[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Garudapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda) › 1.166 # Garudapurana 1.166 Garuḍapurāṇa 1.166 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [1.166.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.53) — 1 part ### [1.166.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.1) śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 166 dhanvantariruvāca / vātavyādhinidānaṃ te vakṣye suśruta tacchṛṇu / sarvathānarthakathane vighna eva ca kāraṇam // > The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa—166 / Dhanvantari said: / I shall explain to you the diagnosis of wind diseases, O Suśruta; listen to that! / For obstruction alone is the cause in the statement of all harmful conditions. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.2) adṛṣṭaduṣṭapavanaśarīramaviśeṣataḥ / sa viśvakarmā viśvātmā viśvarūpaḥ prajāpatiḥ // > The unseen, vitiated wind pervades the body indiscriminately; / it is Viśvakarman, the soul of all, of universal form, Prajāpati, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.3) sraṣṭā dhātā vibhurviṣṇuḥ saṃhartā mṛtyurantakaḥ / tadvaduktaṃ ca yatnena yatitavyamataḥ sadā // > the creator, sustainer, omnipresent Viṣṇu, destroyer, Death, and the end-maker. / Thus it is declared, and therefore effort should always be made with care. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.4) tasyokte doṣavijñāne karma prākṛtavaikṛtam / samāsavyāsato doṣabhedānāmavadhārya ca // > When knowledge of its defect is stated, the natural and abnormal functions \[are understood\]; / and having comprehended the varieties of defects collectively and individually, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.5) pratyekaṃ pañcadhā vīro vyāpāraśceha vaikṛtaḥ / tasyocyate vibhāgena sanidānaṃ salakṣaṇam // > the abnormal activity of this powerful \[wind\] is fivefold in each case; / it is described here divided with its diagnosis and symptoms. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.6) dhātukṣayakarairvāyuḥ kruddho nātiniṣevyate / catuḥ snoto 'vakāśeṣu bhūyastānyeva pūrayet // > When wind is provoked by things causing depletion of the bodily tissues, it does not remain subdued; / it repeatedly fills the spaces of the channels. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.7) tebhyastu doṣapūrṇebhyaḥ pracchādya vivaraṃ tataḥ / tava vāyuḥ sakṛtkruddhaḥ śūlānāhāntrakūjanam // > Covering the aperture after they are filled with the defect, / your wind, once provoked, produces colic, abdominal distension, rumbling in the bowels, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.8) malarodhaṃ svarabhraṃśaṃ dṛṣṭipṛṣṭhakaṭigraham / karotyeva punaḥ kāye kṛcchrānanyānupadravān // > retention of feces, loss of voice, stiffness of vision, back, and waist; / and it indeed produces other difficult complications in the body: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.9) āmāśayotthavamathuśvāsakāsaviṣūcikāḥ / kaṇḍūparodhagharmādivyādhīnūrdhvañca nābhitaḥ // > vomiting arising from the stomach, asthma, cough, cholera, / itching, obstruction, sweat, and other diseases above the navel; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.10) śrotrādīndriyabādhāṃ ca tvaci sphoṭanarūkṣatām / cakretīvrarujāśvāsagarāmayavivarṇatāḥ // > affliction of the sense faculties such as the ear, cracking and dryness in the skin, / it causes acute pain, dyspnea, disorders from artificial poison, and discoloration; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.11) antrasyāntañca viṣṭambhamaruciṃ kṛśatāṃ bhramam / māṃsamedogatagranthiṃ carmādāvupakarkaśam // > distension at the end of the intestine, loss of appetite, emaciation, dizziness, / tumors situated in flesh and fat, roughness on the skin and the like. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.12) gurvaṅgantudyate 'tyarthaṃ daṇḍamuṣṭihataṃ yathā / asthisthaḥ sakthisandhyasthiśūlaṃ tīvrañca lakṣayet // > A heavy limb is pricked intensely, as if struck by a stick or a fist; / situated in the bone, it indicates severe pain in the thighs, joints, and bones. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.13) majjastho 'sthiṣu cāsthairyamasvapnaṃ yattadā rujām / śukrasya śīghramutsaṅgasargānvikṛtimeva vā // > Situated in the marrow, \[it causes\] instability in the bones, sleeplessness, and continual pain; / \[situated in semen, it causes\] premature discharge, retention, or defect of the semen. