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Garudapurana 1.187

Garuḍapurāṇa 1.187

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1.187.1

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 187
hariruvāca /
hastikarṇapalāśasya patrāṇi? cūrṇayeddhara /
sarvarogavinirmuktaṃ cūrṇaṃ palaśataṃ śiva //

Hari said: / One should powder the leaves of the hastikarṇapalāśa, O Hara; / one hundred palas of this powder freed from all diseases, O Śiva,

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1.187.2

sakṣīraṃ bhakṣītaṃ kuryātsaptāhena vṛṣadhvaja /
naraṃ śrutidharaṃ rudra mṛgendragativikramam //

eaten with milk makes a man within seven days, O Bull-bannered One, / capable of retaining what he hears, O Rudra, with the gait and valor of a lion,

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1.187.3

padmarāgapratīkāśaṃyuktaṃ daśaśatāyuṣā /
ṣoḍaśābdākṛtiṃ rudra satataṃ dugdhabhojanāt //

having the appearance of a ruby, endowed with a lifespan of a thousand years, / having the form of a sixteen-year-old, O Rudra, through always dining on milk.

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1.187.4

madhusarpiḥsamāyuktaṃ dugdhamāyuṣkaraṃ bhavet /
tajjagdhaṃ madhunā sārdhaṃ daśavarṣa sahasriṇam //

Milk combined with honey and ghee bestows longevity; / consumed with honey, [it makes him] live for ten thousand years,

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1.187.5

kuryānnaraṃ śrutidharaṃ pramadājanavallabham /
dadhnā nityaṃ bhakṣitantu vajradehakaraṃ bhavet //

and makes a man able to retain what he hears, beloved by women; / eaten daily with curd, it produces an adamantine body,

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1.187.6

keśarājisamāyuktaṃ naraṃ varṣasahasriṇam /
tacca kāñjikasaṃyuktaṃ naraṃ kuryācca bhakṣitam //

endowed with a head of hair, making a man live a thousand years; / and eaten mixed with sour gruel, it makes a man

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1.187.7

śatavarṣaṃ divyadehaṃ valīpalitavarjitam /
jagdhaṃ triphalayā kṣaudraṃ cakṣuṣmantaṃ karoti vai //

[live] for a hundred years with a divine body, free from wrinkles and grey hair; / honey eaten with triphalā certainly gives good eyesight.

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1.187.8

andhaḥ paśyettu cūrṇasya sājyasyaiva tu bhakṣaṇāt /
mahiṣīkṣīrasaṃyuktastallepaḥ kṛṣṇakeśakṛt //

Even a blind person sees from eating the powder with ghee; / an application of that combined with buffalo's milk produces black hair,

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1.187.9

khalvāṭasya ca vai keśā bhavanti vṛṣabhadhvaja /
tailayuktena cūrṇena valīpalitanāśanam //

and the hair of a bald man grows, O Bull-bannered One; / with the powder mixed with oil, wrinkles and grey hair are destroyed.

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1.187.10

tadudvartanamātreṇa sarvarāgaḥ pramucyate /
sacchāgakṣīracūrṇena dṛṣṭiḥ syānmāsato 'ñjanāt //

Merely by massaging with it, one is freed from all red eruptions; / from applying the powder with goat's milk as a collyrium, [full] vision occurs within a month.

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1.187.11

palāśasya ca bījāni śrāvaṇe vituṣāṇi ca /
gṛhītvā navanītena teṣāṃ cūrṇaṃ ca bhakṣayet //

Taking the husked seeds of palāśa in the month of Śrāvaṇa, / one should eat their powder with fresh butter.

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1.187.12

karṣārdhamekaṃ seveta natvā nityaṃ hariṃ prabhum /
purāṇaṣaṣṭidhānyasya pathyamambu pibanhara /
jīvedvarṣasahasrāṇi valīpalitavarjitaḥ //

One should consume half a karṣa [daily], bowing always to Lord Hari; / taking wholesome water of old sixty-day rice as diet, O Hara, / one lives for thousands of years, free from wrinkles and grey hair.

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1.187.13

bhṛṅgarājasya vai mūlaṃ puṣyarkṣe tu samāhṛtam /
vidhāya tasya cūrṇaṃ vai sasauvīrañca bhakṣayetaṃ //

Having gathered the root of bhṛṅgarāja under the Puṣya asterism / and made a powder of it, one should eat it with fermented barley-water;

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1.187.14

māsamātraprayogeṇa valīpalitavarjitaḥ /
śatāni pañca jīvecca naro nāgabalo bhavet /
bhavecchrutidharo rudra puṣyarkṣe caiva bhakṣaṇāt //

by a practice of only a month, freed from wrinkles and grey hair, / a man lives for five hundred years and possesses the strength of an elephant; / he becomes capable of retaining what he hears, O Rudra, from eating it under the Puṣya asterism.

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1.187.14.p1

iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe pūrvakhaṇḍe prathamāṃśākhye ācārakāṇḍe āyuṣkarayogodṛsaptāśītyadhikaśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-seventh chapter, on recipes conferring longevity, in the section on conduct, in the first part called the first section, in the glorious Mahāpurāṇa of Garuḍa.

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