Special preparations
कल्पसिद्धाधिकार · उत्तरतंत्र
Opening line of the twenty-fifth chapter, which the running heads of the following pages call the kalpadhikara, the section on special preparations (kalpas). It opens with the kalpas of haritaki and triphala.
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Bowing to Jinendra, who is worshipped by the munis, the ganadharas and the lords of the gods, the author says he will tell some variants of the kalpas that remove the bodily distress of…
The author says that first of all, with great effort and following the rules of the science, he will tell the haritaki kalpa, which gives people freedom from fear (abhaya).
Abhaya (haritaki) is said to be truly fearless and to give well-being; taken constantly it is like a rasayana for the growth of the rasas. Used with salts such as rock salt it destroys…
Abhaya taken with dry ginger is said to remove kapha, with costus (kushtha) to destroy the diseases of all the doshas, and with sugar to remove the complications of disease.
Opening line of the twenty-fifth chapter, which the running heads of the following pages call the kalpadhikara, the section on special preparations (kalpas). It opens with the kalpas of…
Abhaya is called a kindler of the digestive fire. Amalaki is described as pure and the best of fruits, and as very cold like snow, while abhaya is very hot; this is said to be the…
The Jina is said to have taught that bibhitaki has qualities like abhaya. Haritaki, bibhitaki and amalaki together are therefore called triphala, and since, according to the commentary,…
Triphala is praised as nectar on earth that removes all diseases, keeps youth, firms the body, gives wonderful intellect, cleanses the wastes, kindles the fire and restores strength to…
Shilajatu, stone flower and its paste, iron calx, nagaramotha, atinila and large cardamom are each powdered very finely on their own and each is impregnated with triphala decoction. Taken…
Stone flower is cooked very carefully with khadira heartwood and then with triphala; drinking it, the text says, removes even the most dreadful kinds of kushtha.
Rock water (shilajal) is drunk with shilajatu, the paste of stone flower and the bark of nimba and kunimba; this is said to destroy every kind of kushtha.
The paste of stone flower and shilavalka is taken with boiled cow's milk mixed with long pepper and sugar; the text says this removes kshaya very quickly. The verse is on PDF 656 and its…
Milk mixed with shilavalka powder is cooked into kheer; eaten constantly, it is said to make even a very weak person very strong within a month.
Pure shilavalkala powder is mixed with a layer of lac and made into a collyrium with ghee; the text says it is always useful for the eyes.
Shilavalkala decoction mixed with triphala powder and drunk is said to make the body lean, while the same taken with ghee, sugar and milk nourishes it. The paste of rock bark with triphala,…
The author closes the account of the rock-bark (upalavalkala) paste kalpa, told at length, and announces the kalpa of shilajatu, which has many forms but will be given with a few variants.
The author now gives the shilajatu kalpa together with its origin and nature. In summer the mountains, scorched by the fire-like rays of the sun, exude from the hard, cracked rocks of their…
Tin, lead, iron, copper, silver and gold are the six metals named as the sources (yoni) of shilajatu, and shilajatu from each later metal has more virtue than the one before. It is taken by…
A black kind of shilajatu called usha is described as liquid and shining like lac, plainly showing five colours, used in mercury work and able to make the six metals liquid. Mixed with…
A physician who knows poisons selects vamyesha (the commentary: kavach seed or talmakhana) that birds have eaten and that is therefore free of poison, and gives it with milk, ghee and…
Stones shaped like the fruits of various trees (pashanabheda) are identified, cooked many times in the decoction of those fruits, powdered and eaten with milk, ghee, sugar or jaggery; after…
A special black stone called bhallataka stone is found three kos east of the famous city of Kolipaka, beside a village of the same name. One adhaka each of its powder, cow ghee, bhallataka…
A person of good conduct, pure in self (free of the passions) and pure in body (cleansed by the five actions beginning with emesis), living in a hidden, windless house on a comfortable bed,…
Bhallataka stone powder is ground with cow's milk and given three putas in a fire of cow-dung cakes. A person already purified by emesis, purgation and the like takes it mixed with milk,…
After purifying body and self by emesis and the like and by restraining the passions, a person cooks the excellent kharpari, a kind of upadhatu, in water with the triphala rasayana…
Taken daily for a year in the stated order, with bathing in the same water, oiling of the body, residence in the prescribed house and the stated food, the kharpari kalpa is said to make a…
Vajras are of many kinds (vajra, vajraloha, vajrabandha fruit, vajrakapala, vajra stone). Whichever can be had are burnt in the strong fire of a bellows, quenched while red in water made…
The vajra rasayana taken with ghee for six months, with food mixed with ghee and milk and other good medicines after it is digested each day, is said to give a body firm as vajra and the…
Earth that birds eat every day is collected, mixed with ghee, milk and sugarcane juice and eaten by a man wearing clean dress; the text says he gains strength that no one can destroy,…
Goshringi (the commentary: babul) and girishringaja (the commentary: shilajit) are dried, powdered and cooked by rule with cow's milk, cow ghee and jaggery into a linctus, eaten in due…
Eatables such as confections and linctuses prepared with castor root, guduchi, gajakarni and bhallataka (the commentary's reading of the verse's vira tree) are eaten daily by the stated…
Nagi (the commentary: vandhya karkotaka), kharakarnika (the commentary: talmakhana; a footnote gives the variant svarakarnika), kutaja, chirayata and mahanimba are powdered with their…
The author announces that he will now briefly set out the special procedures, that is the kalpas, of kshara, triphala, the chitraka group, white ashvagandha, guduchi, punarnava and other…
Talmakhana, sugarcane, musli, tilaja, apamarga, nirgundi, rambha (the commentary prints vela), arka, lotus, castor, chitraka, sesame and other famous drugs are burnt to ash; the ash is…
Purified chitraka root is boiled into a decoction; burnt shankhanabhi and pure best sugar are quickly put in, it is strained, phanita is added, and when cool the paste of all the fragrant…
In the same way, triphala, chitraka and the other drugs named in verse 40 are cooked by the stated decoction-cooking method (the commentary: with phanita or sugar and aromatics, prepared…
Taking the kalpa combinations of many kinds by the rule of the science is said to give special strength, splendour, life, virility, invincibility and freedom from disease. These formulas,…
The author names his supreme guru, the great muni Shrinandi, master of the whole canon, at whose feet King Vishnuraja bowed, and says that by his command he composed this work, drawn from…
The closing verse likens the work to a drop drawn from the great ocean of scripture that came from the mouth of Jinendra, whose waves are all substances, principles and categories and whose…
- Colophon of chapter 25इत्युग्रादित्याचार्यविरचितकल्याणकारकोत्तरतन्त्रे नानाविकल्पकल्पनासिद्धये कल्पाधिकारः पञ्चमोऽध्यायः आदितः पञ्चविंशतितमः परिच्छेदः।Editorialp. 598
The Sanskrit colophon closes the kalpadhikara, composed for accomplishing the many variants of kalpas, as the fifth chapter of the uttaratantra of the Kalyanakaraka by Ugradityacharya and…