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Fol. 7: Bower manuscript r1 syāt tryūṣaṇaṃ satriphalaṃ sapāṭhāṃ sacitrakaṃ syād atha devadāru / rāsnā ṣaḍīn tāmalakīṃ vidārīn nidigdhikāṃ gokṣurakaṃ sthirāṃ ca // 182 // syād ātmaguptām atha śārivāñ ca medāñ ca dadyād dhi śatāvarīñ ca / 2 etāni sarvāṇi samāni kṛtvā ghṛtaṃ pacet kṣīracaturguṇena // 188 // kāsajvarārśāṃsi śirobhitāpaṃ tathaiva bhaktānabhinandanaṃ ca / hṛdrogavātaṣṭhilavātagulme plīhe ca kṣīṇakṣatayoś 3 ca dadyāt\* // 184 // arśānsi kṣubdhān kṣubhitaṃ ca vātaṃ nihanti sarvān vidhivat prayukta iti // 185a // {X} mahātryūṣaṇan nāma ślo 2 pā 1 {X} mudgaparṇīṃ māṣaparṇīm ṛddhiṃ medāñ ca saṃharet\* / 4 mahāsahāṃ kṣudrasahāṃ tathā kākolim eva ca // 186 // abhītaparṇīṃ haṃsapadīṃ ṣaḍīṃ kacchuphalāni ca / phalgu karjūramṛdvīkām āmram āmalakāni ca // 187 // bilvāgnimanthaṃ syonākaṃ kārṣmaryaṃ 5 pāṭalāṃ balām\* / parṇyaś catasraḥ pippalyaḥ śvadaṃṣṭrāṃ bṛhatīdvayam // 188 // śṛṃgīṃ tāmalakīṃ drākṣāṃ jīvantīṃ puṣkarāgurum\* / abhayām amṛtām ṛddhiṃ 6 jīvakarṣabhakau ṣaḍim\* // 189 // mustāṃ punarnavāṃ medām elāṃ candanam utpalam\* / vidārīṃ vṛṣamūlāni kākolīṃ kākanāsikām\* // 190 // eṣāṃ palonmitān bhāgāñ cchatāny 7 āmalakasya ca / paṃca dadyāt tadaikadhyaṃ jaladroṇe vipācayet\* // 191 // jñātvā gatarasān etān auṣadhān atha tadrasaḥ / tadāmalakam uddhṛtya niṣkulaṃ 8 tailasarpiṣoḥ // 192 // paladvādaśake bṛṣṭvā deyā matsyaṇḍikapalāḥ / paṃcāśat paripūtāyā lehavat sādhu sādhayet\* // 193 // ṣaṭpalaṃ madhunaś cātra 9 siddhaśīte pradāpayet\* / catuṣpalaṃ tukākṣīryāḥ pippalyā dvipalaṃ tathā // 194 // palam ekaṃ vidadhyāc ca tvagelāpatrakesarān\* / ity ayaṃ cyvanaprāśaḥ param uktaṃ rasāyanam\* // 195 // 10 kāsaśvāsaharaś caiva viśeṣeṇopadiśyate / kṣīṇakṣatānāṃ vṛddhānāṃ bālānāṃ cāṅgavardhanam\* // 196 // svarakṣayam urorogaṃ hṛdrogaṃ vātaśoṇitam\* / 11 pipāsāṃ mūtraśukrasthān doṣāś cāpy apakarṣati // 197 // asya mātrāṃ prayuṃjīta yoparuddhaṃ na bhojanam\* v1 asya prayogāc cyavanaḥ suvṛddhi 'bhūt punar yuvā // 198 // medhāṃ smṛtiṃ kāntim anāmayatvam āyuṣprakarṣaṃ balam indriyāṇām / strīṣu prakarṣam agnivṛddhiṃ 2 varṇaprasādaṃ pavanānulomyam\* // 199 // rasāyanasyāsya naraḥ prayogāl labheta jīrṇo 'pi kuṭipraveśāt\* / jarākṛtaṃ rūpam athāsya pūrvaṃ bibharti rūpaṃ navayauvanānām iti // 200 // {X} 3 cyavanaprāśaṃ ghṛtaṃ ślo 15 {X} harītakīṃ trikaṭukaṃ vacāṃ kaṭukarohiṇīm\* / sauvarcalaṃ yavakṣāro viḍaṃgā citrakaṃ tathā // 201 // akṣapramāṇair etais tu ghṛtaprasthaṃ vipācayet\* / 4 tat siddhaṃ srāvayitvātha pāyayīta yathābalam\* // 202 // vātagulmaṃ plihaṃ kāsaṃ sahikkāṃ sakrimīn api / daśāṃgo nāśayaty etān rogān vajra 5 ivāsurān iti // 203 // {X} daśāṃgaṃ nāma ghṛtaṃ ślo 3 {X} citrakaṃ triphalāṃ caiva bṛhatīṃ kaṇṭakārikām\* / snuhākṣīraṃ viḍaṃgāni ghṛtaṃ navanam ucyate // 204 // 6 ekaikasya tu karṣeṇa ghṛtasya kuḍavaṃ pacet\* / caturguṇena toyena pācayen mṛdunāgninā // 205 // asya kāle piben mātrām ardhakarṣasamanvitām\* / uṣṇodakaṃ cānupibed 7 alpatvāt tasya sarpiṣaḥ // 206 // viriktaṃ tu yavāgūṃ syāt sarpiṣā parimarditām\* / rasena jāṅgalānāṃ vā bhojanaṃ dāpayed bhiṣak\* // 207 // vātagulmam udāvarttaṃ vardhmam 8 arśaḥ plihaṃ tathā / grahaṇīn dīpayen mandāṃ kuṣṭhadoṣāṃś ca nāśayet\* // 208 // nārācakam iti khyātaṃ sarpir nārācasannibham\* / bhiṣajā saṃniyoktavyaṃ nārācam iva śatrave iti // 209 // {X} 9 nārācakaṃ nāma ghṛtaṃ ślo 6 {X} mūlakānāṃ purāṇānāṃ palāny aṣṭau samānayet\* / tāni sthālyāñ jaladroṇe śanair mṛdvagninā pacet\* // 210 // bilvamātrapramāṇena piṣṭvā cainaṃ 10 nidhāpayet\* / paṃca dāḍimasārāṇāṃ palāny atra prapīṣayet\* // 21 // pippalīśṛṃgaverābhyāṃ dadyād atra palaṃ palam\* / citrakamūlasya supiṣṭasyātra dāpayet\* // 212 // 11 ghṛtasya ca palāny aṣṭau navasyātra pradāpayet\* / dadhnaś cātra sujātasya samā mātrā vidhīyate // 213 // etat sarvaṃ samānīya > II. Fol. 7: Bower manuscript > There should be the three pungents, with the three myrobalans, with pāṭhā, with citraka, then there should be devadāru, / rāsnā, śaṭī, tāmalakī, vidārī, nidigdhikā, gokṣuraka, and sthirā; // 182 > there should be ātmaguptā, and then śārivā, and one should indeed add medā and śatāvarī. > Taking all these in equal parts, one should cook ghee with four times as much milk. // 188 > One should give it for cough, fever, piles, headache, and likewise for aversion to food, / for heart disease, vātāṣṭhīlā, vātagulma, spleen \[disease\], and to those emaciated by chest wounds; // 184 > administered according to rule, it destroys all piles, agitated \[diseases\], and agitated wind humour. // 185a // Mahātryūṣaṇa by name: 2 verses and 1 quarter. One should gather mudgaparṇī, māṣaparṇī, ṛddhi, and medā, > mahāsahā, kṣudrasahā, and likewise kākolī, // 186 > abhītaparṇī, haṃsapadī, śaṭī, and fruits of kacchū, / phalgu, dates, dried grapes, mango, and emblic myrobalans, // 187 > bilva, agnimantha, śyonāka, kārṣmarya, pāṭalā, balā, / the four parṇīs, long pepper, śvadaṃṣṭrā, the two bṛhatīs, // 188 > śṛṅgī, tāmalakī, drākṣā, jīvantī, puṣkaramūla, aguru, / abhayā, amṛtā, ṛddhi, jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, śaṭī, // 189 > mustā, punarnavā, medā, cardamom, sandalwood, utpala, / vidārī, roots of vṛṣa, kākolī, kākanāsikā: // 190 > one pala-measured share of each of these, and five hundred \[fruits\] of emblic myrobalan / one should add; one should boil them together in a droṇa of water. // 191 > Knowing these medicinal herbs to have lost their essence, then having removed that essence and those emblic myrobalans, / deseeded, fried in twelve palas of sesame oil and clarified butter, // 192 > fifty palas of purified sugar candy are to be added; one should prepare it properly like an electuary. // 193 > When it is prepared and cooled, one should add six palas of honey to it, / four palas of tukākṣīrī, and likewise two palas of long pepper; // 194 > and one should add one pala of cinnamon bark, cardamom, leaves, and filament. / Thus this Cyavanaprāśa is proclaimed as the supreme rejuvenating tonic. // 195 > It is specially taught as destroying cough and asthma, / and promoting body growth in those emaciated by chest wounds, the old, and children; // 196 > it removes loss of voice, chest disease, heart