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Fol. 3: Bower manuscript r1 śatapuṣpā devadāru māṃsīṃ śaileyakaṃ vacām\* / candanaṃ tagaraṃ kuṣṭam elām aṃśumatīm api // 40 // eteṣāṃ kārṣikān bhāgāṃs tasmiṃs taile vipācayet\* / 2 asya tailasya siddhasya śṛṇu vīryam ataḥ param\* // 41 // paṅgūnāṃ vaḍavānāñ ca kubjānāṃ vāmanaiḥ saha / samāsena ca bhagnānāṃ bhagnāsthīnāṃ tathaiva ca // 42 // vātagulmaiś 3 ca hṛcchūlaiḥ pārśvaśūlaiś ca dāruṇaiḥ / kāsaiḥ śvāsaiḥ plihair gulmair jalodarabhagandaraiḥ // 43 // kāmalāpāṇḍurogaiś ca kṣayakṣīṇahataprabhaiḥ / 4 ekāṅgaṃ kṣīyate yasya gatir yasya ca durbalā // 44 // kṣīṇendriyāś ca ye kecij jarājarjaritāś ca ye / uccaiḥ śṛṇvanti ye kecid ye ca lallā bhavanty 5 api // 45 // mandamedhāś ca ye loke śrutaṃ yeṣāṃ ca naśyati / savināyakā narā ye ca nārīṇām apriyāś ca ye // 46 // vātikā vṛṣaṇā yeṣām 6 antravṛddhiś ca dāruṇā / nārīṇāṃ caiva yā bandhyā kākabandhyā ca yā bhavet\* // 47 // sthitārttavā ca yā nārī tathā naṣṭārttavā ca yā / garbhaṃ na labhate yā ca bhagnagarbhā ca yā 7 bhavet\* // 48 // yonīśūlena yā bandhyā tathaiva ca parisravā / dadrūkiṭibhakuṣṭhāni maṇḍalāni vicarcikā // 49 // yāvantāḥ śleṣmikā rogā vātikāḥ paittikāś ca ye / 8 pūtikaṃ ca mukhaṃ yasya mukhe duṣṭavraṇaś ca ye // 50 // sarveṣām eva rogāṇām etad āhuḥ prasādhanam\* / nasyaṃ pānam athābhyaṃgas tv anuvāsanam eva vā // 51 // lehanaṃ ca v1 prayoktavyam āyur vṛddhikaraṃ nṛṇām\* / siddhārthaṃ nāma nāmnā tu nārāyaṇavinirmitam\* // 52 // varuṇakaśākaṃ chāgalamathitena siddhaṃ godhūm ādyaṃ bhuṃjīta {O} // 53 // x x x x ^ 2 mūlāni maricāni sitāni ca / gavāṃ mūtreṇa piṣṭāni śvitrasyodvartanaṃ param\* {O} // 54 // guggulumaricaviḍaṃgaiḥ sarṣapakāsīsamustasarjarasaiḥ / śrīveṣṭakālagandhair manaḥśilātutthakaṃpilyaiḥ // 55 // 3 ubhayaharidrāsahitais tailavimiśraiḥ sthitair dinakarāgnau / ebhir liptaṃ kuṣṭhaṃ vraṇāś ca duṣṭāḥ samaṃ yānti {O} // 56 // dantītrivṛdviḍaṃgānāṃ pratyekaṃ palapañcakam\* / 4 mustāpalāni trīṇi syur harītakyāḥ palaṃ bhavet\* // 57 // kākodumbarikāmūlapaladvitayam eva ca / snuhākṣīreṇa badhnīyād aṣṭau daśa ca modakān\* // 58 // daśame daśame 5 divase prāśnīyād ekamodakam\* / jīrṇe cāpi piben maṇḍaṃ dvitīye ca vilepikām\* // 59 // paṃcarātreṇa kāmāptaṃ sarvakuṣṭhavināśanāḥ {O} // 60 // 6 x x prasiddhā modakāḥ {O} // dhātryakṣapathyā saviḍaṃgavahnir āruṣkarāvalgujabhṛṃgalohaiḥ / kramapravṛddhais tilatailamagnaiḥ sarvāṇi 7 kuṣṭhāni nihanti lehāt\* // 61 // akākolīne 'pi udvartayet\* {O} // 62 // karavīrakendravāruṇilāṃgalamūlāḥ samāḥ saguggulukāḥ / gṛhadhūmārdhāṃśayutā yuktvā vastāmbunā 8 x x // 63 // badarapramāṇaguḍikāḥ kṛtvā śuṣkā bhagandare vivṛte / pratidinam anu tad diśataḥ pranaśyati bhagandaraṃ na cirāt\* // {O} // 61 // punarnavaguḍūcināgaram atheṣṭakāpāthakaṃ ^ \_ ^ 9 vaṭapatranāḍapiḍakodbhave dehinam\* / bhagandaravināśanaṃ vimalatoyapiṣṭaṃ viduḥ vadanti bhiṣajottamaiḥ satatam eva nirdhāritam\* // {O} 65 // > III. Fol. 3: Bower manuscript > 1 Dill, Himalayan cedar, spikenard, bitumen, sweet flag, / sandalwood, tagara, saussurea root, cardamom, and also salaparni— // 40 > portions of one karṣa of each of these should be cooked in that sesame oil. / Hear, moreover, the potency of this prepared sesame oil: // 41 > It is \[recommended\] for the lame, mares, and the hunchbacked along with dwarfs, / and briefly for the fractured and those with broken bones; // 42 > and for wind-gulma, heart-pains, and violent flank-pains; / coughs, dyspnea, splenomegaly, abdominal swelling, ascites, and fistula-in-ano; // 43 > and jaundice, anemia, and those