The Bower Manuscript 33

English (machine translation) 33

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33.1

II. Fol. 32: Bower manuscript
or one should give that child [a medicine] properly prepared for children's longevity. // 1045
And for a feverish child, one should purify the mother's milk, / and prepare a decoction of [...] and [...] // 1046
uśīra, bhadramustā, and also trāyamāṇā, / as well as madhuka with paste of sandalwood, along with sugar. // 1047
And ghee prepared with the vitaliser drugs is beneficial as an anointing salve. / For an emaciated or withering child, [to promote] growth of the limbs, // 1048
I shall proclaim a proven regimen, exceedingly promotive of strength and complexion: / kuśa, kāśa, uśīra, grapes, and filaments of lotus, // 1049
this milk prepared [with these] should be given to an emaciated [child], along with sugar; / or ghee prepared with these and with the vitaliser drugs should be applied as an unguent. // 1050
Or one should give him milk boiled with madhuparṇī. / Tarkārī, blue water-lily, rock salt, vikasā, sesame seeds, // 1051
fruit of apāmārga, kuṣṭha, and powder of āmalaka, / aśvagandhā, cavya, and priyaṅgu, and white mustard seeds— // 1052
one should mix all these equal parts together with curd. / This is the best massage [powder], to be applied for one deficient in flesh. // 1053
Well-anointed, he should be immersed in a very cool tub of milk. / Now, a child who pants, coughs, and is feverish, // 1054
to him one should give these linctuses, and also as an after-drink: / kaṭphala, ginger, long pepper, and chebulic myrobalan, // 1055
and sauvarcala salt: he should lick these powders with honey and clarified butter. / Hareṇukā, long pepper, cardamom, along with durālabhā, // 1056
and grapes—well-ground, he should lick these with honey and clarified butter. / Kuṣṭha, puṣkaramūla, ginger, and chebulic myrobalan: // 1057
these to be ground into a paste he should drink with hot water. / Bhadramustā, asafetida, tagara, together with coraka, // 1058
ground with lukewarm water, he should drink to remove cough.

33.2

Lac, turmeric, madder, long pepper, and devadāru— // 1059
made into powders with clarified butter, this removes cough. / And for a child afflicted with morbid thirst, with a wretched face, withering away, // 1060
one should administer gavādanī and pomegranate with water. / Having ground a paste of priyaṅgu and bhadramustā, // 1061
one should give it combined with rice-water and mixed with honey. / Rice-grains parched, and bhadramustā [...] // 1062
having crushed the four in a new earthen pot, / he who is afflicted by morbid thirst and vomiting should drink that clear [liquid] mixed with honey. // 1063
And he should drink honey-water or indeed [...] / Aśvagandhā, sarja resin, barley powder, and curd, // 1064
mixed with honey and clarified butter, one should not smear upon the head. / Destroying burning sensation, morbid thirst, and vomiting, and curing all diseases, // 1065
this formulation, ice-cold, is to be applied. / For one on whose body pustules and severe burning sensation are observed, // 1066
one should treat him with bitter, sweet, and cooling decoctions. / Then powder of parpaṭaka, uśīra, and yellow earth— // 1067
having taken equal amounts of all, an ointment made from them ground together is beneficial. / Saugandhika, sugar, and filaments of white water-lily, // 1068
sandalwood, and madder: one should make an ointment for the child. / Sugar-water, oyster-shell, conch, lawn grass, and water-reed— // 1069
one should make this ointment, which destroys pustules. / In stomatitis, one should smear [the mouth] with raisins mixed with honey; // 1070
and one should cleanse his mouth with rasāñjana and honey. / For a child who refuses the mother's breast because of stomatitis, // 1071
one should rub him [in the mouth] with sprouts of jasmine together with honey. / One should prepare a charcoal-ash of śara-reed stalk with this paste; // 1072
knowing the mouth to be purified, one should rub it with clarified butter. / Then flowers of dhātakī, sallakī, and jiṅgiṇī, // 1073

33.3

samaṅgā, and rohiṇī—having ground these, one should cook sesame oil. / In discharge from the ear, this ear-oil, repeatedly purifying, [should be used]. // 1074
And sesame oil prepared with bilva and sandalwood is beneficial for filling [the ear]. / Sesame oil cooked with bilva paste and with wood-apple juice, // 1075
and milk, should be applied to the ear; it purifies the channels. / And that cooked with all fragrant substances is praised in suppurating ear. // 1076
And when it is cleansed, fumigation is done with marking-nut and guggulu. / An intelligent man should fill ears afflicted with pain with fragrant sesame oil; // 1077
and the juice of radish, lukewarm, is an ear-filling. // 1078a
Crab's claw, black pepper, puffed grain, madhūlikā, long pepper, and collyrium; / in a new potsherd [cooked], with licorice and honey: they declare this sesame oil for one afflicted with vomiting. // 1079
Long pepper, sugar, lac, licorice, and black pepper, / with bamboo manna, together with honey, is a linctus that destroys vomiting. // 1080
Bhārgī, with long pepper, pāṭhā, and payasyā,
II. Fol. 33: Bower manuscript
with honey, one should lick in vomiting caused by phlegm humour: thus said Jīvaka. // 1081
Bhadradāru, kuṣṭha, chebulic myrobalan, along with rock salt: / one should lick these with ghee thus, now in that caused by wind humour; // 1082
[...] / a linctus containing long pepper quickly checks vomiting. // 1083
One should give juice of cow dung combined with the four aromatics; / having licked this with honey, a creature is freed from vomiting. // 1084
And powder of long pepper and black pepper, with honey and sugar, with juice of

