[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) › 1.164 # Garudapurana 1.164 English (machine translation) 1.164 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.164.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.41) — 1 part ### [1.164.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.1) The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 164 Dhanvantari said: Through improper diet and conduct, especially unwholesome foods, and through engaging in censuring or killing good people, fighting, stealing, and the like; ### [1.164.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.2) Impelled at once by sinful actions performed in past lives, the impurities \[doṣas\] reach the channels, and united with them, corrupt the skin, fat, blood, and flesh; ### [1.164.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.3) And drying them up, emerging outward from there, they produce discolouration of the skin; the wise declare that to be kuṣṭha. ### [1.164.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.4) When neglected over time, it invades the entire body and internal organs; / entering all bodily tissues, outer and inner, and moistening them, it brings on \[affliction\]. ### [1.164.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.5) It produces sweating, discharge, contractions, and minute, dreadful worms; / and it attacks in succession the body-hair, skin, ligaments, and vessels. ### [1.164.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.6) It makes \[the body\] appear as if covered with ashes; this is declared the external kuṣṭha. / Kuṣṭhas are of seven kinds through the bodily humours, individually, in pairs, or combined. ### [1.164.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.7) Even though all three bodily humours are involved in every case, designation is based on the predominant one: / from vāta arises kāpāla-kuṣṭha; from pitta, audumbara; from kapha, ### [1.164.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.8) the type called maṇḍala, as well as vicarcikā; from vāta and pitta arises the type called ṛṣya; / carma-kuṣṭha, ekakuṣṭha, kiṭima, sidhma, alasa, and vipādikā ### [1.164.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.9) arise from vāta and kapha; from kapha and pitta arise dadru and śatāru; / puṇḍarīka, together with visphoṭa, pāmā, and likewise carmadala. ### [1.164.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.10) Kākaṇa arises from all \[three bodily humours\]. The first group of three, along with dadru, kākaṇa, / puṇḍarīka, and ṛṣyajihva, are the seven great kuṣṭhas. ### [1.164.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.11) Excessive smoothness or roughness to the touch, excessive sweating or absence of sweat, discolouration, / burning sensation, itching, numbness in the skin, piercing pain, contraction, swelling, faintness, ### [1.164.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.12) excessive pain in ulcers, rapid occurrence and long persistence, / dryness even when healed, and great flare-ups from slight causes, ### [1.164.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.13) horripilation, and blackening of the blood: these are the premonitory symptoms of kuṣṭha. / That which resembles a blackish-red potsherd, is rough, harsh, thin, ### [1.164.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.14) spread out in shape, turned outward, and covered with spoiled body-hairs, / with abundant piercing pain—that uneven kuṣṭha is known as kāpāla. ### [1.164.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.15) One should declare that kuṣṭha which resembles the fruit of the udumbara tree to be audumbara; / it is described as circular, thick, with excessive burning and pain, ### [1.164.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.16) uncovered, painless upon bursting, and containing worms. Such is audumbara. / Firm, cohesive, heavy, unctuous, white and red, accompanied by excretions, ### [1.164.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.17) with swollen edges adhering to one another, intense itching, discharge, and worms, / smooth and yellowish in appearance—such is proclaimed as maṇḍala. ### [1.164.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.18) Vicarcikā has itchy, dusky eruptions accompanied by moist discharge. / That which is harsh, red at the edges, dark inside, raised, ### [1.164.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.19) and shaped like the tongue of a bull antelope is described as ṛṣyajihva, possessing many worms. / That which feels rough like elephant hide is called carma-kuṣṭha. ### [1.164.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.20) Devoid of sweat and resembling fish scales is kiṭima; / dry, resembling the colour of fire, painful to the touch, itchy, rough, and black, ### [1.164.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.21) rough on the inside, smooth on the outside, scattering powder when rubbed within, / smooth to the touch, thin, unctuous, clear, and without sweat, resembling a flower \[is sidhma\]. ### [1.164.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.22) Generally causing emaciation in the upper body and covered with deeply itchy patches; / vipādikā causes very sharp pain on the hands and feet with red cracks, ### [1.164.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.23) severe agony, intense itching, and is covered with reddened eruptions; / it resembles spreading dūrvā grass with long tendrils, having the hue of an atasī flower, ### [1.164.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.24) and has raised circular patches; it is called itchy dadru. / \[Śatāru\] has thick roots, is attended by burning and agony, has bloody discharge, and many sores, ### [1.164.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.25) accompanied by burning, moisture, and pain, and generally appears all over. / \[Puṇḍarīka has\] a circle smeared with red, pale, accompanied by itching, burning, and pain, ### [1.164.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.26) elevated and covered with red \[spots\], like a lotus leaf with water-drops; / that indeed is puṇḍarīka, covered with whitish-red vesicles. ### [1.164.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.27) Pāmā has vesicular pustules accompanied by itching, moisture, and pain, / minute, dusky-red, dry, and generally found on the buttocks, hands, and elbows. ### [1.164.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.28) Intolerant of touch due to vesicles, with itching, bleeding, and intense burning / is carmadala, with peeling skin; kākaṇa has severe burning and pain, ### [1.164.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.29) first red and then black, kākaṇa resembles a guñjā berry; / it arises from their respective causes endowed with all the characteristics of blackness. ### [1.164.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.30) One should diagnose it through the signs and actions laid down for differentiating the bodily humours. / One should abandon a kuṣṭha that follows its own humour \[when chronic\], or one that has penetrated all bodily humours. ### [1.164.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.31) Any kuṣṭha stated to reside in bone, marrow, or semen is \[incurable\]; / that which resides in fat is regarded as difficult to cure; that which has entered ligaments, bones, and flesh is manageable. ### [1.164.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.32) That which arises from kapha and vāta, resides in the skin, and is free of morbid matter, is easily cured. / When kuṣṭha is situated in the skin, there is discolouration and dryness in the body, ### [1.164.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.33) sweating, heat, and swellings; when in the blood and flesh, however, / blisters settle on the hands and feet, with intense distress in the joints. ### [1.164.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.34) Through frequent association with the morbid humour, cracking occurs in the fat; / when in the marrow and bone, there is loss of sensation, loss of vision, force, and voice. ### [1.164.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.35) And when semen is injured by worms, there is affliction to one's wife and offspring. / All their respective symptoms appear in order in \[persons of various constitutions\] like deer and others. ### [1.164.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.36) Śvitra, arising from the same cause as kuṣṭha, becomes kilāsa and dāruṇa; / it is declared to be non-exudative and situated in the origin of three tissues. ### [1.164.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.37) From vāta it is dry and reddish; from pitta, coppery like a lotus petal, / attended by burning, and destroying body-hair; from kapha, white, dense, and heavy, ### [1.164.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.38) and accompanied by itching. One should indicate it as seated successively in the blood, flesh, and fat; / both are identical in colour, and they become successively harder to cure. ### [1.164.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.39) That which has abundant non-white hairs, whose \[patches\] are not joined together, is recent, / and is not caused by burns from fire is curable; otherwise, śvitra is to be avoided. ### [1.164.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.40) Even if recently arisen, when it occurs on the genitals, palms, or lips, / kilāsa is especially to be rejected by one who desires success \[in treatment\]. ### [1.164.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.41) Diseases generally \[spread\] from touch, eating together, sexual intercourse and association, / sharing a single bed or seat, and from \[using another's\] clothing, garlands, and unguents. ### [1.164.41.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164.41.p1) Thus ends the one hundred and sixty-fourth chapter, entitled "Diagnosis of Kuṣṭha Diseases," in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section called Pūrvakhaṇḍa of the glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.164.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.164) · Pramāṇa