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III. Fol. 1: Bower manuscript
r1 x x x x x x x citrakadantīkaravīraguṃjalāṃgalakī / bṛhatī suvarṇapuṣpī pīlur viśvāhvayaṃ nahikā // 1 // kāsīsaṃ x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
2 x x x x / karṣāṃśikaiḥ supiṣṭair dadyāt kṣīrārkakuḍavaṃ ca // 2 // etair dravyair miśraṃ tailaprasthaṃ caturguṇe toye / mūtra x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x // 3 //
3 x x su dadrukiṭibhe kuṣṭheṣv atha katrimālāsu / nāḍīvraṇaduṣṭavraṇaviṣadūṣitagaṇḍamālāsu // 4 // {O} x x x x x x x x x x x x x x kadambaś
4 ca / eraṇḍakuṣṭhapāṭhā vidaṅgasu x x x nirguṇḍī // 5 // śrīveṣṭakakaṃpilyakasuradārumanaśśilāviśālā ca / x x x x x x x x x x x x
5 n mahādrumāc caiva // 6 // ardhākṣabhāgamātraiḥ siddhaṃ tailaṃ nihanti arśāṃsi / agnir vā śastraṃ vā kṣāraṃ vā śoṣayet tailam* // 7 // x x x x x x x x x x x x x
6 vraṇāḥ santi / dadruṃ śvitraṃ pāmāṃ vicarcikāṃ maṇḍalāni sidhmāni // 8 // yonībhagandarāṇi ca vināśayed vajrakaṃ tailam* // {O} // 9a // x x x x utkvāthya
7 bhallātakaśatatrayam* / pādaśeṣe jale tasmin x x x x ^ _ ^ x // 10 //
v1 viṣām ativiṣāñ caiva peṣyāṇi palaśaḥ kṣipet* / ekamāsaṃ
2 pibet tailaṃ mātrayā śaktyupetayā // 11 // tasmiṃ jīrṇe tu āhāram upapattyā samācaret* / aṣṭādaśa hanyād
3 dhīro buddhaḥ kleśagaṇān iva // 12 // māṇibhadreṇa datto 'yaṃ yoga eṣa mumūrṣave / kāruṇyād ārdracittena bhikṣave kuṣṭhanāśanaḥ // 13 // x x x x ^ _ _ x
4 viśīrṇāṃgulināsikāḥ / etena suprādurjāto grahamukta ivoḍurāṭ* {O} // 14 // trāyamāṇāṃ viśālaṃ ca kāṭukārohiṇīṃ ^ _ / x x x x x ^ _ _ x
5 tvagelaṃ ca samāṃśikāḥ // 15 // nahikākasīyuktān sūkṣmacūrṇāni kārayet* / khadirāsanasārāṇāṃ kuḍava x ^ _ ^ _ // 16 // x x x x ^ _ _ x x
6 x x vipācayet* / pibet karṣeṇa saṃsrijya cūrṇasyādyāc ca bhojanam* // 17 // jīrṇe sarpir vimiśreṇa mudgasūpena ṣaṣṭikām* // 18a // x x x x 18 x x x x x x x
7 x x x x x x ndriyasya yogā ayogena tu vāhyamānā grīṣmābhitaptās turagā yathaiveti {O} // 19 // ayaḥpalārdhe triphalā ^ _ x ^ _ ^ _ _ ^ ^ _ ^ _ x /

III. Fol. 1: Bower manuscript
[...] citraka, dantī, karavīra, guñjā, lāṅgalakī, / bṛhatī, suvarṇapuṣpī, pīlu, viśvāhvayā, nahikā, // 1 // green vitriol [...] / with one karṣa of each thoroughly ground, one should also add one kuḍava measure of arkakṣīra. // 2 // Combined with these substances, one prastha measure of sesame oil in four times as much water, cow's urine [...] // 3 // [...] in ringworm, kiṭibha, and leprosy, and then in artificial poisonings, / in sinus ulcers, corrupted wounds, and poison-vitiated cervical lymphadenitis, // 4 // [...] and kadamba, / castor, kuṣṭha, pāṭhā, viḍaṅga, [...] nirguṇḍī, // 5 // śrīveṣṭaka, kampilyaka, devadāru, realgar, viśālā, / and [...] from the great tree; // 6 // prepared with portions of half an akṣa each, the sesame oil destroys piles; / either fire, an instrument, or caustic alkali: this sesame oil dries [them] up. // 7 // [...] there are wounds; / ringworm, leukoderma, scabies, eczema, annular eruptions, pityriasis, // 8 // and fistula-in-ano of the vaginal canal, vajraka oil destroys. // 9a // [...] having boiled / three hundred bhallātaka fruits, / when that water is reduced to a quarter, [...] // 10 // one should throw in aconite and ativiṣā, to be ground, one pala measure each. / For one month, one should drink the oil in an amount suited to one's capacity. // 11 // When it has digested, one should prudently partake of food; / the resolute man will destroy eighteen [kinds of leprosy], as the Buddha [destroys] the hosts of defilements. // 12 // Given by Māṇibhadra, this formulation, which destroys leprosy, / was [imparted] out of compassion with a tender heart to a monk who was about to die. // 13 // [...] whose fingers and toes and nose were rotting away; / through this he emerged completely anew, like the lord of stars freed from an eclipse! // 14 // Trāyamāṇā, viśālā, kaṭukārohiṇī, [...] / [...] and cinnamon and cardamom in equal parts; // 15 // mixed with nahikākāsī, one should reduce them to a fine powder; / a kuḍava measure each of heartwood of khadira and asana [...] // 16 // [...] one should decoct. / One should drink [it] mixed with a karṣa measure of the powder, and take food: // 17 // when it is digested, sixty-day rice with mung-bean soup mixed with clarified butter. // 18a // [...] // 18 // [...] / of the sense-faculties, but formulations administered wrongly [act] just like horses tormented by the summer heat. // 19 // With half a pala measure of iron, the three myrobalans [...]