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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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.7) - [Next: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.8) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [Cakradatta (Cikitsāsaṅgraha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.cakradatta.29.63) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit - [Gadanigraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.gadanigraha.3.193) — Soḍhala, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.8) · Pramāṇa