The Bower Manuscript 9

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II. Fol. 7: Bower manuscript
There should be the three pungents, with the three myrobalans, with pāṭhā, with citraka, then there should be devadāru, / rāsnā, śaṭī, tāmalakī, vidārī, nidigdhikā, gokṣuraka, and sthirā; // 182
there should be ātmaguptā, and then śārivā, and one should indeed add medā and śatāvarī.
Taking all these in equal parts, one should cook ghee with four times as much milk. // 188
One should give it for cough, fever, piles, headache, and likewise for aversion to food, / for heart disease, vātāṣṭhīlā, vātagulma, spleen [disease], and to those emaciated by chest wounds; // 184
administered according to rule, it destroys all piles, agitated [diseases], and agitated wind humour. // 185a // Mahātryūṣaṇa by name: 2 verses and 1 quarter. One should gather mudgaparṇī, māṣaparṇī, ṛddhi, and medā,
mahāsahā, kṣudrasahā, and likewise kākolī, // 186
abhītaparṇī, haṃsapadī, śaṭī, and fruits of kacchū, / phalgu, dates, dried grapes, mango, and emblic myrobalans, // 187
bilva, agnimantha, śyonāka, kārṣmarya, pāṭalā, balā, / the four parṇīs, long pepper, śvadaṃṣṭrā, the two bṛhatīs, // 188
śṛṅgī, tāmalakī, drākṣā, jīvantī, puṣkaramūla, aguru, / abhayā, amṛtā, ṛddhi, jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, śaṭī, // 189
mustā, punarnavā, medā, cardamom, sandalwood, utpala, / vidārī, roots of vṛṣa, kākolī, kākanāsikā: // 190
one pala-measured share of each of these, and five hundred [fruits] of emblic myrobalan / one should add; one should boil them together in a droṇa of water. // 191
Knowing these medicinal herbs to have lost their essence, then having removed that essence and those emblic myrobalans, / deseeded, fried in twelve palas of sesame oil and clarified butter, // 192
fifty palas of purified sugar candy are to be added; one should prepare it properly like an electuary. // 193
When it is prepared and cooled, one should add six palas of honey to it, / four palas of tukākṣīrī, and likewise two palas of long pepper; // 194
and one should add one pala of cinnamon bark, cardamom, leaves, and filament. / Thus this Cyavanaprāśa is proclaimed as the supreme rejuvenating tonic. // 195
It is specially taught as destroying cough and asthma, / and promoting body growth in those emaciated by chest wounds, the old, and children; // 196
it removes loss of voice, chest disease, heart disease, vātaśoṇita, / thirst, and the humours settled in the urine and semen. // 197
One should administer a dose of it that does not hinder food. / Through its use Cyavana, though very old, became young again; // 198
[it brings] intellect, memory, lustre, freedom from sickness, extension of life, strength of the faculties, / excellence among women, increase of digestive fire, clarity of complexion, and the natural downward movement of the wind humour. // 199
From the use of this rejuvenating tonic, even an aged man, by entering a hut, / would shed his former form wrought by old age and bear the form of fresh youths. // 200 // Cyavanaprāśa clarified butter: 15 verses. Chebulic myrobalan, the three pungents, vacā, kaṭukarohiṇī, / sauvarcala salt, yavakṣāra, viḍaṅga, and likewise citraka: // 201
with an akṣa measure of each of these, one should cook a prastha measure of ghee. / Having then strained it once cooked, one should have it drunk according to strength. // 202
This Daśāṅga destroys vātagulma, spleen [disease], cough, together with hiccup and worms, / just as Indra's thunderbolt destroys the asuras. // 203 // Daśāṅga by name clarified butter: 3 verses. Citraka and the three myrobalans, bṛhatī, kaṇṭakārikā, / milky juice of snuhī, viḍaṅga: the fresh ghee is spoken of; // 204
with a karṣa of each, one should cook a kuḍava measure of ghee; / one should boil it over a gentle fire with four times as much water. // 205
At the proper time, one should drink a dose of this measuring half a karṣa; / and one should drink hot water after it, on account of the small quantity of that clarified butter. // 206
When purged, one should have barley gruel mixed with clarified butter, / or the physician should give food with meat-broth of wild animals. // 207
It stimulates weak digestion and cures vātagulma, upward movement of wind, scrotal enlargement, / piles, and spleen [disease], and destroys leprosy humours. // 208
Celebrated as Nārācaka, clarified butter like an iron arrow, / it should be applied by the physician just like an iron arrow against an enemy. // 209 // Nārācaka by name clarified butter: 6 verses. One should take eight palas of mature radishes; / one should boil them in a pot with a droṇa of water slowly over a gentle fire. // 210
Having ground it to the measure of a bilva fruit, one should put it in; / here one should grind five palas of the pulp of pomegranates. // 211
One should add here one pala each of long pepper and ginger, / and here one should add well-ground root of citraka. // 212
And here one should add eight palas of fresh ghee; / and an equal dose of well-formed curd is prescribed here. // 213 // Having brought together all this,