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Fol. 4: Bower manuscript r1 dadhimastunā vā // 82 // kāsaṃ śvāsaṃ pāṇḍurogaṃ cirasthaṃ plīhaṃ cograṃ śūlam ānāham ugram\* / hikkāṃ hṛdrogaṃ jāḍyatāṃ ṣṭīvanatvam āmātisāraṃ ca saśūlagulmam\* // 83 // viṣūcikām alasakam agni mārdavaṃ 2 pravāhikāṃ gudaparitāpam arśasām\* / śamenti tā vidhivad ihottamaṃ tamaḥ prayojitā hy api khalu gharmavāriṇā // 84 // {X} āśvinī mātuluṃgaguḍikā ślo 5 {X} pāṭhākaliṃgayavamustakarohiṇīnāṃ 3 bhāgāḥ sahātiviṣayā dharaṇāni kuryāt\* / kuryāc caturthadharaṇena samāṃ haridrāṃ mutreṇa goḥ saha pibed atha cūrṇam etat\* // 85 // kuṣṭhāṇi ṣaṭtriṃśatikāni 4 nihanti dehe sthānāni naśayati saptamahākṣayasya / gulmāṃś ca nāśayati māsakṛtaḥ prayogaḥ sarvānnikasya ghṛtamāṃsaparasya jantor iti // 86 // {X} gulma cūrṇam āśvinam\* {X} 5 pippalī saviḍakṣārās tathaiva ca suvarcikā / śṛṃgaveraṃ samaricaṃ saindhavaṃ lavaṇaṃ tathā // 87 // yavānīm atha dantīñ ca tṛvṛtā vatsakaṃ tathā / sauvarcalam ajājīṃ ca triphalāñ cātra dāpayet\* // 88 // 6 samabhāgāni sarvāṇi sūkṣmacūrṇāni kārayet\* / cūrṇayogo bhavec chreṣṭho gomūtreṇa subhāvitaḥ // 89 // etat snigdhaśarīrasya snigdhāhārasya dehinaḥ / 7 viḍālapadamātraṃ tu dadyād uṣṇena vāriṇā // 90 // parijīrṇe tatas tasmin yadā tu tṛṣito bhavet\* / ghṛtagandhām avakṣārīn dāḍimasya rasena vai // 91 // pāyayīta bhiṣak chreṣṭhas tadā saṃpadyate 8 sukhī / tasyāṃ tu parijīrṇāyām āhārārthī yadā bhavet\* // 92 // tadā lohitaśālīnāṃ susvinnaṃ mṛducodanam\* / bhojayej jāṃgalarasair vyaktāmblalavaṇīkṛtaiḥ // 93 // viṣūcikāyā arśassu vikārā 9 vividhāś ca ye / durbhukte cāpy ajīrṇe ca tathā pāṇḍvāmayeṣu ca // 94 // vātagulmeṣu ca tathā grahaṇīdoṣiṇaś ca ye / etad yogaṃ prayuñcānaḥ sukham āpnoti mānavaḥ // 95 // {O} māgadhaṃ cūrṇam\* ṛ 10 ubhe haridre maricaṃ padmaṃ kuṣṭhaṃ sapippalī / karpāsamūlaṃ māṃsī ca svarjyāḥ kṣāram athāṣṭamam\* // 96 // etāni samabhāgāni dṛṣadāyāṃ prapīṣayet\* / kolāsthimātrāṃ guḍikāṃ chāyāṃ 11 pariśoṣayet\* // 97 // tatas tu guḍikām ekāṃ dadyād uṣṇena vāriṇā / v1 x x x x praśamyante rogajātāni tāñ cchṛṇu // 98 // ajīrṇakam udāvartaṃ mūtrakṛcchraṃ galagraham\* / ānāhaṃ vātagulmaṃ ca yac ca lūtāviṣaṃ bhavet\* // 99 // sarvaṃ dūṣīviṣaṃ hanti x x vṛścikadaṣṭakam\* / 2 mūḍhavātam apasmāraṃ śāṇḍhyaṃ śāṇḍhyapumāṃś ca yaḥ // 100 // bhūtagraham athonmādaṃ mūḍhagarbhāś ca yās striyaḥ / daṃṣṭrāmūlaviṣārtheṣu pānam ālepanaṃ tathā // 101 // {O} haridrācūrṇam āśvinaṃ ślo 6 {O} ṣaḍī vacā 3 tāmalakī pippalī viśvabheṣajam\* / guḍaṃ ghṛtena bharjitvā kārayed guḍikāṃ bhiṣak\* // 102 // uroghātaṃ pratiśyāyaṃ pārśvahṛtkukṣivedanām\* / śuṣkakāsaṃ ca balavat sarvam etena sādhayed iti // 103 // ṛ 4 guḍikā gauḍikā ślo 2 {O} dve maricaśate kārye māgadhyā pippalīśataṃ caikam\* / palam api ca śarkarāyāḥ syān nāgarakas tathā mukhyaḥ // 104 // syāt tintiḍīkakarṣo dāḍimakarṣaḥ śucir vadarakarṣaḥ / 5 deyo varāṃgakarṣas tathārdhakarṣas tv ajājīnām\* // 105 // amblātakasya karṣaḥ karṣārdhaṃ dhyānyakasya vicitasya / sauvarcalakarṣayutaś cūrṇāriṣṭaḥ paramasiddhaḥ // 106 // eṣa samūlān arśāñ cchamayed 6 grahaṇīñ ca dīpayati śāntām\* / hṛdrogapāṇḍuroge nihanti kāsaṃ saha śvāsam iti // 107 // {O} cūrṇāriṣṭaḥ nāvanītake cūrṇayogās samāptāḥ {X} 7 prathamo 'ddhāyas\[adhyāya\] samāptaḥ idaṃ amṛtarasaprakhyaṃ rasāyanaṃ balavivardhanaṃ nṛṇām\* / amṛtaprāśaṃ nāmnā sarpir udāraṃ pravakṣyāmi // 108 // āmalakarasaprasthaḥ 8 kṣīravidāryās tathā bhavet prasthaḥ / prasthaś cekṣurasasya hi gṛṣṭīkṣīrasya tadvac ca // 109 // prasthaṃ prasthaṃ sudhṛtaṃ ghṛtasya dadyāc ca śāradasyātra / auṣadhyaś ca supiṣṭāḥ 9 imāḥ pradeyāḥ pramāṇena // 110 // ṛṣabhakam ṛddhiṃ madhukaṃ vidārigandhāṃ tathā payasyāñ ca / sahadevāṃ sānantāṃ madhūlikāṃ viśvadevāñ ca // 111 // dve mede 'rṣyaproktāṃ 10 śatāvarīṃ mudgamāṣaparṇyau ca / śrāvaṇy athātmaguptāṃ vīrāñ ca palārdhikān bhāgān\* // 112 // mṛdvīkāṃ karjūraṃ vadarāṇy api kuḍavasaṃmitāṃ kuryāt\* / akṣoḍatindukānāṃ nikocakānāñ ca 11 bhāgārdham\* // 113 // > II. Fol. 4: Bower manuscript > \[or\] with curd-whey. // 82 > Cough, asthma, long-standing anemia, severe splenic enlargement, colic, severe abdominal swelling, > hiccup, heart disease, sluggishness, spitting, diarrhea with undigested matter, and gulma accompanied by pain, // 83 > choleraic diarrhea, sluggish digestion, weak digestive fire, > dysentery, burning in the rectum, \[and complications\] of hemorrhoids— > these it properly alleviates, being the most supreme \[remedy\] here in this world, especially when administered indeed with warm water. // 84 > {X} The Aśvin Citron-Pill, 5 verses. {X} > Of pāṭhā, kalinga seeds, yavā, mustā, and rohīṇī, > shares together with ativiṣā one should make in dharaṇa measures; > one should add haridrā equal to the fourth dharaṇa, and then drink this powder with cow's urine. // 85 > It destroys the thirty-six types of dermatosis > in the body, and eradicates the places of seven severe wasting conditions; > and when practiced for a month, it eliminates gulma > in a person who consumes all kinds of food and is devoted to ghee and meat. // 86 > {X} The Aśvin Powder for Gulma. {X} > Pippalī along with viḍa salt and alkali, and likewise natron, > ginger together with black pepper, and rock salt, // 87 > then yavānī, dantī, trivṛt, and vatsaka, > and sauvarcala salt, cumin, and the three myrobalans should be added here. // 88 > One should make all equal parts into a fine powder; > this powder formulation will be superior when well infused with cow's urine. // 89 > To a person whose body has been unctuated and who has had an unctuous meal, > one should administer only the measure of a cat's footprint with warm water. // 90 > Then, when that has been fully digested, whenever he should become thirsty, > with the smell of ghee, free of alkali, with pomegranate juice indeed, // 91 > the best physician should give him to drink, and then he becomes > comfortable. Then, when that \[juice\] has been fully digested, whenever he should desire food, // 92 > then well-steamed, soft boiled red rice > he should cause him to eat with the meat juices of arid animals, prepared with distinct sour and salty \[tastes\]. // 93 > In choleraic diarrhea, in hemorrhoids, and whatever diverse disorders \[there may be\], > and in bad food and indigestion, and likewise in anemia, > and likewise in wind-gulma, and in those who suffer from digestive-tract disorders, > a person using this formulation attains well-being. // 95 > {O} The Māgadha Powder. > Both