Agnipurana 284

English (machine translation) 284

Language: English

284.2 — 4 parts
284.13 — 2 parts
284.24 — 5 parts
284.34 — 2 parts
284.45 — 4 parts
284.56 — 2 parts
284.67 — 2 parts
284.77 — 7 parts

284.1

Dhanvantari said: / I shall further declare proven recipes that revive the dead, / divine remedies spoken by Ātreya that crush all diseases.

284.2

Ātreya said: / A decoction of the five roots beginning with bilva is [prescribed] in fever of vāta origin; / or pure long pepper root, guḍūcī, and dried ginger.

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2. "ekanāmātha sarthakam" in manuscripts kha and ña.

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3. "sarvavyādhivināśakān" in manuscript kha. / [Page 50]

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Emblic myrobalan, chebulic myrobalan, black pepper, and leadwort destroy all fevers. / Bilva, agnimantha, śyonāka, kāśmarya, pāṭalā, sthirā,

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trikaṇṭaka, pṛśniparṇī, bṛhatī, and kaṇṭakārī, / [along with] root of kuśa grass, remove fever, indigestion, flank pain, and cough.

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Guḍūcī, parpaṭī, mustā, kirātatikta, and ginger: / this is remembered as "the five auspicious remedies," to be given in fever caused by vāta and pitta.

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Prepared with trivṛt, indravāruṇī, kaṭukā, triphalā, and āragvadha, / a purgative decoction should be drunk; it dispels all fevers.

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Devadāru, balā, vāsā, triphalā, the three pungents, and padmaka, / along with viḍaṅga, with sugar equal to the whole: that powder cures the five kinds of cough.

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With daśamūla, śaṭī, rāsnā, pippalī, bilva, puṣkaramūla, / śṛṅgī, āmalakī, bhārgī, guḍūcī, and betel leaves,

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or a decoction prepared properly from barley groats, a man should drink / for the relief of cough, heart disease, chronic diarrhoea, flank pain, hiccups, and asthma.

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Licorice mixed with honey, long pepper combined with sugar, / ginger combined with jaggery, [or] the three salts: these destroy hiccups.

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Black cumin, cumin, black pepper, raisins, kokum, pomegranate, / black salt, jaggery, and honey destroy all loss of appetite.

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And one should administer fresh ginger juice along with honey; / it cures loss of appetite, asthma, and cough, and ends catarrh and kapha disorders.

284.13

Banyan, śṛṅgī, red ochre, lodhra, pomegranate, licorice, and honey: / one should drink [this] with rice water; it dispels vomiting and thirst.

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1. "devadārubalārāsnātriphalāvyoṣapadmakaiḥ" in manuscript kha. / [Page 51]

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Guḍūcī, vāsā, and lodhra, combined with long pepper and honey, / conquer [bleeding] accompanied by kapha and dispel thirst, cough, and fever.

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Likewise, juice of vāsā, [and] ash of copper with honey; / black pepper macerated in the juice of siris flowers and holy basil is beneficial.

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Lentils remove all pain; and spiny amaranth releases pitta; / nirguṇḍī, śārivā, śelu, and aṅkoṭha remove poison.

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Ginger, guḍūcī, kaṇṭakārī, puṣkaramūla, and pippalīmūla: / one should drink the decoction mixed with pippalī in cases of fainting and intoxications.

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One āḍhaka of clarified butter with asafoetida, black salt, and the three pungents, two palas of each, / boiled down in four times as much cow's urine, destroys madness.

284.19

[Ghee] prepared with śaṅkhapuṣpī, vacā, and kuṣṭha, combined with juice of brāhmī, / aged, destroys epilepsy along with insanity; it is supreme for intellect.

284.20

Clarified butter [prepared with] the five products of the cow, likewise, combined with chebulic myrobalan, cures skin diseases. / With paṭola, triphalā, neem, guḍūcī, dhāvanī, and vāsā,

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clarified butter prepared along with karañja is considered the "Vajraka" [ghee], which cures skin diseases. / Neem, paṭola, kaṇṭakārī, guḍūcī, and vāsā:

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one should make portions of ten palas of each, crushed; / it is to be boiled in a droṇa of water until one quarter remains.

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With that, one should cook a prastha of ghee containing a paste of triphalā. / This clarified butter, renowned as pañcatikta, is the destroyer of skin disease (kuṣṭha).

