The Bower Manuscript 36

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III. Fol. 3: Bower manuscript
1 Dill, Himalayan cedar, spikenard, bitumen, sweet flag, / sandalwood, tagara, saussurea root, cardamom, and also salaparni— // 40
portions of one karṣa of each of these should be cooked in that sesame oil. / Hear, moreover, the potency of this prepared sesame oil: // 41
It is [recommended] for the lame, mares, and the hunchbacked along with dwarfs, / and briefly for the fractured and those with broken bones; // 42
and for wind-gulma, heart-pains, and violent flank-pains; / coughs, dyspnea, splenomegaly, abdominal swelling, ascites, and fistula-in-ano; // 43
and jaundice, anemia, and those whose complexion is ruined and depleted by consumption; / for one whose limb is wasting away, and whose gait is weak; // 44
and whoever has weakened sense-organs, and those who are worn out by old age; / whoever hears loudly, and those who lisp; // 45
and those in the world who are dull-witted, and whose learning perishes; / and men possessed by Vināyaka, and those disliked by women; // 46
and those whose testicles are affected by the wind humour, and who suffer violent inguinal hernia; / and also for women who are barren, or who bear only one child; // 47
and the woman whose menstruation is retained, and also whose menstruation has ceased; / and she who does not conceive, or whose pregnancy miscarries; // 48
and she who is barren due to vaginal pain, and likewise [due to] discharges; / ringworm, kiṭibha-skin disease, circle-lesions, and eczema; // 49
as many phlegm-humour diseases, wind-humour diseases, and bile-humour diseases as there are; / and whose mouth is foul-smelling, and whatever corrupt ulcers are in the mouth. // 50
They say this is the cure for all diseases. / It should be employed as an errhine, a drink, an ointment, or an unctuous enema, // 51
and as an electuary, promoting long life for men. / By name, it is indeed called Siddhārtha, formulated by Nārāyaṇa. // 52
One should eat the vegetable varuṇaka cooked with goat's buttermilk, beginning with wheat. // 53
[…] roots, black pepper, and white mustard / crushed with cow's urine is the supreme rubbing application for vitiligo. // 54
With bdellium, black pepper, viḍaṅga, mustard, iron sulphate, and resin of shorea; / turpentine, aloe, realgar, blue vitriol, and kampillaka; // 55
together with both kinds of turmeric, blended with sesame oil, placed under the heat of the sun— / smeared with these, skin disease and corrupt ulcers subside. // 56
Five palas each of dantī, trivṛt, and viḍaṅga, / three palas of nut-grass, and one pala of chebulic myrobalan; // 57
and two palas of roots of kākodumbarikā; / one should bind eighteen sweets with the milky juice of snuhī. // 58
On every tenth day, one should consume one sweet; / and when it is digested, one should drink supernatant rice gruel, and on the second, thick rice gruel. // 59
In five nights, desire is attained, destroying all skin diseases. // 60
[…] well-known sweets. // Emblic myrobalan, belleric myrobalan, chebulic myrobalan with viḍaṅga, plumbago, marking-nut, bākucī, bhṛṅgarāja, and iron, / increased in successive [proportions], submerged in sesame oil, eradicates all / skin diseases through an electuary. // 61
One should rub it on, even where there is no kākolī. // 62
Equal parts of roots of oleander, bitter apple, and lāṅgalī, with bdellium, / accompanied by half a part of chimney soot, mixed with the urine of a he-goat […] // 63
Having made dried pills the size of a jujube berry, upon an open fistula-in-ano / applying that every day, the fistula-in-ano soon disappears. // 64
Punarnavā, guḍūcī, dry ginger, then brick, pāṭhā, […] / on the arising of a fistula boil like a banyan leaf in a person, / crushed with pure water, physicians know it to destroy fistula-in-ano; it is said to have been constantly verified by the best physicians. // 65