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II. Fol. 5: Bower manuscript
r1 etat siddhaṃ jñātvā paripūtaṃ sthāpayec chubhe bhāṇḍe / śītībhūte dadyān madhunaḥ prasthaṃ supūtasya // 114 // ṣoḍaśa palāni dadyād vṛtāni sitaśarkarācūrṇasya / maricārdhapalaṃ dadyāt palaṃ ca sūkṣmailayā
2 deyam* // 115 // sūkṣmair etaiś cūrṇair avacūrṇya khajena manthayet prajñaḥ / tasya tu mātrāṃ matimān agni balaṃ prekṣya yuṃjīta // 116 // jīrṇe ca jāṅgalarasair bhiṣajā śālyodanaṃ pradātavyam* / aṃrtaprāśyaṃ
3 mukhyaṃ balavarṇavivardhanaṃ puṃsām* // 117 // kṣīṇakṣate prayojyaṃ vṛddheṣv atha karśiteṣu bāleṣu / tāmyatsu tathā śvasatāṃ prayojyam etac ca hikkāyām* // 118 // amṛtaṃ nāma vikhyātaṃ sarpir ātreyanirmitam iti //
4 {X} amṛtaprāśaṃ nāma ghṛtaṃ ślo 11 pā 1 {O} priyaṃguṃ tagaraṃ kuṣṭhaṃ dāḍimaṃ sailavālukam* // 119 // tālīsamedatriphalāṃ kesaraṃ bṛhatīdvayam* / nīlotpalaṃ devadāruṃ
5 candanaṃ dve ca śārive // 120 // dve haridre viḍaṅgā ca sumanākusumāni ca / dantīm aṃśumatīñ caiva māṃjiṣṭhā sālaparṇy api // 121 // akṣamātrair ghṛtaprasthaṃ pacet toye caturguṇe / etat kalyāṇakaṃ
6 nāma pānīye sarpiṣaṃ varam* // 122 // kāsaṃ śvāsaṃ pratiśyāyaṃ tṛtīyakacaturthakau / unmādakṣatavaisarpaṃ pramehān vātaśoṇitam* // 123 // hikkāṃ chardiṃ pāṇḍurogaṃ śvayathūn*
7 mūtranigraham* / retodoṣāś ca ye puṃsāṃ yonīdoṣāṃś ca yoṣitām* // 124 // bandhyā ca labhate garbhaṃ garān api ca śātayet* / cūrṇayogādhikāreṣu viṣasandūṣiteṣu ca // 126 // plīheṣv arśassu
8 gulmeṣu ghṛtam etad yathāmṛtam* / balavarṇakaraṃ caiva dīpanīyaṃ pracārakam* // 126 // alakṣmīm api nirhanyāt tiṣṭhaty etad ghṛtaṃ gṛhe // {X} ghṛtaṃ kalyāṇakaṃ nāma ślo 8 {X}
9 jīvakarṣabhakau vīrā kākanāsā mṛṇāly api // 127 // mudgaparṇīṃ māṣaparṇīm ṛddhiṃ medāñ ca saṃharet* / mahāsahāṃ kṣudrasahāṃ tathā kākoḍim eva ca // 128 // abhīruparṇīṃ haṃsapadīṃ ṣaḍīm*
10 kacchuphalāni ca / phalaṃ kharjūramṛdvīkām āmram āmalakāni ca //129 // pippalīṃ śṛṅgaveraṃ ca tathaiva guḍaśarkarām* / eteṣāṃ garbham ādadyāt kṣīraṃ ca saha sarpiṣā // 130 //
v1 tat tu siddhaṃ ca pūtaṃ ca pibed vyādhivināśanam* /
2 etad vātaṃ ca pittaṃ ca kṣata kāsaṃ ca nāśayet* // 131 // mahākalyāṇakaṃ sarpir bahurogavināśanam* / siddham ātreyanirdiṣṭaṃ agastyāya mahātmaneti {X} // 132 //
3 māhakalyāṇakaṃ ghṛtaṃ ślo 5 pā 1 {X} nimbaṃ paṭolaṃ dārvīn durālabhāṃ tiktarohiṇīn triphalām* / kuryād ardhapalāṃśāṃ parpaṭakaṃ trāyamāṇāṃ ca // 133 // salilāḍhakasiddhānāṃ rase 'ṣṭabhāgāvaśeṣite