disease, vātaśoṇita, / thirst, and the humours settled in the urine and semen. // 197 > One should administer a dose of it that does not hinder food. / Through its use Cyavana, though very old, became young again; // 198 > \[it brings\] intellect, memory, lustre, freedom from sickness, extension of life, strength of the faculties, / excellence among women, increase of digestive fire, clarity of complexion, and the natural downward movement of the wind humour. // 199 > From the use of this rejuvenating tonic, even an aged man, by entering a hut, / would shed his former form wrought by old age and bear the form of fresh youths. // 200 // Cyavanaprāśa clarified butter: 15 verses. Chebulic myrobalan, the three pungents, vacā, kaṭukarohiṇī, / sauvarcala salt, yavakṣāra, viḍaṅga, and likewise citraka: // 201 > with an akṣa measure of each of these, one should cook a prastha measure of ghee. / Having then strained it once cooked, one should have it drunk according to strength. // 202 > This Daśāṅga destroys vātagulma, spleen \[disease\], cough, together with hiccup and worms, / just as Indra's thunderbolt destroys the asuras. // 203 // Daśāṅga by name clarified butter: 3 verses. Citraka and the three myrobalans, bṛhatī, kaṇṭakārikā, / milky juice of snuhī, viḍaṅga: the fresh ghee is spoken of; // 204 > with a karṣa of each, one should cook a kuḍava measure of ghee; / one should boil it over a gentle fire with four times as much water. // 205 > At the proper time, one should drink a dose of this measuring half a karṣa; / and one should drink hot water after it, on account of the small quantity of that clarified butter. // 206 > When purged, one should have barley gruel mixed with clarified butter, / or the physician should give food with meat-broth of wild animals. // 207 > It stimulates weak digestion and cures vātagulma, upward movement of wind, scrotal enlargement, / piles, and spleen \[disease\], and destroys leprosy humours. // 208 > Celebrated as Nārācaka, clarified butter like an iron arrow, / it should be applied by the physician just like an iron arrow against an enemy. // 209 // Nārācaka by name clarified butter: 6 verses. One should take eight palas of mature radishes; / one should boil them in a pot with a droṇa of water slowly over a gentle fire. // 210 > Having ground it to the measure of a bilva fruit, one should put it in; / here one should grind five palas of the pulp of pomegranates. // 211 > One should add here one pala each of long pepper and ginger, / and here one should add well-ground root of citraka. // 212 > And here one should add eight palas of fresh ghee; / and an equal dose of well-formed curd is prescribed here. // 213 // Having brought together all this, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.8) - [Next: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.10) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.9) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Carakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.6.1.1.5) — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.9) · Pramāṇa