Śatadhanya: I have brought the makara-dhvaja from the kavirāja in Delhi. This kavirāja, he's not Rāmānuja-sampradāya, but many people say in Delhi that he's the foremost kavirāja in India. He treats the Prime Minister, Morarji Desai, and all the ministers also. So many people trusted him, and he mixed this medicine... He was mixing it for some other person, but when he heard that you were ill, he gave it to us.
Bhavānanda: What kind of makara-dhvaja?
Śatadhanya: There's different kinds of makara-dhvaja, six kinds. This is the most potent kind. This is called siddha makara-dhvaja. This contains gold and pearl and musk and mica and many other ingredients.
Bhavānanda: And what are the other ingredients you have to take it with?
Śatadhanya: You can take it with either honey or milk. But he recommended that for Prabhupāda's particular condition he take it with honey.
Prabhupāda: That's all right. What did he charge?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What did he charge?
Śatadhanya: Nothing. We got it for free because we got it through one influential man named Chandra Swami.
Prabhupāda: Oh.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, Chandra Swami. That's that person Ādi-keśava was always working with.
Prabhupāda: That means he's honest. That's all.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You met Chandra Swami?
Śatadhanya: No, he's in Madras. This is forty-eight doses, two doses a day. That means this is twenty-four days' medicine makara-dhvaja. Two doses per day.
Prabhupāda: So do it carefully. Tamāla?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: You take care.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: All right. I'll keep it locked up.
Prabhupāda: They charged nothing. Then he is honest.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Did he say what the charge would normally have been?
Śatadhanya: No. But he did say that what the other kavirājas said about dosage was very wrong, and that if that dose was taken it would have been detrimental.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Which dose?
Śatadhanya: One tolā. He said that's not sane.
Bhavānanda: Did he say anything about length of time involved for the efficacy of the medicine?
Śatadhanya: No. He just said it's very powerful medicine.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What time should it be taken? Morning and night?
Śatadhanya: Morning and evening.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Any particular time in the morning?
Śatadhanya: No.
Bhavānanda: Śrīla Prabhupāda, would you like to take some now?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Why not? Huh? Tamāla?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Simply with honey.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Is it in the form of powder? So it's mixed...
Śatadhanya: It's already mixed and separated into separate doses.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And it's put in a spoon of honey?
Śatadhanya: It's mixed with honey.
Bhavānanda: About ten drops of honey.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's already with honey?
Śatadhanya: No, you have to mix it with honey.
Bhavānanda: How much honey?
Śatadhanya: He said just some honey.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Just so it becomes palatable.
Bhavānanda: So Bhakti-caru Mahārāja will take charge of mixing that?
Prabhupāda: Where he is?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Bhakti-caru? He's here.
Prabhupāda: (Bengali)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I'll keep it locked in the almirah, and I will give one dose at a time to Bhakti-caru.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: And he will mix it with honey and give to you.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Bhavānanda: Very good. So let's mix a little...
Prabhupāda: What is date today?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Today is the 25th. It's an inauspicious day. So it's the proper day to begin taking it.
Prabhupāda: So let us begin tomorrow morning.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Begin tomorrow morning, on an auspicious day.
Prabhupāda: Ha.
Bhavānanda: Of course, you... Śrīla Prabhupāda, you've said when an auspicious thing comes along, it's best to act on it immediately. However, if you feel that you want to start in the morning...
Prabhupāda: You decide.
Trivikrama: You should take it now.
Pañca-draviḍa: Yes.
Prabhupāda: All right.
Pañca-draviḍa: If something's auspicious, why wait for tomorrow?
Prabhupāda: So?
Bhakti-caru: Here, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Bhakti-caru... (Bengali)
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: All right, we'll go an arrange, Śrīla Prabhupāda. (devotees chant japa) (break)