The Bower Manuscript 35

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III. Fol. 2: Bower manuscript
r1 viḍaṃgasāraṃ khadirasya cārdhāt samā viḍaṃgena ca _ ^ _ x // 20 // _ _ ^ _ _ ^ ^ _ ^ _ x
2 ṛtūsthitaṃ dve kalaśe viśoṣya / sarpirmadhubhyāṃ sthaviro liheta ^ _ ^ _ vat prava _ ^ _ x // 21 // _ _ ^ _ _ ^ ^ _
3 hamānaḥ śvāsābhibhūtaś capalāgrahastaḥ / praśīrṇadanto vikalendriyo 'pi jīrṇābhibhūto ^ ^ _ ^ _ // 22 // _ _ ^
4 yukto 'bhirataś ca dharme / sarpiḥpayobhyāṃ hitam annam aśnaṃs tāruṇyasaurūpya guṇodayasthaḥ // 23 // _ _ ^ _ _ ^ ^ _ ^
5 hāno rasāśano mudgarasāśnaś ca / _ _ ^ gātrāvayavo 'pi kuṣṭī kuṣṭhaṃ ^ _ _ ^ ^ _ ^ _ x // 24 // x x x x x ^ pāṭhānāṃ
6 tejovatyās tathaiva ca / pippalīnāñ ca mūlasya bhāgān kuryāc catuṣpalān* // 25 // x x x x ^ _ _ x x x x x x ^ _ ^ x /
7 x .itāyāḥ pravāḍānāṃ mālatīkaravīrayoḥ // 26 // tvak ca sapta palāśasya tathā śākoṭakasya ca / x x x x x ^ _ _ x x x x x
8 nidhāvayet* // 27 // agninā caiva yuktena samyak kurvīta sādhanam* / caturbhāgāvaśiṣṭaṃ tu athainam avatārayet* // 28 // x x x x ^ _ _ x x x x x ^ _
v1 ^ _ m* / bhaved ativiṣāyās tu tulyā kaṭukarohiṇī // 29 // pippalīnāñ ca kuḍavaṃ viḍaṃgānāṃ tathaiva ca / kuṭajasya ca _ _ x x x x x ^ _ ^ x // 30 // x x
2 x x vayoś cātra dadyād dve dve pale dhṛte / kṣārasya yāvaśūkasya svarjikāyās tathaiva ca // 31 // anena ca ka _ _ x x x x x ^ _ x /
3 kṣārābhyāṃ lavaṇābhyāṃ ca paced vaidyo ghṛtāḍhakam* // 32 // karṣojīrṇe tu pātavyo viṣṭabdher x ^ _ ^ x / x x x x ^ _ _ x
4 sarve śāmyante dehinām* // 33 // raktapittāśrayān vyādhīn gulmāṃś caiṣa pṛthag vidhān* / x x x x x ^ _ _ x x x x x ^ _ ^ x // 34 //
5 snigdhaṃ bhuṃjīta cātyarthaṃ khāden māṃsaṃ ca pīvaram* / atyagnipratighātārthaṃ kāṃkṣa x x ^ _ ^ x // 35 // x x x x ^ _
6 n vyādhīn nihanyāt parikīrtitān* / etad agnighṛtaṃ nāma ātreyavihitaṃ pureti {O} // 36 // śatāvarī cāṃśumati pūtikā bṛhati dvayam* /
7 gandharvasya ca mūlāni mūlaṃ sahacarasya ca // 37 // agnimanthasya bilvasya śvadamṣṭrāsapunarnavā / eṣāṃ daśapalān bhāgān
8 jaladroṇe vipācayet* // 38 // śatāvarīrasaprasthe kṣīraprasthacatuṣṭayam* / pādāvaśeṣe pūte ca garbhe cainaṃ samācaret* // 39 //

III. Fol. 2: Bower manuscript
viḍaṅga seeds, and from half of khadira, and equal to the viḍaṅga [...] // 20 // [...] / having left it for a season and dried it in two vessels, / an aged man should lick it with clarified butter and honey, like [...] // 21 // [...] panting, overcome by asthma, seized by trembling, / even with fallen teeth, impaired sense organs, and decrepitude, [...] // 22 // [...] endowed [...], delighting in virtue, / eating wholesome food with clarified butter and milk, standing at the dawn of youth, good form, and virtuous qualities, // 23 // [...] eating meat broth, and eating mung-bean broth, / even a leper whose bodily limbs are [...] leprosy [...] // 24 // [...] of pāṭhā, / and likewise of tejovatī, / and of long pepper root, one should take parts of four pala measures each; // 25 // [...] / [...] of shoots of [...] mālatī and karavīra, // 26 // and the bark of seven-leaf tree, palāśa, and likewise of śākoṭaka; / [...] one should pour [...]; // 27 // and one should carry out the preparation properly with an appropriate fire; / when reduced to a fourth part, one should then take it down. // 28 // [...] / Kaṭukarohiṇī should be equal to the ativiṣā; // 29 // a kuḍava measure of long pepper, and likewise of viḍaṅga, / and of kuṭaja [...] // 30 // [...] and one should add here two pala measures of each of the two, / of barley-grain caustic alkali and likewise of svarjikā; // 31 // and by this [...] / with the two alkalis and the two salts, the physician should cook an āḍhaka measure of ghee. // 32 // When one karṣa is digested, it should be drunk; from obstruction [...] / all [...] of embodied beings are pacified. // 33 // Diseases located in blood and bile humour, and various kinds of abdominal swellings, / [...] // 34 // and one should eat very unctuous food and consume fat meat, / to counter excess digestive fire, [...] desiring [...]. // 35 // It destroys the [...] diseases that have been described. / This is called 'Fire Ghee', ordained by Ātreya of old. // 36 // Śatāvarī, aṃśumatī, pūtikā, the two bṛhatīs, / and the roots of gandharva-plant, and the root of sahacara, // 37 // agnimantha, bilva, śvadamṣṭrā, together with punarnavā: / having taken ten pala measures of each of these, one should boil them in a droṇa measure of water. // 38 // In one prastha measure of śatāvarī juice, four prastha measures of milk: / when reduced to a fourth and strained, one should also introduce the paste into it. // 39