O Bull-bannered One, listen with reverence to these sacred and potent remedies, as revealed in the ancient scripture. When cool water is applied, it soothes burning sensations, relieving the heat that arises from blood-fever and the discomfort of fever itself. There are wondrous roots and herbs—shrīkashaila, mantha, dry ginger, papana, bhedaka, sauvanjana, gokshura, and the bark of varuna. If one takes the root of saubhāñjana and boils it with these, adding asafoetida and barley-alkali, and drinks this preparation, it destroys disorders caused by the derangement of wind in the body. For severe colic, there is no remedy greater than water boiled with long pepper, its root, and bhallataka, O auspicious one. When drunk, it brings swift relief. If the roots of ashwagandha are prepared with earth from an ant-hill and rubbed upon the thigh, O Rudra, the paralysis there is alleviated. The root of brihati, when ground with water and taken, disperses wind-accumulation within. The fresh root of tagara, drunk with buttermilk, removes jhinjhini-vata as decisively as Indra’s thunderbolt shatters obstacles. For the union of fractured bones, this should be consumed with food or with meat juice, for it heals both wind disorders and broken bones. If this preparation is smeared with ghee, dried, and then mixed with goat’s milk, its application reduces swelling of the foot—there can be no doubt. A mixture of honey, ghee, rock salt, beeswax, jaggery, and guggulu, combined with sarja resin and applied, purifies the spleen. When the foot is smeared with pungent oil, heated over a smokeless fire, and covered with earth, O Bull-bannered One, it becomes as strong as a bull’s. For burns, a paste made from sarjarasa, sikthaka, cumin, and haritaki with clarified butter relieves pain. Sesame oil, burnt in fire and mixed with barley ash, when repeatedly applied as a paste, destroys burn wounds. Fresh buffalo butter, burnt and ground sesame seeds, and bhallataka, when applied as a nasal ointment, remove wounds and headaches. O Hara, a wound filled with camphor and cow’s ghee, or one caused by a weapon and bound up, especially when white in color, touches both suppuration and pain, O Shankara. A wound from a weapon treated with the root juice of the mango tree and washed with ghee becomes free of injury. The roots of sharapunkha, lajjaluka, and patha, when ground with water and applied, soothe weapon wounds. The root of kakajangha, dried for three nights, destroys suppuration and pain, and promotes healing. Sesame oil mixed with the root of apamarga and water, when applied, removes pain from blows. For indigestion, O Shankara, a mixture of abhaya, rock salt, and dry ginger, ground and taken with water, is most effective. The root of neem, tied at the waist, removes pain of the eyes. The root of shana, with betel and burnt, relieves pain of the senses. Cooked turmeric, the root of white mustard, and the seeds of matulunga, used as a powder for seven days, bring about a healthy body. The leaf of white aparajita, with neem leaf juice, given as nasal drops, releases one from possession by dakinis, mothers, and brahmarakshasas, O Bull-bannered One; with honey, it is similarly effective when applied nasally. The root of white jayanti, gathered under the Pushya star, along with the roots of white aparajita and chitraka, when made into a pill and used as a tilaka, makes a woman subject to one’s will. Pippali, iron powder, dry ginger, and amalaki, along with rock salt and sugar-candy, O Rudra, are equal in virtue. Taken in the size of a fig for seven days, a man becomes strong and lives for two hundred years. The mantra ‘Om ṭha ṭha ṭha,’ used in all rituals of subjugation, fulfills every desire. If one collects the dwelling of a crow, burns it to ash, and places it on the head under an umbrella, O Shankara, it expels the target. The supreme method is this: the excrement is thrown onto the skin of a wild rat, bound with a thread of hemp, smeared with the blood of a black crow, and the name of the intended person is written upon it. Then, placed in the middle of a fallen leaf and cast away, both women and men are devoured by flocks of crows. A mixture of sugar, honey, cow’s milk, sesame, and gokshura, O Rudra, destroys an enemy—this is the expulsion, O Hara! If one desires enmity, the blood of an owl, a black crow, and a bilva fruit are combined, and when the names of two people are offered into the fire with these, great hostility arises between them—there is no doubt. The meat of a fish—especially rohu—when prepared with bear’s milk and oil and used for massage, cures diseases. If then washed with sandalwood water, hair will grow again. A man who takes the root of the langali plant in his hand and applies it to his body dispels the pride of old age. O Shiva, with peacock’s blood, one can take away life—even from living, burning snakes dwelling in their holes, O Lord. If the body of a snake or python is burned in a funeral fire, and its ashes are thrown in front of enemies, it brings about their destruction. If this is cast with the mantra, ‘Om ṭha ṭha ṭha, come O serpent, come! Svaha. Om, protect the belly, protect, protect! Svaha,’ it causes great destruction to the enemy. If the excrement of a Sudarshana bird is collected under the Pushya star and placed in the middle of a house, snakes will avoid that place. O Shiva, a wick made from the root of the arka plant, ignited by the sun’s fire and mixed with siddhartha oil, destroys snakes along the path. Cat dung, treated with orpiment and smeared with goat urine, if applied, will cause a mouse to destroy other mice. Thus, O Lord of Lords, have these mysteries and remedies been revealed—each with its own purpose, power, and place in the great tapestry of healing and protection.