyāc caiva samāṃśikā dviguṇitaṃ yat tac chubhaṃ gairikaṃ sarvavyādhivināśanī 3 hitatamā vartiḥ smṛtākṣyāmayeti // 879 // {O} prācīnikā pāṭhā {O} prapauṇḍarīkaṃ madhukaṃ śarkarā samanaḥśilā / śaṃkhaṃ pippalīvījāni rasāṃjanam athāñjanam\* // 880 // rītīpuṣpaṃ phalaṃ caiva 4 katakasya sasaindhavan\* / samudraphenaṃ maricaṃ samabhāgāni mākṣikam\* // 881 // chāyāsu śuṣkā guḍikāḥ suniguptā nidhāpayet\* / pillānāṃ romajananī vartiḥ sarvākṣirogiṇām\* // 882 // sroto 5 'ñjanasya bhāgo bhāgaś ca bhavet samudraphenasya / śvetamaricasya bhāgo bhāgo 'py atha pippalīnāṃ ca // 883 // lavaṇākṣabhāgayuktaṃ niminā paramārcitaṃ hitam udāram\* / 6 timirāpahaṃ susukṣmaṃ cūrṇaṃ syād āryajanayogyam\* / {O} gairikaṃ śārkarā caiva puṣpāṃjanam athāpi ca / madhunā saṃprayuktaiṣā netrāmayarasakriyā // 885 // 7 abhayāyās trayo bhāgā bhāgaḥ syād viśvabheṣajāt\* / vartir apsu-m-iyaṃ piṣṭā sarvanetrāmaye hitā // 886 // 8 sitamaricasamudraphenaṃ sitāśarkarāṃ śaṃkhanābhī rajas tāmrajaḥ katakaphalam ayorajo garmuḍīmūlam elāṃ tathā saindhavam\* / 9 api ca kaṭukarohiṇī pippalīnāṃ kaṇāḥ piṣya varty aṃbhasā kārayet timirapaṭalakaṇḍukācāpahā rātri-m-andhāpahā vartir eṣā śivā // 887 // 10 aguruṃ candanaṃ patraṃ kuṅkumaṃ ca sakesaram\* / bṛhatī śvetamaricaṃ bhadramustām athotpalam\* // 888 // etāni samabhāgāni nārīkṣīreṇa pīṣayet\* / nārīkṣīrasyālābhe 11 tu chāgīkṣīreṇa pīṣayet\* // 889 // kaṇḍūtimiram āsrāvaṃ tathā lohitarājayaḥ / nakta-m-andhaṃ tathaivānyān netrarogān niyacchati // 890 // v1 x x x karavīrakaṃ tilatailena pācayet\* / nāsyābhyaṃjanayogo 'yaṃ siddhaḥ palitanāśanaḥ // 891 // prapauṇḍarīka \_ \_ x x x x x x^ \_ ^ \_ / x x x x ^ \_ \_ x x x x x x^ \_ ^ \_ // 892 // x x 2 x x ^ piṣṭo 'yaṃ lepaḥ palitanāśanaḥ // rocanā kācamācī ca śatapuṣpā tilās tathā // 893 // anena mrakṣitāḥ keśā bhavanty aṃjanasannibhāḥ // nīlīkā saindhavaṃ 3 caiva jalapiṣṭā ca pippalī // 894 // anena mrakṣitāḥ keśā bhavanty aṃjanasannibhāḥ // abhayāmalakābhyāṃ ca pūrvaṃ prakṣālayec chiraḥ // 895 // alaṃbusaṃ 4 ca saṃgṛhya pīṣen nīlikayā saha / tenoṣṇena śiro liṃpet palitaṃ na bhaviṣyati // 896 // tutthamustaṃ sakāsīsaṃ kurmapittam ayorajaḥ / 5 dantī ca sahadevā ca bhāgo bhṛṃgarajasya ca // 897 // vibhītakānāṃ tailena siddhaṃ palitanāśanam\* / abhyaṃgaṃ satataṃ kuryāt\* 6 palitaṃ na bhaviṣyati // 898 // bhṛṃgarajarasaprasthaṃ tadvat payasaḥ palaṃ ca madhukasya / tailakuḍave vipakvaṃ kuryāt\* 7 kṛṣṇām api balākām\* // 899 // nāśayati balīpalitaṃ dvādaśa varṣāṇi saptarātreṇa / māsena ca varṣaśataṃ nastaḥkarmaprayogena // 900 // 8 rāmataruṇyā dve mūlapale palaṃ ca madhukasya / śābarakasyārdhapalaṃ daśa ca palān akṣatailasya // 901 // ādityena vipakvaṃ pātre 9 kārṣṇāyase daśāhāni / kuryān nastaḥkarma bhramarasavarṇāni palitāni // 902 // āmalakarasaprasthaḥ sarpiḥprasthaḥ palaṃ ca madhukasya / saṃbhṛtya sarvam etad vaidyo mṛdvagninā 10 vipacet\* // 903 // andham anandhaṃ kuryāt palitam apalitaṃ tathaiva dṛḍhadattam\* / etan nastaḥkaraṇaṃ gatām api nivartayati dṛṣṭiṃ // 904 // triphalāṃ ca samāṃ kuryān nīlīṃ nīlotpalāni ca / 11 akṣamātrān pṛthag bhāgān phalaṃ piṇḍārakasya ca // 905 // aṃjanaṃ pippalīmūlaṃ patraṃ sahacarasya ca / jaṃbūkaṣāyaḥ kartavyaḥ jaṃbūmūlāc ca mṛttikām\* // 906 // > II. Fol. 27: Bower manuscript > \[… and sixteen. // 876 > Liquorice and sugar made into a wick-collyrium \[are for\] sudden eye trouble. Rock salt, the two turmerics, the three myrobalans, the three pungents, // 877 > together with liquorice: an excellent destroyer of timira cataract. // 878a > Jasmine, conch shell, realgar, liquorice, cuttlefish bone, madder, pepper, collyrium in equal parts, prācīnikā, long pepper, > and one should add an equal part, doubled, of fine red ochre: this most wholesome wick-collyrium, destroyer of all diseases, is proclaimed for eye disorders. // 879 > Prācīnikā, pāṭhā, prapauṇḍarīka, liquorice, sugar, realgar, > conch shell, long pepper seeds, rasāñjana, antimony collyrium, // 880 > brass flower, clearing-nut fruit along with rock salt, > cuttlefish bone, pepper in equal parts, \[and\] honey: // 881 > one should store the pills dried in the shade well-hidden. > This