33.4

one should administer [juice] of citron; it destroys vomiting. // 1085
And one should add young shoots of mango and jambul, and of the latex-bearing trees,
payasyā, śārivā root, gaṇḍīra, together with plumbago. // 1086
Having boiled this, the child should drink it combined with honey and sugar;
containing the three aromatics, agreeable to the heart, it destroys vomiting and diarrhoea. // 1087
A decoction of bilva root well prepared with parched-paddy powder,
combined with sugar and honey, the child should lick in worm-vomiting. // 1088
Cardamom, asafoetida, bhārgī, dry ginger,
together with rock salt, one should quickly give to drink with ghee: it destroys colicky pain from the wind humour. // 1089
White sesame seeds with licorice, along with sugar, sesame oil, and honey—
this electuary cures dysentery and when blood is passed. // 1090
Licorice, paste of sesame,
sugar, and also honey,
combined with rice-water, one should give with honey and sugar // 1091
in the bloody diarrhoea of children; thereby he becomes comfortable.
Sprouts of banyan, rodhra, kārṣmarya fruit, and sugar, // 1092
licorice, bilva root,
samaṅgā, aṃśumatī, balā,
together with silk-cotton blossom, pṛśniparṇī, and dhātakī: // 1093
ghee prepared with these destroys dysentery very quickly.
Cinnamon bark, rodhra, and choice emblic myrobalans, // 1094
in equal parts, combined with honey as a powder, are a mouthwash.
Turmeric, neem leaves, licorice, honey, blue water-lily: // 1095
this oil should be cooked together with mārkava for stomatitis.
Astringent decoctions with honey, and powder of the three myrobalans, // 1096
are praised in stomatitis as a wash and as emetics.
The two bṛhatīs, castor root, tribulus, both vāśakas, // 1097
dry ginger, barley, darbha grass, and vṛkṣādana:

33.5

with these one should boil milk together with long pepper and ghee;
it should be given in chest injuries—so says Jīvaka. // 1098
The lesser group of five roots, horse-gram, and jujubes,
with rock salt […] combined with […] and ghee; // 1099
the two karañjas, darbha grass, cotton plant, and honey-śigru,
tribulus, vasuka, lotus fibres, together with water-lilies: // 1100
one should drink [a gruel] prepared with these as long as […] // 1101
[…] and there should be sugar.
Long pepper, rock salt, cardamom, and black pepper, // 1102
combined with sugar and honey, an electuary […]
[…] one should cook with jujube and barley. // 1103
Horse-gram, honey-śigru, and prepared francolin:
their meat-broth with little fat, sauvarcala salt […] // 1104
[…] is praised in sugars. // 1105a
Young shoots of jambul, wood-apple, shoots of banyan, and sprouts:
oil cooked with these is declared beneficial in discharge from the ear […] // 1106
[…] bākucī mixed with long pepper powder,
fruit of bṛhatī, black pepper, viḍaṅga, and oleander are declared worm-destroying. // 1107
Costus, turmeric, […] fruit;
[…] ground, this is declared beneficial as an unction to destroy itch. // 1108
Sidhma, ringworm, kiṭibha, scabies, and all skin disorders […]
[when this is] used, this is always commended for infants. // 1109
Stalks of blue water-lilies, edible lotus roots, lotus fibres,
young shoots of latex-bearing trees, and licorice: // 1110

33.6

one should boil darbha root, uśīra, and sorrel in clear water;
combined with sugar and honey, it is an excellent alleviator of morbid thirst. // 1111
Blue water-lilies, emblic myrobalan, priyaṅgu, and śārivā:
with these ground, for children […] // 1112
Seeds of pomegranate, sandalwood, filaments of lotus,
long pepper, sugar, and honey: this electuary destroys morbid thirst. // 1113
Having gathered bark and young shoots of the latex-bearing trees,
[…] one should place them in a new pot in an open space. // 1114
With śārivā, uśīra, nāgapuṣpa,
with sandalwood, mixed with padmaka and kālā,
having stirred it with petals of blue water-lily […] and // 1115
Having had his limbs sprinkled with these astringent decoctions, he should drink it combined with quail broth,
properly cooled with sugar, for the child, always avoiding salt and sour tastes. // 1116
Cool poultices, […], and cool rooms,
wet-nurses wearing cool and damp upper cloths, and cool meat-broths soothe morbid thirst. // 1117
And this regimen is prescribed to remove morbid thirst, and likewise it destroys bile fever and burning sensation.
Mūrvā […] should be applied here. // 1118
Asafoetida, karkaṭaśṛṅgī, red ochre, black pepper, dry ginger, cardamom:
this, combined with honey, in cough and hiccup […] // 1119

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