4 dadyāt* / candanakirātatiktakapippalyas trāyamāṇāñ ca // 134 // mustā vatsakabījaṃ kalkīkṛtvārdhakārṣikān bhāgān* / navasarpiṣaś ca ṣaṭpalam etat siddhaṃ ghṛtaṃ peyam* // 135 // kuṣṭhajvaragulmārśograhaṇīpāṇḍvāmayaśvayathuhantṛvaisarpakiṭibhapāmākaṇḍūpadagaṇḍanut
5 siddham iti // 136 // {X} tiktakaṃ ghṛtaṃ ślo 4 {X} saptacchadaṃ prativiṣaṃ śamyākaṃ tiktarohiṇīṃ pāṭhāṃ / mustośīraṃ
6 triphalāṃ paṭolapicumandaparpaṭakau // 137 // dhanvayavāṣakacandanam upakulyāṃ padmakaṃ dvirajanīñ ca / ṣaḍgranthāṃ saviśālāṃ śatāvarīṃ śārive cobhe // 138 // vatsakabījaṃ vāśāṃ mūrvām amṛtāṃ
7 kirātatiktaṃ ca / kalkaṃ kuryān matimān yaṣṭihvāṃ trāyamāṇāñ ca // 139 // kalkasya caturbhāgaṃ jalam aṣṭaguṇaṃ raso 'mṛtaphalānām* / dviguṇo ghṛtāt pradeyas tat sarpiḥ pāyayet
8 siddham* // 140 // kuṣṭhāni vātapittapravalāny arsaṃsi raktavāhīni / vaisarparaktapittaṃ vātāsṛkpāṇḍurogaṃ ca // 141 // visphoṭakān sapāmām unmādaṃ kāmalāṃ krimiṃ kaṇḍūm* / hṛdrogagaṇḍapiḍakān asad
9 rajo gaṇḍamālāṃ ca // 142 // hanyād etat sadyaḥ pītaṃ kāle yathābalaṃ sarpiḥ / yogaśatair apy ajitaṃ mahādhikārān mahāsarpiḥ {X} // 143 // mahātiktakaṃ ślo 7 {X} ubhe haridre māñjiṣṭhā pāṭhā kaṭukarohiṇī /
10 citrako 'tha viḍaṃgā ca pippalī tṛvṛtā vacā // 144 // śārivā kuṣṭhamustailā madhukaṃ cākṣasaṃmitāḥ / dāpayec chaṃkhapuṣpīñ ca gavyaprastheṣu pañcasu // 145 // siddham etad ghṛtaṃ
11 pītvā balavān syād anāmayaḥ / prasannavarṇo medhāvī dyutimān strīṣu cākṣayaḥ // 146 // etena vāg viśuddhyati brahmādhītaṃ na naśyati ca bhūyaḥ / svaravarṇayoś ca jananaṃ garbhaṃ cādhatti bandhyānām* // 147 // pañcagavyaṃ 4

II. Fol. 5: Bower manuscript
Knowing this to be accomplished, one should strain it and place it in an auspicious vessel. / When it has cooled, one should add a prastha measure of well-strained honey. // 114
One should add sixteen pala measures of powdered white sugar, / half a pala measure of black pepper, and one pala measure of fine cardamom should be given. // 115
Having dusted it with these fine powders, the wise physician should churn it with a churning stick. / The prudent one should administer a dose of it, considering the strength of the digestive fire. // 116
And when it has digested, the physician should give rice prepared from winter rice with meat broth of arid-tract animals. / Amṛtaprāśa is supreme, increasing strength and complexion in men. // 117
It should be employed in phthisis and chest injury, in the elderly, in the emaciated, and in children; / it should also be employed in those fainting, those wheezing, and in hiccup. // 118
This clarified butter known as Amṛta was formulated by Ātreya.