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Eighty diseases born of vāta, forty born of pitta,

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4. "triphalāśarkarāyutam iti" in kha, ña, ca / page 52

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and twenty born of phlegm (śleṣman), as well as cough, chronic catarrh, piles, ulcers, and the like—

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this king of formulations truly destroys these and others, just as the sun dispels darkness. / With a decoction of triphalā and the juice of bhṛṅgarāja,

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one should wash ulcers to alleviate venereal sores (upadaṃśa); / or with powder of leaves of paṭola or powder of pomegranate bark,

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one should dust [the wound], or with gaja, or with triphalā powder. / With triphalā, iron powder, liquorice, bhṛṅgarāja, blue water-lily, and black pepper,

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along with rock salt, one should cook oil; applied by massage, it cures vomiting. / With juice of bhṛṅgarāja mixed with milk, two prasthas of madhuka and blue water-lily,

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one should cook a kuḍava of oil; used as nasal drops, it cures greying hair. / Neem, paṭola, triphalā, guḍūcī, khadira, and vāsaka,

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or bhūnimba, pāṭhā, triphalā, guḍūcī, and red sandalwood— / these two formulations destroy fever, skin disease (kuṣṭha), eruptions, and the like.

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A decoction of paṭola, amṛtā, bhūnimba, vāsā, ariṣṭaka, and parpaṭa, / ending with khadira, brings about the alleviation of eruptions and fever.

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Daśamūlī, chinnaruhā, pathyā, devadāru, and punarnavā, / along with śigru and viśvabheṣaja, are beneficial in fever, abscesses, and swellings.

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A paste of madhūka and neem leaves cleanses ulcers. / Triphalā, khadira, dārvī, banyan, atibalā, and kuśa grass,

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decoctions of neem root and leaves are beneficial for cleansing. / The juice of karañja, ariṣṭa, and nirguṇḍī destroys maggots in ulcers.

284.34.p2

1. "guṇḍayennagajenāpīti" in kha, ña, ca / page 53

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A paste made with dhātakī, sandalwood, balā, samaṅgā, madhuka, blue water-lily, / dārvī, and medā, combined with clarified butter, heals ulcers.

284.36

Guggulu, triphalā, and vyoṣa in equal parts, combined with ghee, / will cure sinus tract (nāḍī), malignant ulcers, colic, and fistula-in-ano.

284.37

One should consume every morning harītakī cooked in urine, / combined with oil and salt; it dispels diseases of kapha and vāta.

284.38

One should drink a decoction of trikaṭu and triphalā with alkali and salt; / it is a purgative in conditions of kapha and vāta that removes increases in kapha.

284.39

Or one should drink a draught decocted with long pepper, root of long pepper, / vacā, citraka, and dry ginger, which destroys rheumatoid conditions (āmavāta).

284.40

One should drink rāsnā, guḍūcī, castor, devadāru, and dry ginger / in vāta affecting all limbs, accompanied by āma, and located in joints, bones, and marrow.

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Or one should drink a decoction of daśamūla, or drink it with ginger-water. / A decoction of dry ginger and gokṣura taken every morning

284.42

digests āmavāta and lumbar colic, and destroys pain. / Oil prepared from the roots, leaves, and branches of prasāraṇī,

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or the fresh juice, paste, powder, or decoction of guḍūcī, / taken for a long time, frees one from gout (vātaśoṇita).

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Or an increasing dose of long pepper should be taken, or pathyā with jaggery. / Prepared with paṭola, triphalā, intense kaṭukā, and asṛt,

284.45

boiled and drunk, it quickly overcomes vātaśoṇita accompanied by burning sensations.

284.45.p4

3. "paṭolatriphalābhirukaṭukāmṛtasādhitam iti" in kha, cha, ña, ca / page 54

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Guggulu with lukewarm or cold water, or with water of guḍūcī and triphalā,

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or drunk with balā, punarnavā, castor, the two bṛhatīs, and gokṣura, / along with asafoetida and salts, immediately dispels pain from vāta.

284.47

A karṣa each of long pepper root, the five salts, / long pepper, citraka, dry ginger, triphalā, trivṛt, and vacā,

284.48

the two alkalis, śādvalā, dantī, svarṇakṣīrī, and viṣāṇikā— / one should drink a pill the size of a jujube berry taken with sauvīraka vinegar.

Trivṛt is beneficial in the suppurative stage of swelling, and when abdominal enlargement or the like is advanced. / Milk prepared with devadāru, varṣābhū, and dry ginger is auspicious and removes swelling.