whose complexion is ruined and depleted by consumption; / for one whose limb is wasting away, and whose gait is weak; // 44 > and whoever has weakened sense-organs, and those who are worn out by old age; / whoever hears loudly, and those who lisp; // 45 > and those in the world who are dull-witted, and whose learning perishes; / and men possessed by Vināyaka, and those disliked by women; // 46 > and those whose testicles are affected by the wind humour, and who suffer violent inguinal hernia; / and also for women who are barren, or who bear only one child; // 47 > and the woman whose menstruation is retained, and also whose menstruation has ceased; / and she who does not conceive, or whose pregnancy miscarries; // 48 > and she who is barren due to vaginal pain, and likewise \[due to\] discharges; / ringworm, kiṭibha-skin disease, circle-lesions, and eczema; // 49 > as many phlegm-humour diseases, wind-humour diseases, and bile-humour diseases as there are; / and whose mouth is foul-smelling, and whatever corrupt ulcers are in the mouth. // 50 > They say this is the cure for all diseases. / It should be employed as an errhine, a drink, an ointment, or an unctuous enema, // 51 > and as an electuary, promoting long life for men. / By name, it is indeed called Siddhārtha, formulated by Nārāyaṇa. // 52 > One should eat the vegetable varuṇaka cooked with goat's buttermilk, beginning with wheat. // 53 > \[…\] roots, black pepper, and white mustard / crushed with cow's urine is the supreme rubbing application for vitiligo. // 54 > With bdellium, black pepper, viḍaṅga, mustard, iron sulphate, and resin of shorea; / turpentine, aloe, realgar, blue vitriol, and kampillaka; // 55 > together with both kinds of turmeric, blended with sesame oil, placed under the heat of the sun— / smeared with these, skin disease and corrupt ulcers subside. // 56 > Five palas each of dantī, trivṛt, and viḍaṅga, / three palas of nut-grass, and one pala of chebulic myrobalan; // 57 > and two palas of roots of kākodumbarikā; / one should bind eighteen sweets with the milky juice of snuhī. // 58 > On every tenth day, one should consume one sweet; / and when it is digested, one should drink supernatant rice gruel, and on the second, thick rice gruel. // 59 > In five nights, desire is attained, destroying all skin diseases. // 60 > \[…\] well-known sweets. // Emblic myrobalan, belleric myrobalan, chebulic myrobalan with viḍaṅga, plumbago, marking-nut, bākucī, bhṛṅgarāja, and iron, / increased in successive \[proportions\], submerged in sesame oil, eradicates all / skin diseases through an electuary. // 61 > One should rub it on, even where there is no kākolī. // 62 > Equal parts of roots of oleander, bitter apple, and lāṅgalī, with bdellium, / accompanied by half a part of chimney soot, mixed with the urine of a he-goat \[…\] // 63 > Having made dried pills the size of a jujube berry, upon an open fistula-in-ano / applying that every day, the fistula-in-ano soon disappears. // 64 > Punarnavā, guḍūcī, dry ginger, then brick, pāṭhā, \[…\] / on the arising of a fistula boil like a banyan leaf in a person, / crushed with pure water, physicians know it to destroy fistula-in-ano; it is said to have been constantly verified by the best physicians. // 65 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.35) - [Next: 37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.37) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.36) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.36) · Pramāṇa