Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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Whatever things may be agreeable to one’s mind, such as delight¬ ful woods and gardens, banks of rivers and lakes, hills and mountains, agreeable and beloved women, ornaments and perfumes and floral garlands, and beloved friends and companions, should all be regarded as aids to aphrodisiac combinations.* 32
Thus ends the second Section, called ‘Asikta-kshirika’, of Lesson II on ‘VSjikarana.’
§ 3. MASHAPARNA-VAJIKARANA.
We shall now expound the 3rd Section, called ‘MashaparnaVajikarana,’ (of Lesson II).f
Thus said the illustrious son of Atri. 1
The milk of a cow that is fed with the leaves of Masha ( Phaseolus radiatus), that has calved for the first time, that .is healthy and plump, that has four teats in her udders, that has her calf living and of the same colour with her, that is either red or white or black in colour, that has horns rising perpendicularly, that is mild of temper, that t .MSshaparna- VSjikarana’ implies aphrodisiacs with the help of ‘MSshaparna’ or the seeds of Phaseolus radiatus. — T.
* Gangadhara rightly explains that the things mentioned in verse 32 are, instead of being aphrodisiacs, aids to aphrodisiacs. Everything that contributes to cheerfulness of mind must necessarily be so. — T.
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eats sugarcanes as also leaves of Arjuna ( Pentaptna Arjuna ), and that yields thick milk, should be drunk by an intelligent person.
The milk should be drunk, raw or boiled, with sugar, and honey, and ghee mixed with it.
Such milk should be regarded as one of the foremost of aphrodisiacs. 2-4
A person who desires an inexhaustible stock of semen, should drink milk boiled with drugs which, increase the measure of semen, also milk boiled with drugs which prolong life, also milk boiled with drugs which promote nutrition and increase corpulency, also milk boiled with drugs which increase the milk of the body.
Each of these preparations of milk should be mixed with wheatflour and ghee and honey and sugar.* 5-6
Take 2 tolas of each of the following drugs, viz., Meda (not iden¬ tifiable, Agwagandha or ( Physalis flexuosa being used as a substitute), Payasya (otherwise called Kshirakakoli), Jivanti ( Ccelogyne ovalis), Vidari ( Batatus paniculatus), Kantakari ( Solarium Xanthocarpuni), Masha (seeds of Phaseolus radiatus), £wadangshtra (otherwise called Gokshura or Tribulus lanuginosus), Kshirika (otherwise called Rajadani or Mimusops hexandra), Godhuma (wheat), Qali (a variety of rice), and Shastika (a variety of rice).
Boil these in 8 seers of milk with 8 seers of water.
The boiling should be regarded as over when only the measure of the milk remains in the vessel.
It should then be strained, and' mixed with honey, ghee, and sugar.
If this preparation is drunk by an old man of even seventy years of age, he gets a large progeny, and enjoys the pleasure of sexual congress like a young man in full vigour of health. 7-9
The milk of such a cow, boiled with circular leaves of pure gold, and mixed with ghee, honey, and sugar, is another aphrodisiac which enables a person to beget many children. 10
Take thirty fruits of Piper longum. Pound them properly. The powder should be fried in a ‘Prakuncha’ of oil and ghee.\ t A ‘Prakuncha’ is
* Milk boiled with glactiphorous drugs is prescribed for even male persons because the milk generated in a male person is conducive to an increase of oiliness of the body as also of semen. — T.
‘pala’ or 8 tolas. — T.
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It should then be mixed with sugar and honey.
The product should be placed in a vessel.
Into this vessel the milk should be drawn from the udders of a cow of the description given above.
The milk thus drawn should be taken by one desirous of using aphrodisiacs.
The measure should be according to one’s appetite.
After the milk has been digested, one should take ‘Shastika’ rice, with a copious measure of milk and ghee.
By this the turgidity is continuously maintained of one’s organ, and one’s power is greatly increased of retaining the vital seed.* n-12
Take a certain measure of Masha (the seeds of Phaseolus radiatus) and ‘Shastika’ rice.
Take an equal measure of £wadangshtra (Tribulus lanuginosus) and Vidari ( Batatus paniculatus). With the expressed juice of these, to which should be added four times as much milk, the former should be cooked into a frumenty.
Enriched with ghee, this frumenty proves to be a good aphrodisjac. 13
Take a ‘Kudava’ (half a seer) of the powder of the fruits of the group of drugs called Jivanya.
Also the powder, of the same measure, of the fruits of the group of drugs classed as ‘Snigdha’ or emollients.
Also the powder, of the same measure, of the fruits of the group t>f drugs classed as ‘Ruchikari’ (capable of creating a relish for food).
Also the powder, of the same measure, of the fruits of Atmagupta (Mucuna pruriens).
Also the powder, of the same measure, of the seeds of Masha (. Phaseolus radiatus).
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