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# Garudapurana 1.163

Garuḍapurāṇa 1.163

- **Language:** Sanskrit

## Contents

- [1.163.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.24) — 1 part

### [1.163.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.1)

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 163  
dhanvantīraruvāca /  
visarpādinidānante vakṣye suśruta tacchṛṇu /  
syādvisarpo vighātāttu doṣairduṣṭaiśca śothavat //

> The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 163  
> Dhanvantari said:  
> I shall tell you the diagnosis of erysipelas and other diseases, Suśruta; listen to that!  
> Erysipelas arises from trauma and from vitiated doṣas, like swelling.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.2)

adhiṣṭhānañca taṃ prāhurbāhyaṃ tatra bhayācchramāt /  
yathāttarañca duḥ sādhyastatra doṣo yathāyatham //

> They declare its location to be external; there, from fear or exertion,  
> and in progressive order it is difficult to cure; there the doṣas act according to their nature.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.3)

prakopanaiḥ prakupitā viśeṣeṇa vidāhibhiḥ /  
dehe śīghraṃ viśantīha te 'ntare hi sthitā bahiḥ //

> Aggravated by aggravating factors, especially burning foods,  
> those \[doṣas\] situated on the exterior enter swiftly into the interior of the body.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.4)

tṛṣṇābhiyogādvegānāṃ viṣamācca pravartanāt /  
āśu cāgnibalabhraṃśādato bāhyaṃ visarpayet //

> From the onslaught of thirst, the irregular functioning of natural urges,  
> and the rapid loss of digestive power, it spreads to the exterior.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.5)

tatra vātātsa vīsarpo vātajvarasamavyathaḥ /  
śothasphuraṇanistodabhedāyāsārtiharṣavān //

> Among them, that erysipelas from vāta has pain equal to vāta fever,  
> with swelling, throbbing, pricking pain, tearing pain, exhaustion, aching, and horripilation.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.6)

pittāddrutagatiḥ pittajvaraliṅgo 'tilohitaḥ /  
kaphātkaṇḍūyutaḥ snigdhaḥ kaphajvarasamānaruk //

> From pitta it moves rapidly, has the signs of pitta fever, and is very red.  
> From kapha it is accompanied by itching, is unctuous, with pain equal to kapha fever.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.7)

sannipātasamutthāśca sarvaliṅgasamanvitāḥ /  
svadoṣaliṅgaiścīyante sarvaiḥ sphoṭairupekṣitāḥ /  
te 'pi svedānvimuñcati bibhrato vraṇalakṣaṇam //

> Those arising from the combination of all three doṣas are accompanied by all signs;  
> neglected, they are covered with blisters showing signs of all their respective doṣas;  
> they also discharge sweat, bearing the marks of an ulcer.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.8)

vātapittājjvaracchardimūrchātīsāratṛḍbhramaiḥ /  
ganthibhedāgnisadanatamakārocakairyutaḥ //

> From vāta and pitta, it is accompanied by fever, vomiting, fainting, diarrhoea, thirst, dizziness,  
> splitting pain in the joints, decline of digestive fire, feeling of darkness, and anorexia.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.9)

karoti sarvamaṅgañca dīptāṅgārāvakīrṇavat /  
yaṃyaṃ deśaṃ visarpaśca visarpati bhavetsasaḥ //

> It makes the entire limb appear as if scattered over with glowing embers.  
> Whichever region the erysipelas spreads to, that region becomes:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.10)

śāntāṅgārāsito nīlo rakto vāsu ca cīyate /  
agnidagdha iva sphoṭaiḥ śīghragatvāddrutaṃ sa ca //

> Black like extinguished charcoal, blue, or red, and it is swiftly covered  
> with blisters as if burnt by fire; and moving rapidly, that \[erysipelas\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.11)

marmānusārī vīsarpaḥ syādvāto 'tibalastataḥ /  
vyathate 'ṅgaṃ haretsaṃjñāṃ nidrāñca śvāsamīrayet //

> Spreads following the vital points; then vāta becomes exceedingly strong.  
> The body is in agony; it takes away consciousness and sleep, and provokes dyspnoea  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.12)

hikkāñca sa gato 'vasthāmīdṛśīṃ labhate naraḥ /  
kvacinmarmāratigrasto bhūmiśayyāsanādiṣu //

> And hiccup. Having reached such a state, a person  
> seized anywhere with distress in the vital points, tossing about  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.13)

ceṣṭamānastataḥ kliṣṭo manodehapramohavān /  
duṣprabodho 'śnute nidrāṃ so 'gnivīsarpa ucyate //

> Upon the ground, bed, seat, and the like, afflicted, with delusion of mind and body,  
> falls into a sleep difficult to awake from; that is called agnivīsarpa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.14)

kaphena ruddhaḥ pavano bhittvātaṃ bahudhā kapham /  
raktaṃ vā vṛddharaktasya tvakchirāsnāyumāṃsagam //

