Rasamanjari 4
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Rasamañjarī, 4
<The Eighteen Aconites>
It should be known as eighteen-fold, declared as tuber-born: / kālakūṭa, that named mayūra, binduka, and saktuka;
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vāluka, vatsanābha, śaṅkhanābha, and sumaṅgala; / śṛṅgī, markaṭaka, musta, kardama, puṣkara, śikhin;
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hāridra, harita, cakra, and the aconite named hālāhala. / <Appearance of the Aconites>
Dense, dry, and hard, with a lustre like broken collyrium,
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shaped like a tuber: [such is] declared to be kālakūṭa, the great aconite. / Having the lustre of a peacock is that named mayūra; resembling a drop is taught as binduka.
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Variegated and resembling a blue-lotus tuber is śaktuka, or it may be like barley meal. / vāluka is shaped like sand; vatsanābha is pale.
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śaṅkhanābha has the colour of a conch; sumaṅgala is white in colour. / Dense, heavy, compact, and shaped like a horn is śṛṅgika.
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markaṭa has the colour and lustre of a monkey; mustaka is shaped like nutgrass rhizome. / kardama is shaped like mud; kardama is also white and yellow.
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puṣkara is shaped like a blue lotus; śikhin has the radiance of a peacock's crest. / hāridraka resembles turmeric; harita is remembered as green.
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cakra is wheel-shaped; halāhala is blue in colour. / Among them, the brāhmaṇa is pale; the kṣatriya is red-coloured;
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the vaiśya is yellow-hued; the śūdra, dark-hued, is remembered as censured. / The brāhmaṇa is given in disease; the kṣatriya, in cases of poison-ingestion; / the vaiśya, in all diseases; for one bitten by a snake, the śūdra [is given].
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<Calcination of Aconite>
Ground with an equal amount of borax, that aconite is said to be calcined. / One should employ it in all diseases; it indeed produces no adverse reaction.
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<Purification of Aconite>
Having cut portions of aconite into coarse pieces like broken grains in a vessel, / then having added cow's urine, fresh each day,
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after three days, having dried [it] in intense sunshine, / one should then use that aconite in therapeutic preparations according to the prescribed dose.
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<Administration of Aconite>
The calcination of aconite has been declared; now I shall state its administration.
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One should administer it in autumn, summer, spring, and during the rains. / In the four months of the rainy season, it dispels diseases, even skin diseases, spider poisoning, and the like.
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On the first day, the dose is one mustard seed; on the second, two mustard seeds; / on the third, the fourth, and likewise on the fifth day,
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and on the sixth and seventh days, one should increase it by gradual increase. / With a dose of seven mustard seeds, the first seven-day period is completed.
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In the same manner, with a gradual decrease in the [next] fortnight, is the second seven-day period of aconite. / A dose of barley-corn size of aconite should be given gradually in the third seven-day period.
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It should be given in increase and decrease likewise in the fourth seven-day period. / A healthy person may swallow a dose of one barley-corn; one who has skin disease, however, a dose of one guñjā.
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One who is eighty years old, or one who is eight years old: / aconite should not be given to him; if given, it causes harm.
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He should give it in all diseases to one who eats moderately and wholesomely. / A milk diet should be prescribed for a man devoted to rejuvenative therapy.
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Celibacy is indeed paramount; he should observe it during the course of aconite treatment. / Remaining composed in mind regarding wholesome regimen, then success [comes] without a doubt.
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When a mortal, through negligence, ingests aconite exceeding the proper dose, / eight toxic impulses then arise in him; there is no doubt of this.
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In the first impulse, there is agitation; in the second, there is trembling; / in the third, there is severe burning; in the fourth, falling to the ground;
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frothing in the fifth impulse; in the sixth, there is loss of control; / stupor in the seventh impulse; and in the eighth, death occurs.
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Having recognised the toxic impulses, one should destroy them with mantras and rituals. / Emanating from the mouth of Sadāśiva for the welfare of practitioners,
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the supreme mantra is proclaimed for the destruction of all poisons:
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"Oṃ, obeisance to the Blessed One Ghoṇeyan! Take away, take away! Pierce, pierce! Rend, rend! Cross over, cross over! Restrain, restrain! Strike down, strike down! Vaḥ vaḥ! Laḥ laḥ! Raṃ raṃ! Lāṃ lāṃ lāṃ! Haralāṃ! Take away, take away! O Being, glide! Rāṃ rāṃ! Kṣīṃ kṣīṃ! Hīṃ hīṃ! O Blessed Lady, glorious Ghoṇeyan! Saṃ saṃ saṃ! Bestow a boon, bestow a boon, O essence! Dha, bestow a boon, bestow a boon, cut and transform, hrīṃ! O bird, proclaim welfare for humankind! O enemy of Śeṣa, O enemy of Śeṣa! Ṣaṣaḥ svāhā!"
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By the mere recollection of this spell, skin eruptions and the like are destroyed. / With water recited over seven times, one should sprinkle a person afflicted by death;
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he rises up rapidly. One should wear it by tying it into one's topknot. / If one sounds a kettle-drum with a conch consecrated three times with this mantra,
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it immediately renders [a person] free of poison even in a foreign land or in the body. / When the mantra-practitioner, having seen the poison, recites the mantra once, / having seen [him], it becomes devoid of poison, even against a hundred killers.
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From drinking cow's ghee, vandhyakarkoṭī dispels diverse poison; / and triśūlikā and surabhijihvā alleviate all complications of poison.
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<Calcination of Aconite>
Aconite is calcined simply by grinding it with blue vitriol and borax. / If one ingests an excessive amount, he should then drink ghee with borax.
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Aconite must never be given nor consumed in a public dispute; / however, it may be ingested by the teacher to instil conviction in a student.
Linked texts (1)
- Rasamañjarī — Śālinātha, Sanskrit