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II. Fol. 31: Bower manuscript
r1 muhus tu guḍikām ekāṃ kumārāya pradāpayet* // atīsāreṣu bālānāṃ guḍikāṃ dāpayed bhiṣak* // 1011 // taṇḍulodakasaṃyuktāṃ kṣaudreṇa saha dāpayet* /
2 parūṣakarasair yuktaṃ śarkarākṣaudrasaṃyutām* // 1012 // chardayānasya bālasya guḍikāṃ dāpayed bhiṣak* / guḍūcirasasaṃyuktāṃ śarkarākṣaudrasaṃyutām* // 1013 // athavā pakvaloṣṭhasya prasādena
3 pradāpayet* / śarkarākṣaudrasaṃyuktāṃ tathā saṃpadyate sukhī // 1014 // raktātisāre bālānāṃ guḍikāṃ dāpayed bhiṣak* / paṃcavalkakaṣāyeṇa taṇḍulānāṃ rasena vā // 1015 // śarkarākṣaudrasaṃyuktāṃ
4 śaśasya rudhireṇa vā / aiṇeyahariṇābhyāṃ vā raktair madhumiśritaiḥ // 1016 // udāvarteṣu bālānāṃ guḍikāṃ dāpayed bhiṣak* / guḍodakena saṃyuktāṃ triphalāyā rasena
5 vā // 1017 // āmātisāre bālānāṃ guḍikāṃ dāpayed bhiṣak* / dadhimaṇḍena saṃyuktāṃ tintiḍīkarasena vā // 1018 // śarkarā cāśmarī caiva mūtragrāhe pramehiṣi / guḍikāṃ dāpayed vaidyo
6 madhunātha prasannayā // 1019 // āsavena sujātena bālānāṃ dāpayed bhiṣak* / sukhaṃ bhavati tenāsya kāśyapasya vaco yathā // 1020 // tena koṣṭhagato jantuḥ kṣipram eva
7 pramucyate / śirorogeṣu śamanaṃ vamanaṃ caiva śāmyati // 1021 // krimir gudagato yasya guḍikāyāḥ pralepayet* / tenāsya saukhyaṃ bhavati kāśyapasya
8 vaco yathā // 1022 // avijñāteṣu rogeṣu guḍikāṃ dāpayed bhiṣak* / sukhodakena saṃyuktāṃ sarvarogavināśanīm* // 1023 // samīkṣya kuśalo vaidyaḥ kurvīta vividhāḥ kriyāḥ / balābalañ
9 ca bālānām ṛtuṃ kālaṃ samīkṣya ca // 1024 // kriyāṃ paṃcavidhāṃ vaidyo dhātṝṇām upapādayet* / virekaṃ vamanaṃ caiva tathaivāpy anuvāsanam* // 1025 // parikartikāsu bālānāṃ guḍikāṃ dāpayed bhiṣak* /
10 varāhaviṣṭāsaṃyuktān tathā taṇḍuladhāvanaiḥ // 1026 // śarkarākṣaudrasaṃyuktāṃ pāyayīta cikitsakaḥ /
v1 sukhī bhavati tāṃ pītvā kāśyapasya vaco yathā // 1027 // hikkāśvāseṣu kāseṣu guḍikāṃ dāpayed bhiṣak* / mātuluṃgena saṃyuktāṃ gandhasauvarcalena vā // 1028 //
2 jantubhir bādhyamānasya guḍikāṃ dāpayed bhiṣak* / dāḍimodakasaṃyuktāṃ madhunātha prasannayā // 1029 // tathā śirovirekāṃś ca lehān pravyaṃjanāni ca / bhujyatāṃ bhojanaṃ caiṣā yavāgūr
3 laghubhojanam* // 1030 // kāmalāpāṇḍurogeṣu śvayathūnāṃ tathaiva ca / yuktāṃ pīlukaṣāyeṇa guḍikāṃ dāpayed bhiṣak* // 1031 // rohiṇyāṃ tāluśoṣe vā galagaṇḍopajihvike / cūrṇitāṃ guḍikāṃ
4 dadyād dantamāṃsaṃ ca pīḍayet* // 1032 // sukhena dantā jāyante śvayathuś copaśāmyati / tenāsya rogāḥ śāmyante ārogyaṃ cādhigacchati // 1033 // dadrukuṣṭhakilāsānāṃ pāmāsv atha vicarcike /
5 tvaggateṣu ca rogeṣu guḍikāṃ dāpayed bhiṣak* // 1034 // kaṃpilyakasya cūrṇāni cūrṇāni guḍikāya ca / piṣṭvā sarṣapatailena tenainam anulepayet* // 1035 // gomūtreṇa
6 sukhoṣṇena khādireṇa rasena vā / secyo nimbakaṣāyeṇa tena saṃpadyate sukhī // 1036 // chāyā vā pūtanā vāpi yasya vāpy uparigrahaḥ / vastamūtreṇa saṃyojya guḍikāṃ
7 tasya dāpayet* // 1037 // athavā kalkapiṣṭāyāṃ guḍikāyāṃ pralepayet* / tathā sarvagrahās tasya praśāmyanti sudāruṇāḥ // 1038 // pārśvaśūleṣu bālānāṃ
8 guḍikāṃ dāpayed bhiṣak* / kulattharasasaṃyuktāṃ yuktāṃ māṃsarasena vā // 1039 // dhātryāḥ śuddhaśarīrāyāḥ doṣāḥ śāmyanti dāruṇāḥ / balaṃ varṇaṃ ca bālānāṃ kṣipraṃ samupajāyate // 1040 // ṛ
9 kāśyapīyā guḍikā // {X} atha vitrasate bālo rodate 'bhīkṣṇam eva vā / triphalāṃ saha pippalyo lehayen madhusarpiṣā // 1041 // maṇḍalāni vivarṇāni gātre lakṣyanti yasya tu
10 daśamūlaiḥ supiṣṭais taṃ ghṛtamiśraiḥ pralepayet* // 1042 // kalkaiḥ punarnavāyāś ca tathaiva madhukasya ca / sukhodakena sekāṃś ca satataṃ tasya kārayet* // 1043 // rodato yadi bālasya
11 kāsaḥ śvāso 'pi vā bhavet* / antardaśāhajātasya yūṣaṃ karkaṭakasya ca // 1044 // lavaṇaṃ pippalīyuktaṃ tathā saṃbūkaśuktikā /

II. Fol. 31: Bower manuscript
[The physician] should frequently administer one pill to the child. / In cases of diarrhea in children, the physician should administer the pill // 1011
combined with rice water along with honey; / or combined with the juice of parūṣaka along with sugar and honey. // 1012
To a child who is vomiting, the physician should administer the pill / combined with the juice of guḍūcī together with sugar and honey; // 1013
or he should administer it with the clear water from a baked clod of earth / combined with sugar and honey; thereby he becomes comfortable. // 1014