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Likewise, affusion with a decoction of arka, varṣābhū, and neem overcomes swelling. / Clarified butter prepared with vyoṣa inside, cooked in thrice the amount

284.51

of ash-water of palāśa—for one drinking it, piles fall off without doubt. / Also salt prepared with viśvaksenā and nirguṇḍī,

284.52

or pungent substances with viḍaṅga, citraka, rock salt, rāsnā, agrakṣāra, / and devadāru cooked in four times the amount of oil, or with water,

284.53

is an oil that removes cervical adenitis (gaṇḍamālā); through massage, it cures goitre. / A decoction of śaṭī, kunāga, and balā, combined with milk and meat soup,

284.54

prepared with a paste of payasyā, long pepper, and vāsā, is beneficial in wasting. / Vacā, black salt, abhayā, dry ginger, asafoetida, kuṣṭha, citraka, and carom seeds,

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in two, three, six, four, one, seven, and five parts respectively— / the powder drunk destroys abdominal tumors (gulma) and enlargement, and cures colic and cough.

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Cooked with pāṭhā, nikumbha, trikaṭu, triphalā, and citraka,

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[Notes]

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1. "ktoṣṭuśīte 'theti" in kha / page 55

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a powder or pill taken with urine crushes abdominal tumors (gulma), spleen diseases, and the like.

284.57

Vāsā, neem, and paṭola with triphalā remove vāta and pitta. / One should lick viḍaṅga powder with honey to destroy parasites.

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Harītakī with viḍaṅga, rock salt, and alkali, or with urine; / barks of śallakī, vadarī, jambu, piyāla, mango, and arjuna,

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drunk individually with milk and smeared with honey, arrest bleeding. / Equal parts of vilva, mango, dhātakī, pāṭhā, dry ginger, and mocārasa,

284.60

drunk with jaggery and buttermilk, check obstinate diarrhoea. / Combined with cāṅgerī, jujube fruit, curd-water, dry ginger, and alkali,

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a decocted potion mixed with ghee relieves pain in prolapse of the rectum. / Viḍaṅga, ativiṣā, mustā, devadāru, pāṭhā, and holarrhena seeds,

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combined with black pepper, destroy swellings and diarrhoea. / With sugar, rock salt, and dry ginger, or with long pepper, honey, and jaggery,

284.63

one should eat two harītakī fruits each time; one will live happily for a hundred years. / Likewise triphalā combined with long pepper, honey, and clarified butter.

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Powder of āmalaka macerated with its own fresh juice, / licked with honey, clarified butter, and sugar, makes one master over women; one should then drink milk.

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With equal parts of flour of black gram, long pepper, rice, / barley, and wheat, one should prepare a wholesome cake.

284.66

Having eaten it, one should drink milk sweetened with sugar; / like a young sparrow, he will certainly copulate ten times with a woman.

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Samaṅgā, dhātakī flowers, lodhra, and blue water lily—

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[Footnote]

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1. "Triphalā cures acid dyspepsia" in Kha and Ña.
[Page 56]

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this should be administered with milk to women to destroy menorrhagia.

284.68

Seeds of kuraṇṭaka, madhuka, white sandalwood,
roots of lotus and blue water lily, licorice, sugar, and sesame seeds

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provide the best stabilization of the fetus when the embryo is slipping away.
Devadāru, nabhas, kuṣṭha, spikenard, and dry ginger,

284.70

applied as a paste with fermented sour gruel and ambaṣṭhā, combined with oil, relieves headache.
Warm rock-salt water filtered through cloth and dropped [into the ear] relieves earache.

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The separate juices of garlic, ginger, and śigru, or of banana, [relieve earache].
One should drink balā, śatāvarī, rāsnā, and amṛtā, or with mairīyaka wine;

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ghee along with triphalā is unsurpassed in destroying cataracts.
A man should drink ghee prepared with triphalā, the three pungents, and rock salt;

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it is beneficial to the eyes, purgative, pleasing to the heart, digestive, and relieves phlegm disorders.
The filaments of a blue water lily mixed with the juice of cow dung,

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formed into a pill for collyrium, is beneficial for day-blindness and night-blindness.
With a paste of licorice, vacā, black pepper, and seeds of kuṭaja,

284.75

stirred into a decoction of neem, [the formulation] serves to induce vomiting.
To one who has been lubricated and sweated, purgative barley-water should be administered.

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Applied otherwise, it causes sluggish digestion, heaviness, and loss of appetite.
One should drink the powder of harītakī, rock salt, and pippalī with hot water;