wick-collyrium, which generates eyelashes for blepharitis sufferers, is for all patients with eye disease. // 882 > There should be one part of srotāñjana collyrium, and one part of cuttlefish bone, > one part of white pepper, and also one part of long pepper; // 883 > combined with one part of rock salt, highly revered by Nimi, wholesome and noble, > this very fine powder, capable of removing timira cataract, is fit for noble folk. // 884 > Red ochre, sugar, and puṣpāñjana collyrium, > applied with honey: this is an extract-application for eye diseases. // 885 > Three parts of chebulic myrobalan, and one part should be of dry ginger; > this wick-collyrium ground in water is beneficial in all eye disorders. // 886 > White pepper, cuttlefish bone, white sugar, center of a conch shell, copper dust, clearing-nut fruit, iron filings, garmuḍī root, cardamom, and rock salt, > and also picrorhiza, long pepper corns: grinding \[these\], one should make a wick-collyrium with water. > Destroying timira cataract, membrane films, itching, and glass-like blindness, and banishing night blindness, this wick-collyrium is auspicious. // 887 > Aloe wood, sandalwood, cassia leaf, and saffron with stamens, > Indian nightshade, white pepper, nut grass, and blue lotus: // 888 > one should grind these equal parts with women's milk; > in the absence of women's milk, however, one should grind them with goat's milk. // 889 > It curbs itching, timira cataract, eye discharge, red streaks, > night blindness, and likewise other eye diseases. // 890 > \[…\] one should boil oleander with sesame oil; > this formulation, for nasal medication and inunction, is proven to destroy greying of hair. // 891 > Prapauṇḍarīka \[…\] // 892 > \[…\] ground, this paste destroys greying of hair. > Gaurocana, black nightshade, dill, and sesame: // 893 > smeared with this, the hairs become like collyrium. > Indigo and rock salt, and long pepper ground with water: // 894 > smeared with this, the hairs become like collyrium. > And beforehand one should wash the head with chebulic myrobalan and emblic myrobalan. // 895 > Taking Indian globe thistle, one should grind it together with indigo; > with that applied warm to the head, greying of hair will not occur. // 896 > Blue vitriol, nut grass, copperas, turtle's bile, iron filings, > dantī, sahadevā, and a portion of bhṛṅgarāja: // 897 > prepared with oil of belleric myrobalan, this destroys greying of hair; > one should perform inunction constantly: greying will not occur. // 898 > A prastha measure of bhṛṅgarāja juice, likewise of milk, and a pala measure of liquorice, > boiled in a kuḍava measure of oil, would make even a crane black. // 899 > It destroys wrinkles and greying of hair of twelve years in seven nights, > and of a hundred years in a month, by the administration of nasal medication. // 900 > Two pala measures of roots of rāmataruṇī, and a pala measure of liquorice, > half a pala measure of lodh tree bark, and ten pala measures of belleric myrobalan oil, // 901 > boiled by the sun in a vessel of black iron for ten days: > one should perform nasal medication; the greying hairs become bee-coloured. // 902 > A prastha measure of emblic myrobalan juice, a prastha measure of clarified butter, and a pala measure of liquorice: > having assembled all this, the physician should boil it over a gentle fire. // 903 > It would make the blind un-blind, and likewise the greying un-greying, when firmly administered; > this nasal treatment restores even lost vision. // 904 > And one should take equal parts of the three myrobalans, indigo, blue lotuses, > each in the amount of an akṣa measure, and fruit of piṇḍāraka, // 905 > collyrium, long pepper root, and leaf of sahacara; > a decoction of rose-apple should be made, and earth from the root of a rose-apple tree. // 906 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.27) - [Next: 29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.29) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.28) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.28) · Pramāṇa