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Fol. 5: Bower manuscript Knowing this to be accomplished, one should strain it and place it in an auspicious vessel. / When it has cooled, one should add a prastha measure of well-strained honey. // 114 One should add sixteen pala measures of powdered white sugar, / half a pala measure of black pepper, and one pala measure of fine cardamom should be given. // 115 Having dusted it with these fine powders, the wise physician should churn it with a churning stick. / The prudent one should administer a dose of it, considering the strength of the digestive fire. // 116 And when it has digested, the physician should give rice prepared from winter rice with meat broth of arid-tract animals. / Amṛtaprāśa is supreme, increasing strength and complexion in men. // 117 It should be employed in phthisis and chest injury, in the elderly, in the emaciated, and in children; / it should also be employed in those fainting, those wheezing, and in hiccup. // 118 This clarified butter known as Amṛta was formulated by Ātreya. Amṛtaprāśa clarified butter: 11 verses and 1 quarter-verse. Priyangu, tagara, costus, pomegranate, and elavāluka, // 119 tālīsa, medā, the three myrobalans, stamens, the two bṛhatīs, / blue lotus, devadāru, sandalwood, and the two types of śārivā, // 120 the two kinds of turmeric, viḍaṅga, jasmin flowers, / dantī, aṃśumatī, madder, and also śālaparṇī, // 121 measured in akṣa units each: one should cook a prastha measure of ghee in four times as much water. / This clarified butter named Kalyāṇaka is the best for drinking. // 122 It cures cough, dyspnoea, catarrh, tertian and quartan fevers, / insanity, chest-wound, erysipelas, urinary disorders, gout, // 123 hiccup, vomiting, anemia, edemas, / urinary retention, semen disorders in men, and disorders of the female genital tract in women. // 124 A barren woman conceives, and it also destroys artificial poisons; / in cases of powder-poison formulas and in those afflicted with poison, // 125 in spleen diseases, piles, and abdominal swellings, this ghee is like nectar. / It produces strength and complexion, kindles the digestive fire, and promotes wellness; // 126 it even dispels misfortune if this ghee is kept in the home. // The ghee named Kalyāṇaka: 8 verses. Jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, vīrā, kākanāsā, and mṛṇālī, // 127 mudgaparṇī, māṣaparṇī, ṛddhi, and medā one should collect, / mahāsahā, kṣudrasahā, and likewise kākolī, // 128 abhīruparṇī, haṃsapadī, śaṭī, and fruits of the cowhage, / the fruit of date, raisins, mango, and emblic myrobalans, // 129 long pepper, ginger, and likewise raw sugar and sugar: / one should take a paste of these, and milk together with clarified butter. // 130 When it is cooked and strained, one should drink it to destroy disease; / this destroys wind humour, bile humour, chest injury, and cough. // 131 Mahākalyāṇaka clarified butter destroys many diseases; / it was accomplished and taught by the great-souled Ātreya to Agastya. // 132 Mahākalyāṇaka ghee: 5 verses and 1 quarter-verse. Neem, paṭola, tree-turmeric, durālabhā, bitter rohiṇī, the three myrobalans, / parpaṭaka, and trāyamāṇā—one should take half a pala measure of each; // 133 they are boiled in an āḍhaka measure of water, and when reduced to an eighth part of the liquid, / one should add red sandalwood, kirātatikta, long pepper, and trāyamāṇā, // 134 mustā, and vatsaka seeds, having made a paste in portions of half a karṣa measure; / and six pala measures of fresh clarified butter: this finished ghee should be drunk. // 135 It cures dermatoses, fever, abdominal swelling, piles, chronic bowel disease, anemia, and edema, / and dispels erysipelas, kitibha, scabies, itching, foot cracks, and swellings; it is proven. // 136 Tiktaka ghee: 4 verses. Saptacchada, prativiṣā, śamyāka, bitter rohiṇī, pāṭhā, / mustā, uśīra, the three myrobalans, paṭola, picumanda, parpaṭaka, // 137 dhanvayavāṣaka, sandalwood, upakulyā, padmaka, and the two kinds of turmeric, / ṣaḍgranthā, viśālā, śatāvarī, and both kinds of śārivā, // 138 vatsaka seeds, vāsā, mūrvā, amṛtā, / and kirātatikta: the wise physician should make a paste of these, with licorice and trāyamāṇā; // 139 one quarter-part of the paste, eight times the water, and juice of the emblic myrobalans / given twice the measure of the ghee: one should administer that cooked clarified butter. // 140 It immediately cures dermatoses marked by wind and bile humours, bleeding piles, / erysipelas, internal hemorrhage, gout, anemia, // 141 blisters along with scabies, insanity, jaundice, parasitic worms, itching, / heart disease, boils, carbuncles, irregular / menses, and scrofula, // 142 when this clarified butter is drunk at the proper time according to one's strength; / this great clarified butter conquers great clinical domains that were not conquered even by hundreds of remedies. // 143 Mahātiktaka: 7 verses. Both kinds of turmeric, madder, pāṭhā, bitter rohiṇī, / plumbago, then viḍaṅga, long pepper, trivṛt, calamus, // 144 śārivā, costus, mustā, cardamom, and licorice, measured an akṣa each, / and one should add śaṅkhapuṣpī to five prastha measures of the five bovine products. // 145 Having drunk this cooked ghee, one becomes strong and free from disease, / endowed with a clear complexion, intelligent, radiant, and tireless with women. // 146 By this the voice is purified, and the sacred knowledge one has studied is never lost again; / it produces voice and complexion, and implants the embryo in barren women. // 147 Pañcagavya: 4 - [Previous: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.6) - [Next: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.8) ## Linked texts (1) - [Bower Manuscript](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower.7) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.bower~en-mt.7) · Pramāṇa