In dysentery of children, the physician should administer the pill / with a decoction of the five barks, or with rice-gruel water, // 1015
combined with sugar and honey, or with the blood of a hare, / or with the blood of a blackbuck or deer mixed with honey. // 1016
In upward movement of wind in children, the physician should administer the pill / combined with jaggery water, or with juice of the three myrobalans. // 1017
In mucus diarrhea of children, the physician should administer the pill / combined with whey, or with tamarind juice. // 1018
In gravel, stone, urinary retention, and in one suffering from urinary disorder, / the physician should administer the pill with honey or with the clear supernatant of liquor. // 1019
The physician should administer it to children with well-prepared fermented liquor; / through this he obtains relief, as is the statement of Kāśyapa. // 1020
Thereby a worm residing in the belly is swiftly / expelled; in head diseases it pacifies, and vomiting is also relieved. // 1021
For one whose worm has entered the rectum, he should apply the pill as an ointment; / through this he obtains ease, as is the statement of Kāśyapa. // 1022
In unknown diseases, the physician should administer the pill / combined with warm water; it is a destroyer of all diseases. // 1023
Having carefully examined, the skilled physician should perform various procedures, / having assessed the strength and weakness of children, as well as the season and time. // 1024
The physician should apply the fivefold procedure to wet-nurses: / purgation, vomiting, and likewise unctuous enema. // 1025
In severe griping pain in children, the physician should administer the pill / combined with boar dung and with rice-washings; // 1026
the healer should make them drink it combined with sugar and honey; / having drunk it, he becomes comfortable, as is the statement of Kāśyapa. // 1027
In hiccup, asthma, and coughs, the physician should administer the pill / combined with citron or with fragrant sauvarcala salt. // 1028
To one troubled by worms, the physician should administer the pill / combined with pomegranate water, or with honey, or with the clear supernatant of liquor; // 1029
likewise head evacuations, linctuses, and seasonings; / and let this food be eaten: barley gruel, a light meal. // 1030
In jaundice and anemia, and likewise of swellings, / the physician should administer the pill combined with a decoction of pīlu. // 1031
In diphtheria, or dry palate, in goitre and uvular swelling, / he should give the pill powdered and rub it on the gums; // 1032
teeth erupt with ease and the edema subsides; / through this his diseases are pacified and he attains health. // 1033
In ringworm, skin disease, leukoderma, scabies, and eczema, / and in diseases located in the skin, the physician should administer the pill. // 1034
The powder of kampillaka and the powder of the pill / having ground with mustard oil, he should smear him with that; // 1035
he should be sprinkled with comfortably warm cow's urine, or with cutch-tree extract, / or with a decoction of neem; through this he becomes comfortable. // 1036
Whether it is the Chāyā or Pūtanā seizure, or whatever seizure from above, / having mixed the pill with goat's urine, he should administer it to him; // 1037
or he should smear it on when the pill is ground into a paste; / thus all his very severe seizures subside. // 1038
In flank pain of children, the physician should administer the pill / combined with horsegram soup, or combined with meat broth. // 1039
When the wet-nurse's body is purified, the severe humours subside; / strength and complexion quickly arise for the children. // 1040
Kāśyapa's pill. // If a child starts with fright or cries continually, / he should make him lick the three myrobalans together with long pepper, with honey and clarified butter. // 1041
On whose limbs, however, discolored circular patches are seen, / he should plaster him with the ten roots well ground and mixed with ghee; // 1042
and with pastes of punarnavā and likewise of liquorice, / and he should continually make him take showers with warm water. // 1043
If in a crying child there should be cough or also asthma, / born within ten days: soup of crab, // 1044
salt combined with long pepper, as well as snail shell.