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"vīrakārye" in manuscript kha. ### [284.2.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.2.p3) 2. "ekanāmātha sarthakam" in manuscripts kha and ña. ### [284.2.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.2.p4) 3. "sarvavyādhivināśakān" in manuscript kha. / \[Page 50\] ### [284.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.3) Emblic myrobalan, chebulic myrobalan, black pepper, and leadwort destroy all fevers. / Bilva, agnimantha, śyonāka, kāśmarya, pāṭalā, sthirā, ### [284.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.4) trikaṇṭaka, pṛśniparṇī, bṛhatī, and kaṇṭakārī, / \[along with\] root of kuśa grass, remove fever, indigestion, flank pain, and cough. ### [284.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.5) Guḍūcī, parpaṭī, mustā, kirātatikta, and ginger: / this is remembered as "the five auspicious remedies," to be given in fever caused by vāta and pitta. ### [284.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.6) Prepared with trivṛt, indravāruṇī, kaṭukā, triphalā, and āragvadha, / a purgative decoction should be drunk; it dispels all fevers. ### [284.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.7) 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. ### [284.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.8) With daśamūla, śaṭī, rāsnā, pippalī, bilva, puṣkaramūla, / śṛṅgī, āmalakī, bhārgī, guḍūcī, and betel leaves, ### [284.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.9) 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. ### [284.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.10) Licorice mixed with honey, long pepper combined with sugar, / ginger combined with jaggery, \[or\] the three salts: these destroy hiccups. ### [284.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.11) Black cumin, cumin, black pepper, raisins, kokum, pomegranate, / black salt, jaggery, and honey destroy all loss of appetite. ### [284.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.12) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.13) Banyan, śṛṅgī, red ochre, lodhra, pomegranate, licorice, and honey: / one should drink \[this\] with rice water; it dispels vomiting and thirst. ### [284.13.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.13.p1) \[Notes\] ### [284.13.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.13.p2) 1. "devadārubalārāsnātriphalāvyoṣapadmakaiḥ" in manuscript kha. / \[Page 51\] ### [284.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.14) Guḍūcī, vāsā, and lodhra, combined with long pepper and honey, / conquer \[bleeding\] accompanied by kapha and dispel thirst, cough, and fever. ### [284.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.15) Likewise, juice of vāsā, \[and\] ash of copper with honey; / black pepper macerated in the juice of siris flowers and holy basil is beneficial. ### [284.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.16) Lentils remove all pain; and spiny amaranth releases pitta; / nirguṇḍī, śārivā, śelu, and aṅkoṭha remove poison. ### [284.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.17) Ginger, guḍūcī, kaṇṭakārī, puṣkaramūla, and pippalīmūla: / one should drink the decoction mixed with pippalī in cases of fainting and intoxications. ### [284.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.18) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.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, ### [284.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.21) clarified butter prepared along with karañja is considered the "Vajraka" \[ghee\], which cures skin diseases. / Neem, paṭola, kaṇṭakārī, guḍūcī, and vāsā: ### [284.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.22) one should make portions of ten palas of each, crushed; / it is to be boiled in a droṇa of water until one quarter remains. ### [284.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.23) 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). ### [284.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.24) Eighty diseases born of vāta, forty born of pitta, ### [284.24.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.24.p1) \[Notes\] ### [284.24.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.24.p2) 1. "vaṅkolaś ca" in kha, ña, ca ### [284.24.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.24.p3) 2. "puṣpakam iti" in ja ### [284.24.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.24.p4) 3. "granthilodbhavam iti" in kha ### [284.24.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.24.p5) 4. "triphalāśarkarāyutam iti" in kha, ña, ca / page 52 ### [284.24\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.24_2) and twenty born of phlegm (śleṣman), as well as cough, chronic catarrh, piles, ulcers, and the like— ### [284.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.25) 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, ### [284.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.26) one should wash ulcers to alleviate venereal sores (upadaṃśa); / or with powder of leaves of paṭola or powder of pomegranate bark, ### [284.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.27) one should dust \[the wound\], or with gaja, or with triphalā powder. / With triphalā, iron powder, liquorice, bhṛṅgarāja, blue water-lily, and black pepper, ### [284.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.28) 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, ### [284.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.29) one should cook a kuḍava of oil; used as nasal drops, it cures greying hair. / Neem, paṭola, triphalā, guḍūcī, khadira, and vāsaka, ### [284.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.30) or bhūnimba, pāṭhā, triphalā, guḍūcī, and red sandalwood— / these two formulations destroy fever, skin disease (kuṣṭha), eruptions, and the like. ### [284.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.31) A decoction of paṭola, amṛtā, bhūnimba, vāsā, ariṣṭaka, and parpaṭa, / ending with khadira, brings about the alleviation of eruptions and fever. ### [284.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.32) Daśamūlī, chinnaruhā, pathyā, devadāru, and punarnavā, / along with śigru and viśvabheṣaja, are beneficial in fever, abscesses, and swellings. ### [284.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.33) A paste of madhūka and neem leaves cleanses ulcers. / Triphalā, khadira, dārvī, banyan, atibalā, and kuśa grass, ### [284.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.34) decoctions of neem root and leaves are beneficial for cleansing. / The juice of karañja, ariṣṭa, and nirguṇḍī destroys maggots in ulcers. ### [284.34.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.34.p1) \[Notes\] ### [284.34.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.34.p2) 1. "guṇḍayennagajenāpīti" in kha, ña, ca / page 53 ### [284.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.35) A paste made with dhātakī, sandalwood, balā, samaṅgā, madhuka, blue water-lily, / dārvī, and medā, combined with clarified butter, heals ulcers. ### [284.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.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. ### [284.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.41) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.42) digests āmavāta and lumbar colic, and destroys pain. / Oil prepared from the roots, leaves, and branches of prasāraṇī, ### [284.