[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt) › 1.158 # Garudapurana 1.158 English (machine translation) 1.158 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.158.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.40) — 1 part ### [1.158.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.1) The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa—\[Chapter\] 158. / Dhanvantari said: / Now then, hear, O Suśruta, the diagnosis of retention of urine. / The bladder, the head of the bladder, the penis, the waist, the testicles, and the anus ### [1.158.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.2) are described as a single functional complex located in the cavity of the pelvic bones. / Indeed, although the bladder is downward-facing, through the openings of the channels carrying urine, ### [1.158.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.3) it is continuously filled from the flanks by subtle, flowing streams. / Entering through these very \[channels\], the doshas produce twenty varieties \[of urinary disease\]. ### [1.158.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.4) Retention of urine and obstinate urinary disorders severely afflict the vital spot. / Accompanied by pain in the bladder, groins, and penis, one passes \[urine\] in tiny amounts repeatedly. ### [1.158.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.5) In the vāta type, urination is painful; in the pitta type, it is yellow, with burning and pain, / or bloody; in the kapha type, there is heaviness and swelling of the bladder and penis, ### [1.158.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.6) slimy, obstructed, and possessing all the symptoms when caused by all the doshas combined. / When vāta, having twisted and desiccated the neck of the bladder, ### [1.158.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.7) dries the urine mixed with pitta, kapha, or semen, then gradually / a dreadful calculus is formed, just as biliary stone (rocanā) is formed in a cow. ### [1.158.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.8) All \[calculi\] are rooted in kapha. Now, the premonitory symptom of this: / distension of the bladder, severe pain all around the neighbouring regions, ### [1.158.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.9) retention of urine in the bladder, dysuria, fever, and loss of appetite. / The general sign is pain at the navel, the perineal raphe, and the crown of the bladder. ### [1.158.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.10) Urine may flow in divided streams, and when the passage is obstructed, / it is blocked; once unblocked, one urinates with ease, the urine clear like a hessonite gem. ### [1.158.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.11) From its irritation, there is blood and pain in the passage along the muscular tissue. / In that condition, afflicted by the movement of vāta, one grinds the teeth and trembles; ### [1.158.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.12) one grasps the penis and presses the navel, which is a marked sign; / one passes stool with flatulence and repeatedly urinates drop by drop. ### [1.158.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.13) The stone from vāta is dusky, rough, and covered as if with thorns; / due to pitta, the bladder burns as though being cooked, accompanied by heat; ### [1.158.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.14) it is shaped like a marking-nut seed, red, yellow, or white. / Due to kapha, the bladder feels as if pierced with needles, cold, and heavy; ### [1.158.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.15) the stone is large, smooth, honey-coloured or white. / These occur in children, and predominantly in them, ### [1.158.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.16) because of the smallness of their bladder and its growth, extraction and removal are easy. / Seminal calculus, however, is large and is produced by the suppression of ejaculation. ### [1.158.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.17) When semen displaced from its place or unspent is held between the testicles, vāta / desiccates it, compacting it; that is a seminal calculus. ### [1.158.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.18) It causes pain in the bladder, dysuria, whitish urine, and swelling; / as soon as it is produced, it reaches the dry state and dissolves. ### [1.158.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.19) When it is compressed, in fever and cough, gravel appears just like calculus; / or that \[calculus\] is broken by vāta, and when the vāta moves downwards, ### [1.158.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.20) it passes out together with the urine; but when it moves in the reverse direction, it solidifies. / When vāta is provoked at the mouth of the bladder, it causes retention of urine, ### [1.158.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.21) urinary obstruction, pain, and itching, and sometimes a severe discharge. / Covering and elevating the bladder, it produces a thick, spreading swelling up to the abdomen, ### [1.158.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.22) causing pain, burning, throbbing, and twisting cramps there; / urine is passed drop by drop, and when the bladder is pressed, ### [1.158.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.23) the flow is also obstructed; this is known as vātabasti (spasm of the bladder), / difficult to overcome; a second form is even more difficult to overcome, caused by powerful vāta. ### [1.158.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.24) Vāta located between the rectum and the bladder / produces a firm, immobile, and elevated lump resembling an anvil (aṣṭhīlā). ### [1.158.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.25) That is vātāṣṭhīlā, which causes obstruction to feces, urine, and flatus. / When vāta becomes disordered, coiled up in the bladder, and causes severe pain, ### [1.158.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.26) it moves about blocking the urine, causing rigidity, cramping, and heaviness, / or discharges urine in very small quantities now and then. ### [1.158.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.27) This is called vātakuṇḍalikā. But when urine is suppressed, it is soon / held back and does not come out, or comes out obstructed with mild pain, known as mūtrātīta. ### [1.158.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.28) When thwarted by suppression, turned around by vāta, / the urine then fills the abdomen below the navel. ### [1.158.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.29) It produces severe pain, distension, inability \[to pass waste\], and retention of feces; / that urine, due to a disorder in the abdominal aperture or by vāta, ### [1.158.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.30) Thrown into the bladder or into the navel or feces of one whose urine is scanty, / having stayed there, it may flow slowly afterward, accompanied by pain or without pain. ### [1.158.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.31) The discharge of urine is interrupted, producing a heaviness in the groin and penis; / within the neck of the bladder, thirst suddenly occurs, firm and slight. ### [1.158.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.32) A tumor with pain equal to a urinary calculus is called mūtragranthi. / When one who has the urge to urinate goes to a woman, semen displaced by vāyu, ### [1.158.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.33) dislodged from its proper place, comes forth before or after urinating; / resembling ash-water, it is called mūtraśukra. ### [1.158.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.34) When upward movement of wind occurs in a dry and weak person, / the feces enters the urinary tract mixed with fecal matter; ### [1.158.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.35) a drop of urine has the same smell \[as feces\]; one should designate that as \[vātaja\] vighāta. / Due to pitta, physical exertion, sharp and sour food, flatulence, and the like, ### [1.158.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.36) by aggravated vāyu in the urine located in the bladder, causing a burning sensation, / it discharges urine first mixed with blood or purely red \[with blood\]. ### [1.158.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.37) Hot, again and again, with difficulty: that they call uṣṇavāta. / In a person who is dry and whose body is exhausted, pitta and wind situated in the bladder ### [1.158.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.38) produce a depletion of urine (mūtrakṣaya) accompanied by pain and burning, bearing that name. / If pitta or kapha, or both, should be solidified by wind, ### [1.158.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.39) then with difficulty one discharges urine that is yellow, red, white, or dense, / accompanied by burning, and having the color of gallstone or conch-shell powder. ### [1.158.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.40) When dried, it has all colors; they call it mūtrasāda. / Thus at length have been spoken the diseases arising from the urine. ### [1.158.40.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158.40.p1) Thus ends the one hundred and fifty-eighth chapter, named 'The Diagnosis of Retention of Urine and Dysuria', in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section called Pūrvakhaṇḍa in the glorious and great Garuḍa Purāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.158.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.158) · Pramāṇa