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.14) tattadgarbhasthaśukrasthaḥ śirasyādhmānariktātā / tatra sthānasthitaḥ kuryāt kruddhaḥ śvayathukṛcchratām // > Affecting the semen situated in this or that embryo, \[it causes\] distension and emptiness in the head; / situated in that place, provoked, it causes swelling and distress. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.15) jalapūrṇadṛtisparśaṃ śoṣaṃ sandhigato 'nilaḥ / sarvāṅgasaṃśrayastodabhedasphuraṇabhañjanam // > The wind located in a joint feels like a water-filled bellows, causing wasting; / residing in the whole body, it causes pricking, tearing, throbbing, and crushing pain, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.16) stambhanākṣepaṇaṃ svapnaḥ sandhibhañjanakampanam / yadā tu dhamanīḥ sarvāḥ kruddho 'bhyeti muhurmuhuḥ / tadāṅgamākṣipatyeṣa vyādhirākṣepaṇaḥ smṛtaḥ // > stiffness, convulsions, sleepiness, crushing of joints, and trembling. / When, however, provoked, it repeatedly enters all the blood vessels, / then it convulses the limb; this disease is known as convulsions (ākṣepaka). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.17) adhaḥ pratihato vāyurvrajedūrdhvaṃ yadā punaḥ / tadāvaṣṭabhya hṛdayaṃ śiraḥ śaṅkhau ca pīḍayet // > When the wind, obstructed below, goes upward again, / then, seizing the heart, it afflicts the head and temples. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.18) sakṣipetparito gātraṃ hanuṃ vā cāsya nāmayat / kṛcchrāducchvasitaṃ cāpi nimīlannayanadvayam // > It convulses the limbs all around, or bends his jaw; / breathing is drawn with difficulty, and he closes both eyes. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.19) kapota iva kūjecca niḥ saṃgaḥ sopatantrakaḥ / sa eva vāmanāsāyāṃ yuktastu marutā hṛdi // > He coos like a dove and becomes unconscious; this is apatantraka. / That very wind, joined in the left nostril \[or\] in the heart, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.20) prāpnoti ca muhuḥ svāsthyaṃ muhurasvāsthyavānbhavet / abhighātasamutthaśca duścikitsyatamo mataḥ // > attains ease at times, and at other times becomes distressed; / and that which arises from trauma is considered the most difficult to cure. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.21) svedastambhaṃ tadā tasya vāyuśchinnatanuryadā / vyāpnoti sakalaṃ dehaṃ yatra cāyāmyate punaḥ // > Then there is suppression of sweat for him; when the wind, traversing the body, / pervades the entire body, where it is extended again, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.22) antardhāntugataścaiva vegastambhaṃ ca netrayoḥ / karoti jṛmbhāṃ sadanaṃ daśanānāṃ hatodyamam // > and entering the internal tissues, it causes arrest of bodily urges and stiffness of the eyes, / yawning, exhaustion, and destruction of the power of the teeth; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.23) pārśvayorvedanāṃ bāhyāṃ hanupṛṣṭhasirograham / dehasya bahirāyāmaṃ pṛṣṭhato hṛdaye śiraḥ // > external pain in both flanks, stiffness of jaw, back, and head, / bending backward of the body, the head drawn toward the back and heart, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.24) uraścotkṣipyate tatra skandho vā nāmyate tadā / danteṣvāsye ca vaivarṇyaṃ hyasvedastatra gātrataḥ // > and the chest is thrust upward there, or the shoulder is bent then; / discoloration on the teeth and mouth, and lack of sweat from the limbs. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.25) bāhyāyāmaṃ hanustambhaṃ bravate vātarogiṇam / viṇmūtramasṛjaṃ prāpya sasamīrasamīraṇāḥ? // > They declare opisthotonos (bāhyāyāma) and lockjaw (hanustambha) for the patient suffering from wind; / having reached feces, urine, and blood, the provoked winds > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.26) āyacchanti tanordeṣāḥ sarvamāpādamastakam / tiṣṭhataḥ pāṇḍumātrasya vraṇāyāmaḥ suvardhitaḥ // > stretch all regions of the body from head to foot; / in a pale person who remains \[so\], the bending due to a wound (vraṇāyāma) is greatly aggravated. