The Bower Manuscript 26

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II. Fol. 25: Bower manuscript
r1 Having weighed equal weights of these, tied them into a bundle, and then into this [...] having washed [...] gruel [...] // 806 // [...]
2 of radishes, curds, ghee, sesame oil, and likewise of rice, / if one drinks even a measured amount of this gruel, it pacifies the roaming winds situated in the belly. // 807 // Goat's barley, black cumin, ginger, with plumbago, caraway [...]
3 parts, / fried in ghee and mixed with a portion of salt: this superior gruel is called Kalyāṇikā. // 808 // It makes a ruined duodenum stimulated; it pacifies bile humour, phlegm humour, and wind humour; / it cures piles,
4 and destroys [enlarged] spleen, abdominal swellings, and severe jaundice. // 809 // Fennel, zedoary, bael, costus, plumbago, sweet flag, / viḍa salt and sauvarcala salt, ginger with long pepper, // 810
5 a pala of salt, pomegranate, tumbaru, / coriander, and cumin—one should make these of equal parts. // 811 // Having fried the rice grains in two oils, the physician should prepare a gruel; / it cures pain in the female organ, upward movement of wind, and dysuria. // 812
6 As many vāta-born diseases as there are, it restrains them all. / This gruel was declared
7 by the two Aśvins, the best among physicians. // 813 // The three gruels of the Aśvins. / The recipe for gruels. / Of sugarcane juice, vidārī, emblic myrobalan, ghee, milk, black gram, meat, honey,
8 and with liquorice, / prastha measures should be taken individually; but the meat-juice, weighed, is equal to the meat. // 814 // And five palas of liquorice, and a prastha measure of husked black gram: / this is the Sarasvatī ghee for a royal sage desiring a son. // 815
9 A prastha measure of emblic myrobalan juice, a prastha measure of sugarcane juice, / a prastha measure of goat's milk, and also a prastha measure of milk, // 816
10 a prastha measure of vidārī juice, and a prastha measure of ghee should be cooked. When cooled, one should add a prastha measure of honey / and twenty-five [palas] of sugar, // 817
11 and black pepper and long pepper, [each] a kuḍava measure, washed and powdered. / This is vitalising, strengthening, and an excellent aphrodisiac. // 818 // One should cook ghee containing asparagus within it in tenfold milk; // 819
12 mixed with sugar, long pepper, and honey, it is an excellent aphrodisiac. // 819 // Juice of small caltrop, clarified butter, and two milks—of cow and goat—, / an outstretched palm measure [each], combined with honey: this recipe is endowed with twenty-fold potency. // 820 // Vidārī,
13 and cowhage, and likewise emblic myrobalan, / camel-thorn along with [...],
v1 should be ground with milk. // 821 // [...] fried in that ghee, cooled, and sprinkled with honey; / having eaten it, an emaciated man may regain virility. // 822 // [...]
2 powder with five parts of sugar, and likewise honey and clarified butter. // 823 // From this, a man whose sexual power has been destroyed should eat an akṣa measure; / taking a diet devoid of sour and pungent tastes, he should avoid forbidden sex. // 824 // In an āḍhaka measure of water, five palas
3 of cowhage and the five roots; / in that decoction, having added one and a half [prasthas] of milk, one should put the powders. // 825 // There should be a prastha measure of sugar, and a prastha measure of honey and clarified butter; / with wheat flour one should fashion balls of a pala measure. // 826
4 Having eaten one of these, a man approaches intercourse sixty times; / a man becomes beloved to passionate women; it is said to be the supreme aphrodisiac. // 827 // With the broth of sparrows, unspotted, clean sesame seeds, / as many of which steeped [in it] as one eats, so many times
5 does one engage in intercourse. // 828 // Wheat cooked in milk and cowhage fruits, / cooled and smeared with honey and ghee, eaten, one should drink the milk of a cow that has calved once. // 829 // Through the use of this, he attains virility for a fortnight without harm. One should cook black gram,
6 washed, with a decoction of caltrop and milk. // 830 // Then one should eat a bael-sized lump with honey and clarified butter, / and then drink milk with sugar in the evening, // 831
7 if a man desires to approach a hundred women in a single day. / Vidārī fried in milk with clarified butter and honey, // 832
8 having eaten it cooled, according to his desire, he approaches intercourse sixty times. / There should be a powder of vidārī, steeped in its own juice, // 833
9 mixed with honey and clarified butter; having eaten it, he would possess ten-fold potency. / Likewise, powders of emblic myrobalan steeped in its own juice, // 834
10 combined with ghee and honey, / having eaten it, he would possess a hundred-fold potency. / Likewise, ashwagandha roots, shoots, and fruits, // 835
11 drunk with milk during the day, make twenty-fold [potency] at night. / Adhyaṇḍā, sparrows, clarified butter, and cowhage fruits: // 836
12 a foot-unguent should be applied, [and he remains] a bull as long as he does not touch the earth. / Having stripped a sparrow of its feathers, one should have it stung by red ants; // 837
13 ghee cooked with that is praised as a foot-unguent. / Powders of vidārī and black gram, likewise red rice, // 838
14 combined with boar's fat and sparrow-egg juice, / and salt should be added properly, one should fry a round cake in ghee. // 839 // Then, having eaten a palmful, he may approach a hundred women.