The Bower Manuscript 34

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III. Fol. 1: Bower manuscript
[...] citraka, dantī, karavīra, guñjā, lāṅgalakī, / bṛhatī, suvarṇapuṣpī, pīlu, viśvāhvayā, nahikā, // 1 // green vitriol [...] / with one karṣa of each thoroughly ground, one should also add one kuḍava measure of arkakṣīra. // 2 // Combined with these substances, one prastha measure of sesame oil in four times as much water, cow's urine [...] // 3 // [...] in ringworm, kiṭibha, and leprosy, and then in artificial poisonings, / in sinus ulcers, corrupted wounds, and poison-vitiated cervical lymphadenitis, // 4 // [...] and kadamba, / castor, kuṣṭha, pāṭhā, viḍaṅga, [...] nirguṇḍī, // 5 // śrīveṣṭaka, kampilyaka, devadāru, realgar, viśālā, / and [...] from the great tree; // 6 // prepared with portions of half an akṣa each, the sesame oil destroys piles; / either fire, an instrument, or caustic alkali: this sesame oil dries [them] up. // 7 // [...] there are wounds; / ringworm, leukoderma, scabies, eczema, annular eruptions, pityriasis, // 8 // and fistula-in-ano of the vaginal canal, vajraka oil destroys. // 9a // [...] having boiled / three hundred bhallātaka fruits, / when that water is reduced to a quarter, [...] // 10 // one should throw in aconite and ativiṣā, to be ground, one pala measure each. / For one month, one should drink the oil in an amount suited to one's capacity. // 11 // When it has digested, one should prudently partake of food; / the resolute man will destroy eighteen [kinds of leprosy], as the Buddha [destroys] the hosts of defilements. // 12 // Given by Māṇibhadra, this formulation, which destroys leprosy, / was [imparted] out of compassion with a tender heart to a monk who was about to die. // 13 // [...] whose fingers and toes and nose were rotting away; / through this he emerged completely anew, like the lord of stars freed from an eclipse! // 14 // Trāyamāṇā, viśālā, kaṭukārohiṇī, [...] / [...] and cinnamon and cardamom in equal parts; // 15 // mixed with nahikākāsī, one should reduce them to a fine powder; / a kuḍava measure each of heartwood of khadira and asana [...] // 16 // [...] one should decoct. / One should drink [it] mixed with a karṣa measure of the powder, and take food: // 17 // when it is digested, sixty-day rice with mung-bean soup mixed with clarified butter. // 18a // [...] // 18 // [...] / of the sense-faculties, but formulations administered wrongly [act] just like horses tormented by the summer heat. // 19 // With half a pala measure of iron, the three myrobalans [...]