The Bower Manuscript 8

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II. Fol. 6: Bower manuscript
r1 viḍaṃgā citrako dantī vyoṣavairiṇapippalī / aśvamūtrī tṛvṛtkṣīrīṃ nīlīā saindhavaṃ vacām* // 148 // ghṛtaprasthaṃ paced ebhir dadhnāṃ tu dviguṇīkṛtam* / tat siddhaṃ
2 pāyayed yuktyā śvāsārśogulmanāśanam* // 149 // pippalīpippalīmūlacavyacitrakanāgaraiḥ / palikaiḥ sayavakṣārair ghṛtaprasthaṃ vipācayet* // 150 // kṣīraprasthena tat sarpir
3 hanti gulmaṃ kaphātmakam* / grahaṇīpāṇḍurogaghnaṃ plīhakāsajvarāpaham* // 151 // {O} ṣaṭpalaṃ nāma ghṛtam* {O} ślo 4 // tryūṣaṇaṃ triphalā
4 mustā viḍaṃgā cavyacitrakaiḥ / kalkair etair ghṛtaṃ siddhaṃ sakṣīraṃ vātagulmanut* // 152 // {O} tryūṣaṇaṃ {O} vṛśaṃ saśākhaṃ saṃkuṭya paced aṣṭaguṇe jale / śiṣṭe 'ṣṭabhāge tasyaiva puṣpaṃ kalkaṃ ca
5 dāpayet* // 158 // tena siddhaṃ ghṛtaṃ kṣaudrasaṃyuktaṃ pittagulmanut* / raktapittajvaraśvāsakāsahṛdroganāśanam* // 154 // {O} vāśāghṛtaṃ ślo 2 {O} nāgaraṃ pippalīmūlaṃ citrako hastipippalī /
6 śvadaṃṣṭrā pippalī dhānyaṃ bilvaṃ pāṭhāṃ yavānikām* // 155 // cāṃgerīsvarase sarpir etaiḥ kalkair vipācayet* / caturguṇena dadhnā ca tad ghṛtaṃ kaphavātanut* // 156 // arśāṃsi grahaṇīdoṣaṃ
7 mūtrakṛcchraṃ pravāhikām* / gudabhraṃśārttim ānāhaṃ ghṛtam etad vyapohati // 157 // {X} cāṃgerīghṛtam* {X} ślo 6 // caturguṇaṃ rasaṃ kṛtvā cāṅgeryāḥ suparisrutam* / tasyaiva
8 kalkenāloḍya bilvamātreṇa buddhimān* // 158 // ghṛtaprasthaṃ paced etac chanair mṛdvagninā bhiṣak* / arśovyādhir bhaved yasya pītvaiva sa sukhī bhavet* // 159 // {X} cāṃgerīghṛtam aparam* {X} ślo 2 // nidigdhikāyāḥ
9 svarasaṃ grāhayed yantrapīḍitam* / caturguṇe rase tasmin ghṛtaprasthaṃ vipācayet* // 160 // garbhaṃ dadyāt trikaṭukaṃ rāsnāṃ gokṣurakaṃ balām* / paṃca kāsān idaṃ sarpiḥ pītaṃ sadyo vyapohati // 161 // {X} kaṇṭakārikāghṛtaṃ
10 nāma ślo 2 {X} madhukasya palāny aṣṭau drākṣāyāḥ prastham eva ca / sārase tu jaladroṇe śanair mṛdvagninā pacet* // 162 // aṣṭabhāgāvaśeṣe tu ghṛtaprasthaṃ vipācayet* / tasmin siddhe ca pūte ca
11 śītībhūte ca dāpayet* // 163 // śarkarāyāḥ palāny aṣṭau prasthārdhaṃ mākṣikasya ca / etac choṇitapittīnāṃ kāsinām alparetasām* // 164 //
v1 kṣīṇānāṃ ca kṣatānāṃ ca prayojyaṃ samasaktukam* / {X} mṛdvīkāghṛtaṃ ślo 3 pā 1 {X} paṃcamūlam atho hrasvaṃ gulūcīṃ madhukaṃ balām* // 165 // palikāni jaladroṇe caturbhāgāvaśeṣite / tatkaṣāye tu saṃgṛhya
2 ghṛtaprasthaṃ vipācayet* // 166 // garbhaṃ ca jīvanīyānāṃ dadyāt kṣīraṃ caturguṇam* / vidāryāmalakānāṃ ca tathaivekṣurasasya ca // 167 // datvā ghṛtasamān bhāgān paceta mṛdunāgninā / rāsāyanikam ity etat peyaṃ sarpiḥ
3 kṣayāvaham* // 168 // hṛdrogakṣatakāsānāṃ jvarāṇāṃ ca vināśanam iti // {X} rasāyanikaṃ nāma ghṛtaṃ ślo 4 {X} śaramūlekṣumūlāni kāṇḍekṣūn ikṣuvālikām* // 169 // śatāvarīṃ payasyāñ ca vidārīṅ kaṇṭakārikām* /
4 jīvantīṃ jīvakaṃ medāṃ vīrām ṛṣabhakaṃ balām* // 170 // ṛddhiṃ gokṣurakaṃ rāsnām ātmaguptāṃ punarnavām* / eṣāṃ tripalikā bhāgā māṣāṇām āḍhakaṃ navam* // 171 // jaladroṇe vipaktavyam āḍhakaṃ cāvaśeṣayet* /
5 tatra peṣyāṇi madhukaṃ drākṣā phalgūni pippalīm* // 172 // ātmaguptāṃ madhukāni karjūrāṇi śatāvarīm* / vidāryāmalakekṣūṇāṃ rasāḥ syuś ca pṛthak pṛthak* // 173 // sarpiṣaś cāḍhakaṃ dadyāt kṣīradroṇaṃ ca tad bhiṣak* /
6 sādhayed ghṛtaśeṣaṃ ca supūtaṃ yojayet punaḥ // 174 // śarkarāyās tukākṣīryāś cūrṇaiḥ prasthonmitaiḥ pṛthak* / palikā guḍikāḥ kāryās tā yathāgniṃ prayojayet* // 175 //