Amṛtaprāśa clarified butter: 11 verses and 1 quarter-verse. Priyangu, tagara, costus, pomegranate, and elavāluka, // 119
tālīsa, medā, the three myrobalans, stamens, the two bṛhatīs, / blue lotus, devadāru, sandalwood, and the two types of śārivā, // 120
the two kinds of turmeric, viḍaṅga, jasmin flowers, / dantī, aṃśumatī, madder, and also śālaparṇī, // 121
measured in akṣa units each: one should cook a prastha measure of ghee in four times as much water. / This clarified butter named Kalyāṇaka is the best for drinking. // 122
It cures cough, dyspnoea, catarrh, tertian and quartan fevers, / insanity, chest-wound, erysipelas, urinary disorders, gout, // 123
hiccup, vomiting, anemia, edemas, / urinary retention, semen disorders in men, and disorders of the female genital tract in women. // 124
A barren woman conceives, and it also destroys artificial poisons; / in cases of powder-poison formulas and in those afflicted with poison, // 125
in spleen diseases, piles, and abdominal swellings, this ghee is like nectar. / It produces strength and complexion, kindles the digestive fire, and promotes wellness; // 126
it even dispels misfortune if this ghee is kept in the home. // The ghee named Kalyāṇaka: 8 verses.
Jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, vīrā, kākanāsā, and mṛṇālī, // 127
mudgaparṇī, māṣaparṇī, ṛddhi, and medā one should collect, / mahāsahā, kṣudrasahā, and likewise kākolī, // 128
abhīruparṇī, haṃsapadī, śaṭī, and fruits of the cowhage, / the fruit of date, raisins, mango, and emblic myrobalans, // 129
long pepper, ginger, and likewise raw sugar and sugar: / one should take a paste of these, and milk together with clarified butter. // 130
When it is cooked and strained, one should drink it to destroy disease; / this destroys wind humour, bile humour, chest injury, and cough. // 131
Mahākalyāṇaka clarified butter destroys many diseases; / it was accomplished and taught by the great-souled Ātreya to Agastya. // 132
Mahākalyāṇaka ghee: 5 verses and 1 quarter-verse. Neem, paṭola, tree-turmeric, durālabhā, bitter rohiṇī, the three myrobalans, / parpaṭaka, and trāyamāṇā—one should take half a pala measure of each; // 133
they are boiled in an āḍhaka measure of water, and when reduced to an eighth part of the liquid, / one should add red sandalwood, kirātatikta, long pepper, and trāyamāṇā, // 134
mustā, and vatsaka seeds, having made a paste in portions of half a karṣa measure; / and six pala measures of fresh clarified butter: this finished ghee should be drunk. // 135
It cures dermatoses, fever, abdominal swelling, piles, chronic bowel disease, anemia, and edema, / and dispels erysipelas, kitibha, scabies, itching, foot cracks, and swellings; it is proven. // 136
Tiktaka ghee: 4 verses. Saptacchada, prativiṣā, śamyāka, bitter rohiṇī, pāṭhā, / mustā, uśīra, the three myrobalans, paṭola, picumanda, parpaṭaka, // 137
dhanvayavāṣaka, sandalwood, upakulyā, padmaka, and the two kinds of turmeric, / ṣaḍgranthā, viśālā, śatāvarī, and both kinds of śārivā, // 138
vatsaka seeds, vāsā, mūrvā, amṛtā, / and kirātatikta: the wise physician should make a paste of these, with licorice and trāyamāṇā; // 139
one quarter-part of the paste, eight times the water, and juice of the emblic myrobalans / given twice the measure of the ghee: one should administer that cooked clarified butter. // 140
It immediately cures dermatoses marked by wind and bile humours, bleeding piles, / erysipelas, internal hemorrhage, gout, anemia, // 141
blisters along with scabies, insanity, jaundice, parasitic worms, itching, / heart disease, boils, carbuncles, irregular / menses, and scrofula, // 142
when this clarified butter is drunk at the proper time according to one's strength; / this great clarified butter conquers great clinical domains that were not conquered even by hundreds of remedies. // 143
Mahātiktaka: 7 verses. Both kinds of turmeric, madder, pāṭhā, bitter rohiṇī, / plumbago, then viḍaṅga, long pepper, trivṛt, calamus, // 144
śārivā, costus, mustā, cardamom, and licorice, measured an akṣa each, / and one should add śaṅkhapuṣpī to five prastha measures of the five bovine products. // 145
Having drunk this cooked ghee, one becomes strong and free from disease, / endowed with a clear complexion, intelligent, radiant, and tireless with women. // 146
By this the voice is purified, and the sacred knowledge one has studied is never lost again; / it produces voice and complexion, and implants the embryo in barren women. // 147
Pañcagavya: 4