The Bower Manuscript 1.7

1.7

where a liquid is not specified, water is understood there. // 58
And among curds, urine, milk, clarified butter, hair, horns, and hooves,
one should use all from cows; among honeys, that produced by the honeybee. // 59
One should cook pungent oil with pomegranate peel;
the ears, vulva, lips, and penis all enlarge by means of this. // 60
Half a pala of root of plumbago, and likewise of turpeth and sātala,
[...] of danti roots, one karṣa each, // 61
and of long pepper, rock salt, and likewise asafetida and amlavetasa,
and twenty prime chebulic myrobalans [...] one should cook. // 62
From eight palas of jaggery, one should properly make ten pills;
one should eat one of them every tenth day. // 63
Afterward, one should drink hot water for the digestion of the humours;
then, at the end of the purgation, having bathed, one should consume wholesome food. // 64
Here there is never any restriction of speech, body, or mind;
this purgative, prepared by Agasti, is suited for kings in all seasons. // 65
It crushes old age and death, destroys all diseases,
is aphrodisiac, rejuvenating, and promotes intellect and health. // 66
It must never be given to one who is not a son, nor to one who is not a pupil;
it must not be given to an enemy of the king, nor to others who practice evil. // 67
The two pañcamūlas, licorice, guḍūcī, rāsnā, aśvagandhā, devadāru, pāṭhā,
cassia bark, the two balas, tagara, sesame seeds, mūrvā, horse gram, spikenard, musta, // 68
punarnavā, bamboo peel, jīvantī, cardamom, agallochum, jīvaka,
castor root, sprouts of suphala, kuraṇḍa flowers, and dry ginger: // 69
boiled with water using two or three [of these], goat's, cow's, or sheep's milk,
with a little rock salt, lukewarm—this eye drops is for eye disease caused by wind humour. // 70
Tree turmeric, blue water lily, padmaka, tuṅga, yāṣā, medā, lotus stalk,