7 eṣa vṛṣyaḥ paraṃ yogo vṛṅhaṇo balavardhanaḥ / anenāśva ivodīrṇo liṃgam arpayate balī // 176 // {X} śaramūlīyaṃ nāma ghṛtam* ślo 7 pā 1 {X} māyūraṃ veśavāraṃ tu
8 kuṭya toyārpaṇe pacet* / rāsnāyā daśamūlena balāyā madhukena ca // 177 // caturbhāgāvaśeṣeṇa ghṛtaprasthaṃ vipācayet* / caturguṇena payasā jīvanīyaiś ca peṣyakaiḥ // 178 //
9 māyūram etac chaṃsanti nāsye pāne ca mūrdhani / nāśanaṃ śīrṣarogāṇām arditasyārbudasya ca // 179 // karṇaśūlāni bādhiryaṃ manyāstaṃbhaṃ hanugraham* / pūtyāsyaṃ karṇanādatvaṃ
10 tāluśoṣopajihvikām* // 180 // rātryandhaṃ piṃgalākṣaṃ ca timiraṃ jalakācatām* / abhiṣyandam adhīmanthaṃ netrayoś cāpakarṣatīti // 181 // {X} māyūraṃ ghṛtaṃ ślo 7 pā {X}

II. Fol. 6: Bower manuscript
Viḍaṅga, citraka, dantī, the three pungents, airiṇapippalī, / aśvamūtrī, trivṛt, kṣīrī, nīlī, rock salt, and vacā: // 148
With these, one should cook a prastha measure of ghee with twice that amount of curd. / That, once prepared, one should administer judiciously; it destroys dyspnea, piles, and abdominal lumps. // 149
With long pepper, long pepper root, cavya, citraka, and dry ginger, / each a pala measure, along with barley alkali, one should cook a prastha measure of ghee // 150
with a prastha measure of milk. That clarified butter / destroys abdominal lump caused by phlegm humour, cures chronic diarrhea and jaundice, and removes splenomegaly, cough, and fever. // 151
[This is] the ghee called Ṣaṭpala. 4 verses. // The three pungents, the three myrobalans, / mustā, viḍaṅga, cavya, and citraka: / with pastes of these, ghee prepared with milk removes abdominal lumps caused by wind humour. // 152
[This is the ghee called] Tryūṣaṇa. // Having crushed vṛśa with its branches, one should boil it in eight times as much water; / when one eighth remains, one should add its flower and paste. // 158
Ghee prepared with this and combined with honey removes abdominal lumps caused by bile humour / and destroys internal hemorrhage, fever, dyspnea, cough, and heart disease. // 154
[This is] Vāsāghṛta. 2 verses. // Dry ginger, long pepper root, citraka, hastipippalī, / śvadaṃṣṭrā, long pepper, coriander, bilva, pāṭhā, and yavānikā: // 155
with these pastes, one should cook clarified butter in fresh juice of cāṅgerī / and four times as much curd. That ghee removes phlegm and wind humours; // 156
piles, chronic diarrhea disorder, / dysuria, dysentery, / distress from rectal prolapse, and abdominal distension, this ghee dispels. // 157
[This is] Cāṅgerīghṛta. 6 verses. // Taking four parts of well-strained juice of cāṅgerī, / the wise physician should stir it with paste of the same, equal [in weight] to a bilva fruit, // 158
and slowly cook this prastha measure of ghee over a gentle fire. / A person who has the disease of piles, upon merely drinking it, becomes comfortable. // 159
[This is] another Cāṅgerīghṛta. 2 verses. // One should obtain the fresh juice of nidigdhikā pressed out by an apparatus; / in four parts of that juice, one should cook a prastha measure of ghee. // 160
As the paste, one should add the three pungents, rāsnā, gokṣuraka, and balā. / This clarified butter, when drunk, immediately dispels the five kinds of cough. // 161