kinds of turmeric, black pepper, lotus, kuṣṭha together with pippalī, > cotton-plant root, māṃsī, and svarjikā alkali as the eighth. // 96 > These equal parts one should grind on a stone; > one should make a pill of the size of a jujube-stone and dry it in the shade. // 97 > Then one should administer one pill with warm water; > \[…\] are pacified, listen to those varieties of disease: // 98 > indigestion, upward movement of wind, dysuria, throat-spasm, > abdominal swelling, and wind-gulma, and whatever spider-poison there may be. // 99 > It destroys all chronic latent poison, \[…\] scorpion sting, > paralyzed wind, epilepsy, barrenness and a man who is impotent, // 100 > demonic possession, madness, and women whose fetus is obstructed; > as a drink and an ointment for the purposes of fang and root poisons. // 101 > {O} The Aśvin Haridrā Powder, 6 verses. {O} > Ṣaḍī, vacā, > tāmalakī, pippalī, and ginger; > having fried jaggery with ghee, the physician should make a pill. // 102 > Chest-injury, catarrh, pain in the flanks, heart, and abdomen, > and severe dry cough: everything one can cure with this. // 103 > Pill with Jaggery, 2 verses. {O} > Two hundred \[grains\] of black pepper should be taken, and one hundred of māgadhī pippalī, > and a pala measure of sugar, and fine ginger should be the principal \[ingredient\]. // 104 > There should be a karṣa measure of tamarind, a clean karṣa measure of pomegranate, and a karṣa measure of jujube; > a karṣa measure of cinnamon should be added, and half a karṣa measure of cumin, // 105 > a karṣa measure of hog-plum, half a karṣa measure of picked coriander, > and with a karṣa measure of sauvarcala salt: the powder-ariṣṭa is supremely proven. // 106 > This alleviates hemorrhoids at their roots and enkindles the digestive tract that has waned; > it destroys heart disease and anemia, \[and\] cough along with asthma. // 107 > {O} The Powder-Ariṣṭa. The powder formulations in the Nāvanītaka are completed. {X} > The first chapter is completed. > This rasāyana resembling the juice of ambrosia, which increases the strength of men, > an excellent ghee named Amṛtaprāśa, I shall proclaim: // 108 > A prastha measure of emblic myrobalan juice, > and likewise there should be a prastha measure of kṣīravidārī, > and indeed a prastha measure of sugarcane juice, and in the same way of the milk of a cow with her first calf. // 109 > One should also add a full prastha measure of autumn ghee here; > and these medicinal herbs, well ground, should be added in \[prescribed\] measure: // 110 > ṛṣabhaka, ṛddhi, licorice, vidārigandhā, and payasyā, > sahadevā, anantā, madhūlikā, and viśvadevā, // 111 > the two medās, ṛṣyaprokta, śatāvarī, mudgaparṇī and māṣaparṇī, > śrāvaṇī, then ātmaguptā, and vīrā, in parts of half a pala measure; // 112 > raisins, dates, and also jujubes one should make measured to a kuḍava measure; > and of walnuts, tinduka fruits, and nikocaka nuts, half that share. // 113 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.5) - [Next: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.7) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.6) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.6) · Pramāṇa