The Bower Manuscript 33.5

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