[This is] the one named Kaṇṭakārikāghṛta. 2 verses. // Eight pala measures of madhuka and a prastha measure of raisins / one should cook slowly over a gentle fire in an aqueous droṇa measure of water. // 162
When one eighth remains, one should cook a prastha measure of ghee in it; / when that is cooked, strained, / and cooled down, one should add // 163
eight pala measures of sugar and half a prastha measure of honey. / This is to be administered to those suffering from internal hemorrhage, those coughing, those with deficient semen, // 164
and those who are emaciated and wounded [in the chest], along with an equal amount of barley groats. / [This is] Mṛdvīkāghṛta. 3 verses, 1 quarter. // The minor group of five roots, guḍūcī, madhuka, and balā: // 165
one pala measure each, in a droṇa measure of water reduced to one-fourth. / Having taken that decoction, one should cook a prastha measure of ghee // 166
and add a paste of the vitalising herbs, four times as much milk, / and similarly of vidārī, emblic myrobalan, and sugarcane juice, // 167
having added portions equal to the ghee, one should cook it over a gentle fire. / This clarified butter, called 'Rejuvenator', should be drunk to remove wasting diseases; // 168
it destroys heart disease, cough from chest injury, and fevers. / [This is] the ghee called Rasāyanika. 4 verses. // Roots of reed, roots of sugarcane, stems of sugarcane, ikṣuvālikā, // 169
śatāvarī, payasyā, vidārī, kaṇṭakārikā, / jīvantī, jīvaka, medā, vīrā, ṛṣabhaka, balā, // 170
ṛddhi, gokṣuraka, rāsnā, ātmaguptā, and punarnavā: / three pala measures each of these, and one āḍhaka measure of fresh māṣa beans, // 171
should be boiled in a droṇa measure of water, and one should reduce it to an āḍhaka measure. / There, the substances to be ground are madhuka, raisins, phalgū fruits, long pepper, // 172
ātmaguptā, flowers of madhūka, dates, and śatāvarī; / and there should be the individual juices of vidārī, emblic myrobalan, and sugarcane. // 173
The physician should add an āḍhaka measure of clarified butter and a droṇa measure of milk; / he should cook it until only the ghee remains, and when well strained, combine it again // 174
with powders of sugar and bamboo manna, one prastha measure of each. / One should make pills of one pala measure each and administer them according to the digestive fire. // 175
This formulation is supremely aphrodisiac, nourishing, and strength-promoting; / by means of this, a strong man, excited like a stallion, applies his penis. // 176
[This is] the ghee called Śaramūlīya. 7 verses, 1 quarter. // Having pounded minced peacock meat, / one should cook it in an offering of water, along with rāsnā, daśamūla, balā, and madhuka. // 177
With that [decoction] reduced to one-fourth, four times as much milk, / and with the vitalising herbs as pastes, one should cook a prastha measure of ghee. // 178
They praise this peacock ghee for nasal administration, drinking, and application to the head; / it is the destroyer of head diseases, facial paralysis, and tumors; // 179
earaches, deafness, stiffness of the neck, lockjaw, / foul mouth, tinnitus, / dryness of the palate, uvular swelling, // 180
night blindness, yellowish eyes, cataracts, watery opacities of the eye, / conjunctivitis, and severe eye inflammation: it draws these out of the eyes. // 181
[This is] Māyūra ghee. 7 verses, [1] quarter.