The Bower Manuscript 28

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II. Fol. 27: Bower manuscript
[… and sixteen. // 876
Liquorice and sugar made into a wick-collyrium [are for] sudden eye trouble. Rock salt, the two turmerics, the three myrobalans, the three pungents, // 877
together with liquorice: an excellent destroyer of timira cataract. // 878a
Jasmine, conch shell, realgar, liquorice, cuttlefish bone, madder, pepper, collyrium in equal parts, prācīnikā, long pepper,
and one should add an equal part, doubled, of fine red ochre: this most wholesome wick-collyrium, destroyer of all diseases, is proclaimed for eye disorders. // 879
Prācīnikā, pāṭhā, prapauṇḍarīka, liquorice, sugar, realgar,
conch shell, long pepper seeds, rasāñjana, antimony collyrium, // 880
brass flower, clearing-nut fruit along with rock salt,
cuttlefish bone, pepper in equal parts, [and] honey: // 881
one should store the pills dried in the shade well-hidden.
This wick-collyrium, which generates eyelashes for blepharitis sufferers, is for all patients with eye disease. // 882
There should be one part of srotāñjana collyrium, and one part of cuttlefish bone,
one part of white pepper, and also one part of long pepper; // 883
combined with one part of rock salt, highly revered by Nimi, wholesome and noble,
this very fine powder, capable of removing timira cataract, is fit for noble folk. // 884
Red ochre, sugar, and puṣpāñjana collyrium,
applied with honey: this is an extract-application for eye diseases. // 885
Three parts of chebulic myrobalan, and one part should be of dry ginger;
this wick-collyrium ground in water is beneficial in all eye disorders. // 886
White pepper, cuttlefish bone, white sugar, center of a conch shell, copper dust, clearing-nut fruit, iron filings, garmuḍī root, cardamom, and rock salt,
and also picrorhiza, long pepper corns: grinding [these], one should make a wick-collyrium with water.
Destroying timira cataract, membrane films, itching, and glass-like blindness, and banishing night blindness, this wick-collyrium is auspicious. // 887
Aloe wood, sandalwood, cassia leaf, and saffron with stamens,
Indian nightshade, white pepper, nut grass, and blue lotus: // 888
one should grind these equal parts with women's milk;
in the absence of women's milk, however, one should grind them with goat's milk. // 889
It curbs itching, timira cataract, eye discharge, red streaks,
night blindness, and likewise other eye diseases. // 890
[…] one should boil oleander with sesame oil;
this formulation, for nasal medication and inunction, is proven to destroy greying of hair. // 891
Prapauṇḍarīka […] // 892
[…] ground, this paste destroys greying of hair.
Gaurocana, black nightshade, dill, and sesame: // 893
smeared with this, the hairs become like collyrium.
Indigo and rock salt, and long pepper ground with water: // 894
smeared with this, the hairs become like collyrium.
And beforehand one should wash the head with chebulic myrobalan and emblic myrobalan. // 895
Taking Indian globe thistle, one should grind it together with indigo;
with that applied warm to the head, greying of hair will not occur. // 896
Blue vitriol, nut grass, copperas, turtle's bile, iron filings,
dantī, sahadevā, and a portion of bhṛṅgarāja: // 897
prepared with oil of belleric myrobalan, this destroys greying of hair;
one should perform inunction constantly: greying will not occur. // 898
A prastha measure of bhṛṅgarāja juice, likewise of milk, and a pala measure of liquorice,
boiled in a kuḍava measure of oil, would make even a crane black. // 899
It destroys wrinkles and greying of hair of twelve years in seven nights,
and of a hundred years in a month, by the administration of nasal medication. // 900
Two pala measures of roots of rāmataruṇī, and a pala measure of liquorice,
half a pala measure of lodh tree bark, and ten pala measures of belleric myrobalan oil, // 901
boiled by the sun in a vessel of black iron for ten days:
one should perform nasal medication; the greying hairs become bee-coloured. // 902
A prastha measure of emblic myrobalan juice, a prastha measure of clarified butter, and a pala measure of liquorice:
having assembled all this, the physician should boil it over a gentle fire. // 903
It would make the blind un-blind, and likewise the greying un-greying, when firmly administered;
this nasal treatment restores even lost vision. // 904
And one should take equal parts of the three myrobalans, indigo, blue lotuses,
each in the amount of an akṣa measure, and fruit of piṇḍāraka, // 905
collyrium, long pepper root, and leaf of sahacara;
a decoction of rose-apple should be made, and earth from the root of a rose-apple tree. // 906