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.43) or the fresh juice, paste, powder, or decoction of guḍūcī, / taken for a long time, frees one from gout (vātaśoṇita). ### [284.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.44) Or an increasing dose of long pepper should be taken, or pathyā with jaggery. / Prepared with paṭola, triphalā, intense kaṭukā, and asṛt, ### [284.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.45) boiled and drunk, it quickly overcomes vātaśoṇita accompanied by burning sensations. ### [284.45.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.45.p1) \[Notes\] ### [284.45.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.45.p2) 1. "kaphavātavināśinīm iti" in ja ### [284.45.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.45.p3) 2. "trikaṭutriphalākuṣṭham iti" in ña ### [284.45.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.45.p4) 3. "paṭolatriphalābhirukaṭukāmṛtasādhitam iti" in kha, cha, ña, ca / page 54 ### [284.45\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.45_2) Guggulu with lukewarm or cold water, or with water of guḍūcī and triphalā, ### [284.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.46) or drunk with balā, punarnavā, castor, the two bṛhatīs, and gokṣura, / along with asafoetida and salts, immediately dispels pain from vāta. ### [284.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.47) A karṣa each of long pepper root, the five salts, / long pepper, citraka, dry ginger, triphalā, trivṛt, and vacā, ### [284.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.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. ### [284.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.49) 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. ### [284.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.50) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.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, ### [284.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.55) 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. ### [284.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.56) Cooked with pāṭhā, nikumbha, trikaṭu, triphalā, and citraka, ### [284.56.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.56.p1) \[Notes\] ### [284.56.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.56.p2) 1. "ktoṣṭuśīte 'theti" in kha / page 55 ### [284.56\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.56_2) a powder or pill taken with urine crushes abdominal tumors (gulma), spleen diseases, and the like. ### [284.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.57) Vāsā, neem, and paṭola with triphalā remove vāta and pitta. / One should lick viḍaṅga powder with honey to destroy parasites. ### [284.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.58) Harītakī with viḍaṅga, rock salt, and alkali, or with urine; / barks of śallakī, vadarī, jambu, piyāla, mango, and arjuna, ### [284.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.59) drunk individually with milk and smeared with honey, arrest bleeding. / Equal parts of vilva, mango, dhātakī, pāṭhā, dry ginger, and mocārasa, ### [284.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.60) drunk with jaggery and buttermilk, check obstinate diarrhoea. / Combined with cāṅgerī, jujube fruit, curd-water, dry ginger, and alkali, ### [284.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.61) a decocted potion mixed with ghee relieves pain in prolapse of the rectum. / Viḍaṅga, ativiṣā, mustā, devadāru, pāṭhā, and holarrhena seeds, ### [284.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.62) combined with black pepper, destroy swellings and diarrhoea. / With sugar, rock salt, and dry ginger, or with long pepper, honey, and jaggery, ### [284.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.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. ### [284.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.64) 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. ### [284.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.65) With equal parts of flour of black gram, long pepper, rice, / barley, and wheat, one should prepare a wholesome cake. ### [284.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.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. ### [284.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.67) Samaṅgā, dhātakī flowers, lodhra, and blue water lily— ### [284.67.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.67.p1) \[Footnote\] ### [284.67.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.67.p2) 1. "Triphalā cures acid dyspepsia" in Kha and Ña. \[Page 56\] ### [284.67\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.67_2) this should be administered with milk to women to destroy menorrhagia. ### [284.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.68) Seeds of kuraṇṭaka, madhuka, white sandalwood, roots of lotus and blue water lily, licorice, sugar, and sesame seeds ### [284.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.69) provide the best stabilization of the fetus when the embryo is slipping away. Devadāru, nabhas, kuṣṭha, spikenard, and dry ginger, ### [284.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.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. ### [284.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.71) 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; ### [284.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.72) ghee along with triphalā is unsurpassed in destroying cataracts. A man should drink ghee prepared with triphalā, the three pungents, and rock salt; ### [284.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.73) 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, ### [284.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.74) 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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.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. ### [284.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.76) 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; ### [284.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.77) this purgative called Nārāca is superior and destroys all diseases. ### [284.77.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.77.p1) \[Footnote\] ### [284.77.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.77.p2) 1. "kṛṣṇam" in Kha. ### [284.77.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.77.p3) 2. "kuṣṭham" in Ña. ### [284.77.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.77.p4) 3. "pathyāsaindhavakuṣṭhānām" in Kha. \[Page 57\] ### [284.77\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.77_2) These proven formulations, shown to the sages by Ātreya, ### [284.77\_3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.77_3) destroy all diseases and are the foremost among all formulations \[recorded\] by Suśruta. ### [284.77.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.77.p5) Thus in the great Āgneya Purāṇa, the two hundred and eighty-fourth chapter, entitled "Proven Formulations Reviving the Dead." ### [284.77.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.77.p7) Now the two hundred and eighty-fifth chapter. ### [284.77.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284.77.p8) Ocean of Rejuvenation ## Other recensions (1) - [Agnipurāṇa (Nag Publishers edition, Delhi)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni*nag.284.1) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Agnipurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni.284.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni~en-mt.284) · Pramāṇa