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.27) gātravege bhavetsvāsthyaṃ sarveṣvākṣepaṇena tat / jihvāvilekhanāduṣṇabhakṣaṇādatimānataḥ // > In all convulsions, relief occurs during the remission of the paroxysm in the limbs. / Due to tongue-scraping, eating hot foods, and excessive pride, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.28) kupito hanumūlasthaḥ stambhayitvānilo hanum / karoti vivṛtāsyatvamathavā saṃvṛtāsyatām // > the provoked wind situated at the root of the jaw, stiffening the jaw, / causes the mouth to be either open or closed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.29) hanastambhaḥ sa tena syātkṛcchrāccarvaṇabhāṣaṇam / vāgvādinī śirāstambho jihvāṃ stambhayate 'nilaḥ // > That is lockjaw (hanustambha); by it, chewing and speaking occur with difficulty. / The wind, stiffening the vessel that conveys speech, paralyzes the tongue; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.30) jihvāstambhaḥ sa tenānnapānavākyeṣvanīśatā / śirasā bhāraharaṇādatihāsyaprabhāṣaṇāt // > that is tongue-paralysis (jihvāstambha); by it, there is inability regarding food, drink, and words. / From carrying heavy burdens on the head, from excessive laughter and talking, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.31) viṣamādupadhānācca kaṭhinānāṃ ca carvaṇāt / vāyurvivardhate taiśca vātūlairūrdhvamāsthitaḥ // > from an uneven pillow, and from chewing hard substances, / the wind increases, and situated high up due to those wind-provoking causes, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.32) vakrīkaroti vaktraṃ ca hyuccairhasitamīkṣitam / tato 'sya kurute mṛdvīṃ vākśaktiṃ stabdhanetratām // > it distorts the face, and loud laughter and gaze \[are impaired\]; / then it makes his power of speech feeble and his eyes fixed and motionless. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.33) dantacālaṃ svarabhraṃśaḥ śrutihānīkṣitagrahau / gandhājñānaṃ smṛtidhvaṃsastrāsaḥ śvāsaśca jāyate // > Looseness of teeth, loss of voice, loss of hearing, fixed gaze, / loss of smell, loss of memory, panic, and dyspnea arise, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.34) niṣṭhīvaḥ pārśvatodaśca hyekasyākṣṇo nimīlanam / jatrorūrdhvaṃ rujastīvrāḥ śarīrārdhadharo 'pi vā // > spitting, pain in the flank, closure of one eye, / acute pains above the collarbone, or paralysis affecting half the body. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.35) tamāhurarditaṃ kecidekāṅgamatha cāpare / raktamāśritya ca śirāḥ kuryānmūrdhadharāḥ śirāḥ? // > Some call that facial paralysis (ardita), while others call it monoplegia (ekāṅga). / Resorting to blood, it affects the vessels that support the head; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.36) rūkṣaḥ savedanaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ so 'sādhyaḥ syācchirograhaḥ / tanuṃ gṛhītvā vāyuśca snāyustathaiva ca // > dry, painful, and dark, that headache is incurable. / And the wind, seizing the body as well as the tendons, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.37) pakṣamanyataraṃ hanti pakṣāghātaḥ sa ucyate / kṛtsnasya kāyasyārdhaṃ syādakarmaṇyamacetanam // > destroys either flank; that is called hemiplegia (pakṣāghāta). / Half of the entire body becomes disabled and senseless. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.38) ekāṅgarogatāṃ kecidanye kakṣarujāṃ viduḥ / sarvāṅgarodhaḥ stambhaśca sarvakāyāśrite 'nile // > Some know it as monoplegia (ekāṅgaroga), others as armpit pain; / when the wind has resorted to the whole body, there is obstruction and paralysis of all limbs. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.39) śuddhavātakṛtaḥ pakṣaḥ kṛcchrasādhyatamo mataḥ / kṛcchraścānyena saṃsṛṣṭo vivṛddhaḥ kṣayahetukaḥ // > Paralysis caused by pure wind is considered the most difficult to cure; / and that combined with another \[defect\] is difficult, \[especially when\] aggravated due to tissue depletion. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.40) āmabaddhāyanaḥ kuryātsaṃstabhyāṅgaṃ kaphānvitaḥ / asādhya eva sarvo hi bhaveddaṇḍāpatānakaḥ // > With its channels obstructed by raw undigested matter (āma) and accompanied by kapha, it stiffens the limbs. / Every daṇḍāpatānaka is indeed incurable. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.41) aṃsamūlotthito vāyuḥ śirāḥ saṃkucya tatragaḥ / bahiḥ prasyanditaharaṃ janayatyeva bāhukam // > Arising from the base of the shoulder, wind situated there constricts the vessels / and brings about bāhuka, which destroys the arm's outward mobility. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.42) talaṃ pratyaṅgulīnāṃ yaḥ kaṇḍarā bāhupṛṣṭhataḥ / bāhvoḥ karmakṣayakarī vipūcī veti socyate // > That which \[afflicts\] the tendons extending towards the fingers from behind the arm, / destroying the function of the arms, is termed visūcī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.43) vāyuḥ kaṭyāśritaḥ sakthnaḥ kaṇḍarāmākṣaipedyadā / tadā khañjo bhavejjantuḥ paṅguḥ sakthnordvayorvadhāt // > When wind lodged in the hips convulses the tendon of a thigh, / a person becomes lame (khañja); when both thighs are incapacitated, he is crippled (paṅgu). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.44) kampate gamanārambhe khañjanniva ca gacchati / kalāyakhañjaṃ taṃ vidyānmuktasandhiprabandhanam // > When one trembles at the commencement of walking and walks as if limping, / one should recognize that as kalāyakhañja, whose joint bindings are loosened. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.45) śītoṣṇadravasaṃsuṣkagurusnigdhaiśca sevitaiḥ / jīrṇājīrṇe tathāyāsakṣobhasnigdhaprajāgaraiḥ // > By indulging in foods that are cold, hot, liquid, dry, heavy, and unctuous, / during both digestion and indigestion, as well as by fatigue, agitation, unctuous substances, and night-waking, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.46) śleṣmabhedaḥ samaye paramatyarthasaṃcitam / abhibhūyetaraṃ doṣaṃ śarīraṃ pratipadyate // > the disordered kapha, greatly accumulated in its proper time, / overpowers the other dosha and spreads through the body. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.47) sakthyasthīni prapūryāntaḥ śleṣmaṇā stambhitena tat / tadāsthi snāti tenorostathā śītānilena tu // > Filling the inside of the thigh bones with immobilized kapha, / the cold wind then bathes the thigh bone. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.48) śyāmāṅgamaṅgastaimityatandrāmūrchārucijvaraiḥ / tamūrustambhamityāha bāhyavātamathāpare // > With dark limbs, numbness of limbs, drowsiness, fainting, anorexia, and fever: / they call this ūrustambha; others call it external wind (bāhyavāta). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.49) vātaśoṇitasaṃśotho jānumadhye mahārujaḥ / jñeyaḥ kroṣṭukaśīrṣastu sthūlakroṣṭukaśīrṣavat // > A painful swelling caused by wind and blood in the middle of the knee / should be known as kroṣṭukaśīrṣa, resembling the large head of a jackal. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.50) rukpādaviṣamanyaste śramādvā jāyate yadā / vātena gulphamākṣitya tamāhurvātakaṇṭakam // > When pain arises in the foot placed unevenly or from exhaustion / due to wind seizing the ankle, they call that vātakaṇṭaka. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.51) pārṣṇipratyaṅgulīnābhau kaṇṭhe vā mārutārdite / satikṣepaṃ nigṛhṇāti gṛdhrasīṃ tāṃ pracakṣate // > When wind afflicts the tendons of the heel or toes, or the throat, / seizing them with shooting pain, they declare that to be gṛdhrasī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.52) hṛṣyete caraṇau yasya bhavetāṃ cāpi suptakau / pādaharṣaḥ sa vijñeyaḥ kaphamārutakopajaḥ // > One whose feet tingle and also become numb / should be known as having pādaharṣa, born of the aggravation of kapha and wind. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.53) pādayoḥ kurute dāhaṃ pittāsṛksahito 'nilaḥ / viśeṣataścaṅkramataḥ pādadāhaṃ tamādiśet // > Wind combined with pitta and blood produces a burning sensation in the feet, / especially when walking; one should designate that as pādadāha. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.166.53.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166.53.p1) iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe pūrvakhaṇḍe prathamāṃśākhye ācārakāṇḍe vātavyādhinidānaṃ nāma ṣaṭūṣaṣṭyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ > Thus ends the one hundred and sixty-sixth chapter, named 'Diagnosis of Wind Diseases', in the section on conduct, the first part of the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.166.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (6) - [Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangahrdaya.3010) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit - [Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.15.18_2) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit - [Bhāvaprakāśa (another edition)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.bhavaprakasa*alt.3.2-21.25) — Sanskrit - [Āyurvedadīpikā (Carakatātparyaṭīkā) (ed. Yādavjī Trikamjī Ācārya, 1981 printing)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka!cakrapani*jadavji.6.28.13.1) — Sanskrit - [Cikitsāsārasaṅgraha (Vaṅgasena)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.vangasena.31.99) — Vaṅgasena, Sanskrit - [Yogaratnākara (Mayūrapāda Bhikṣu)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.yogaratnakara-mayurapada-bhiksu.261.1) — Mayūrapāda Bhikṣu 1700, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.166) · Pramāṇa