> Wind blocked by kapha, splitting that kapha into many parts,  
> or the blood in a person with aggravated blood, entering the skin, vessels, sinews, and flesh,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.15)

dūṣayitvā tu dīrghānuvṛttasthūlakharātmikām /  
granthīnāṃ kurute mālāṃ saraktāntīvrarugjvarām //

> And corrupting them, produces a garland of nodules that are elongated, rounded, thick, and rough,  
> accompanied by blood, intense pain, and fever;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.16)

śvāsakāsātisārāsyaśoṣahikkāvamibhramaiḥ /  
mohavaivarṇyamūrchāṅgabhaṅgagnisadanairyutām /  
ityayaṃ granthivīsarpaḥ kaphamārutakopajaḥ //

> Accompanied by dyspnoea, cough, diarrhoea, dryness of the mouth, hiccup, vomiting, dizziness,  
> delusion, discolouration, fainting, aching of the limbs, and loss of digestive power.  
> Thus this is granthivīsarpa, born from the aggravation of kapha and wind.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.17)

kaphapittājjvaraḥ stambho nidrā tandrā śirorujā /  
aṅgāvasādavikṣeṃpau pralāpārocakabhramāḥ //

> From kapha and pitta, there is fever, stiffness, sleep, drowsiness, headache,  
> prostration of limbs, restlessness, delirium, anorexia, dizziness,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.18)

mūrchāgnihānirbhedo 'sthnāṃ pipāsendriyagauravam /  
āmopaveśanaṃ lepaḥ srotasāṃ sa ca sarpati //

> Fainting, loss of digestive fire, splitting pain in the bones, thirst, heaviness of sense-organs,  
> passage of undigested stool, and coating of the channels; and it spreads,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.19)

prāyeṇāmāśayaṃ gṛhṇannekadeśaṃ na cātiruk /  
pīḍakairavakīrṇo 'tipītalohitapāṇḍuraiḥ //

> Mostly seizing the stomach, in a single region, not excessively painful,  
> covered with pustules that are intensely yellow, red, and pale;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.20)

snidhno 'sito mecakābho malinaḥ śothavānguruḥ /  
gambhīrapākaḥ prāyoṣmaspṛṣṭaḥ klinnoṃ'vadīryate //

> Unctuous, dark, blackish-blue, dirty, swollen, heavy,  
> with deep suppuration, mostly touched with heat, moist, and cracking open;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.21)

pakvavacchīrṇamāṃsaśca spaṣṭasnāyuśirāgaṇaḥ /  
sarvago lakṣaṇaiḥ sarveḥ sarvagatvaksamarpaṇaḥ /  
śavagandhī ca vīsarpaḥ kardamākhyamuśanti tam //

> Its flesh sloughed away as if cooked, its network of sinews and vessels exposed,  
> spreading everywhere with all symptoms, extending across the entire skin,  
> and smelling like a corpse: this erysipelas they call kardama.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.22)

bāhyahetoḥ kṣatātkruddhvaḥ saraktaṃ pittamīrayan /  
vīsarpaṃ mārutaḥ kuryātkulatthasadṛśaiścitam //

> Aggravated by an external cause, a wound, wind stirring up pitta along with blood,  
> produces erysipelas covered with \[eruptions\] resembling kulattha beans,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.23)

sphoṭaiḥ śothajvararujādāhāḍhyaṃ śyāvaśoṇitam /  
pathagdoṣaistrayaḥ sādhyā dvandvajāścānupadravāḥ //

> With blisters, abundant in swelling, fever, pain, and burning, with blackish-red blood.  
> Those caused by individual doṣas are three, curable, as are those born of two doṣas without complications.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.24)

asādhyāḥ kṛtasarvotthāḥ sarve cākrāntamarmaṇaḥ /  
śīrṇasnāyuśirāmāṃsāḥ klinnāścaśavagandhayaḥ //

> Incurable are those arising from all three \[doṣas\], and all those that have invaded vital points,  
> whose sinews, vessels, and flesh are sloughed, and which are moist and smell like a corpse.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.163.24.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.163.24.p1)

iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe pūrvakhaṇḍe prathamāṃśākhye ācārakāṇḍe vīsarpanidānaṃ nāma tripaṣṭyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

> Thus ends the one hundred and sixty-third chapter, named “Diagnosis of Erysipelas”, in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part in the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.163.1) — English, machine translation

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- [Gadanigraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.gadanigraha.53.7) — Soḍhala, Sanskrit
- [Mādhavacikitsā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.nidana.madhavacikitsa.64.5) — Mādhava Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Yogaratnākara (Mayūrapāda Bhikṣu)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.yogaratnakara-mayurapada-bhiksu.137.1-10) — Mayūrapāda Bhikṣu 1700, Sanskrit

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