The Bower Manuscript 27

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II. Fol. 26: Bower manuscript
[…] with honey and clarified butter. // 840
With milk as an after-drink, in summer too, one may engage in sexual intercourse ten [times]. […] // 841
[…] having lotus-root juice as the eighth [ingredient]; grinding it with goat's milk, one should cook a pastry in ghee. // 842
In the measure of a thumb-joint, […with] half the impetus […] // 843
After drinking clear spirit scum after it, a man becomes sexually potent like a bull.
One who, satiated with cock's meat, after copulation drinks milk, // 844
For him there is neither flaccidity of the penis nor loss of semen.
One who, having eaten ṣaṣṭika rice rich in ghee with black gram broth, // 845
Drinks milk, stays awake the entire night full of vigor.
Sugar, honey, milk, ghee, the three pungents, [and] fresh butter, // 846
Boiled together into one: he should indeed drink this milk pleasing to Indra. // 847a
The formulation of Uśanas, pleasing to Indra.
In the Nāvanītaka, an epitome of proven recipes, according to the doctrine of various teachers,
The aphrodisiac formulations are concluded.
Four parts of conch-shell, half that of realgar;
Half of realgar of black pepper, and half of black pepper of rock salt: // 848
This Vaidehika collyrium-stick, increasing […], destroys diseases:
Alūna, cataract-film, kāca-blindness, impurit[ies], and red streaks. // 849
One should grind conch-shell in cow's milk, realgar in goat's milk,
Black pepper in ewe's milk, and rock salt with human milk. // 850
One [part] black pepper, two clearing-nut, three sugar, with four cuttlefish bone,
With five calx of brass: a collyrium-stick in all eye diseases. // 851
Sugar, red ochre, honey, and also calx of brass:
This prime extract-paste removes all eye pain. // 852
One should rub an iron vessel with curd mixed with salt;
One should apply it to an eye afflicted with sharp pain: it will quickly become healthy. // 853
Rock salt, bṛhatī, copper [ash], picrorhiza, conch-shell, long pepper;
The [collyrium named] Kokilā destroys dry eye disease, white opacity, and blepharitis. // 854
With long peppers and turmerics one should repeatedly rub a mirror;
One should apply it to an eye afflicted with sharp pain: it will quickly become healthy. // 855
One should reduce the dry wood of the cīḍā [tree] into fine powders;
One should steep that powder with he-goat's urine for three nights. // 856
This excellent powder-collyrium destroys blepharitis and worms. // 857a
With saffron juice it destroys dark vision;
With water, dry eye disease;
With honey, recent [affections];
And with milk, those that have suddenly arisen. // 858
[…] and the destruction of dark vision.
Fat of a black cobra and juice of emblic myrobalan fruits: // 859
With these two combined with honey, a blind man sees within three days.
Khus-khus, tagara, rock salt, cyperus, // 860
Cinnamon bark, and red ochre: ground, they constitute a viḍālaka eye-plaster.
Realgar along with sesame oil and goat's milk is a collyrium. // 861
Red ochre with he-goat's urine, long pepper with bull's urine:
Ground in equal parts, one should then fashion a collyrium-stick. // 862
This should be applied in blepharitis cases, and when one's tears do not cease.
Realgar, collyrium, and white peppercorns: // 863
All in equal measure, a powder that destroys dark vision.
The three myrobalans with turmeric, equal parts, one should boil in water; // 864
When mixed with milk in a shallow dish, irrigation with it relieves pain.
A wise physician should employ this supreme, proven formulation // 865
In all eye diseases, especially those accompanied by sharp pain.
Leaves of punarnavā, bṛhatī, kaṇṭakārī, // 866
Gokhru, and castor: one should decoct them with goat's milk.
This is an excellent eye-drop, along with milk, honey, and lukewarm water. // 867
A copper vessel smeared with ghee, fumigated with goat's horn,
[And] rubbed with woman's milk: an irrigation that relieves sharp pain. // 868
Prapauṇḍarīka, madhuka, lichen, and honey:
Having properly crushed them, one should bind them in a clean strainer cloth. // 869
Sprinkled plentifully with water and squeezed again and again,
It makes a noble eye-drop for eyes with intense sharp pain. // 870
Root bark of the two bṛhatīs, long pepper, dry ginger,
Rock salt, combined with copper [ash]: one should grind them with milk. // 871
Having ground them smooth, one should smear a copper vessel;
For seven nights or eight days, grinding and grinding, one should smear it. // 872
One should then apply it as a collyrium: it removes the affliction of pain in the eyes,
And forcibly turns back edema and red lines. // 873
It also draws out alūna, cataract-film, kāca-blindness, and dark vision.
Of rasāñjana […] realgar […] // 874
[…] and one should add kuśa grass root;
Combined with honey, this destroys discharge and itching, // 875
Alūna and dark vision, destroying all eye diseases. […]