Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

When the measure of the milk evaporates, the product should be mixed with sugar, Tugakshiri (bamboo manna), honey, the expressed juice of the sugarcane, the pulv of the fruit of Piper long-urn and the pulv of the seeds of Ajada ( Mucuna pruriens), of one-fourth the measure, in the aggregate.

The physician should cause boluses to be made of the product thus arrived at. Each bolus should be of the size of a fruit of Udumvara {Ficus glamerata ).

By using these boluses, a person may be able to indulge in sexual pleasure like a sparrow.f 29-3i

APHRODISIAC PUDDING.

Of pure sugar take a hundred ‘palas’ ; of new ghee (of cow’s milk) take half that measure (50 palas) ;

Mix these with honey of one-fourth the measure (i, e., 25 palas) ;

Boil all these in water of one-fourth the measure (i. e., 25 palas) ;

Make the product thick by mixing it with wheat-flour of one-fourth the measure (*. e., 25 palas).

Spreading it out on an extended vessel of stone that is smooth and clean, it should be kneaded (with the hand), observing all condi-

* The boiling should go on till only 4 seers, that is, the measure of the ghee , remain.— T t A ‘patra is otherwise called an ‘adhaka’, that is, 8 seers. The measure of the ghee should, therefore, be double the quantity stated, that is, 16 seers. The expressed juice of Vidari should, therefore, be 1600 seers. The measure of the milk also should be 1600 seers. That of the 6 other ingredients should be 4 seers in the aggregate. — T.

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tions of cleanliness, into a ‘Lapsika’ (pudding) of the whiteness of the lunar disc.

By taking this ‘Lapsika’, a person is able to approach a woman with the energy of an elephant* 32-34

All that is sweet, oily, capable of promoting longevity, nutritive, heavy, and conducive to cheerfulness of mind, is said to be an aphrodisiac.

: Hence, strengthened by such articles, excited by one’s own impulse, and cheered by the qualifications of the woman herself, should one approach her.

After indulging in the act of congress, one should take a bath, and then drink a measure of milk, and then go to sleep.

By doing this, one acquires an accession of semen and strength {without feeling exhausted). 35-37

Verily, as the fragrance of a flower is not perceived during its stage of a bud but becomes perceivable only when it blooms, even so is the case with the semen of embodied creatures, (that is, it is not seen when one is of immature age but is seen when one arrives . at maturity). 38

One should not, before one is of sixteen years of age, approach a woman for sexual congress. Nor should one indulge in such congress when one is past seventy years of age. 39

A person of immature age and, therefore, of ‘dhatus’ or ingredients not all complete, by indulging in sexual congress, soon becomes dry <even as a lake with little water soon becomes dry. 4°

An old man also, by indulging in sexual congress, soon breaks -down even as a piece of wood that is dry, and without sap, and worm-eaten, and ricketty, breaks at the first touch. 41

The semen becomes exhausted in consequence of decrepitude, ■of anxiety, of diseases, of the fatigue which toil brings, of fasts or absence of food, and of excessixe indulgence. 42

'through loss (or waste of the ‘dhatus’), through fear, through modesty, through grief, through disgust for the faults (or deficiencies)

■ * Qillbala’ would mean a piece of level stone. The adjective ‘sfirna’ implies extended. •If would seem, however, that a flat and large ‘khalwi’ is meant. Spreading the materials •thely should be kneaded or pressed into what is called a ‘Lapsika’, j. ‘utkarikS’, meaning * pudding or paste. In Bengali, it is called ‘mohanbhoga. , — T.

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of the woman, through absence, on the part of the woman, of proper accomplishments, through incantations, through continued abstention from sexual congress, and through the satiety of over-indulgence, one’s ability for sexual congress disappears.

Cheerfulness is dependent upon strength of both body and mind. The power of sexual intercourse is, again, dependent upon cheerfulness. 43-44

As juice in the sugarcane, ghee in curds, and oil in sesame seeds, even so does the semen reside everywhere in the body, in the sense of touch. 45

Like water issuing from a piece of wet cloth (when the latter is pressed), the semen issues' out of its seat, in consequence of sexual congress with woman, owing to exertion, desire, and pressure.* 46

Through gladness, through desire, in consequence of its being a fluid, in consequence also of its sliminess, of its heaviness, of its downward motion, and of its subtility, and owing also to the quick¬ ness of motion which wind is endued with, for these eight reasons, the semen escapes from the body.

Of Him of universe-form who moves about in the body, the semen is said to be the material form.f 47-48

That semen which is thick, and sweet, and oily, which has not the scent of raw meat or fish, which is heavy, and slimy, which is white, and copious in quantity, is, without doubt, fruitful. 49