[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) › 1.176 # Garudapurana 1.176 English (machine translation) 1.176 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.176.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.18) — 1 part ### [1.176.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.1) The Holy Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 176 / The Blessed Lord said: / Beautiful hair grows within seven nights on a bald person / from an ointment of burnt elephant tusk mixed with goat's milk and rasāñjana. ### [1.176.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.2) An oil prepared with one-fourth part juice of bhṛṅgarāja / and combined with the powder of guñjā promotes hair growth. ### [1.176.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.3) Mixed with cardamom, jaṭāmāṃsī, kuṣṭha, and murā, it is auspicious when applied as an unguent. / One should take guñjā fruit: its paste destroys alopecia. ### [1.176.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.4) From an ointment of mango-seed powder, hairs indeed become fine. / An ointment of karañja, āmalaka, cardamom, and lac dispels aruṃṣikā. ### [1.176.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.5) From an ointment of mango seed marrow and āmalaka, hairs indeed / become firm-rooted, dense, long, and glossy, and they do not fall out. ### [1.176.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.6) An excellent oil prepared with viḍaṅga, sulphur, / four times the quantity of cow's urine, or realgar, ### [1.176.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.7) destroys lice and nits born in the head through application as a head unguent. / Newly burnt conch-shell powder smeared with ground lead; ### [1.176.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.8) the hairs become smooth and intensely black, O Bull-bannered One! / Bhṛṅgarāja, iron powder, triphalā, bījapūraka, ### [1.176.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.9) indigo, oleander, and molasses, boiled together in equal parts: / this potent medicinal herb turns grey hair black through application as a paste. ### [1.176.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.10) Mango seed marrow, triphalā, indigo, bhṛṅgarāja, / aged cooked iron powder, and sour gruel make the hair black. ### [1.176.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.11) Having ground cakramarda seeds, kuṣṭha, and castor root / with very sour gruel, application of the paste removes diseases of the head. ### [1.176.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.12) Rock salt, vacā, asafoetida, kuṣṭha, and likewise nāgeśvara, / śatapuṣpā, and devadāru—an oil prepared with these, ### [1.176.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.13) combined with one-fourth part the juice of cow dung: / by filling the ear with that, it destroys acute earache. ### [1.176.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.14) By filling the ears with sheep's urine and rock salt, O Śiva, / foul odour of the ears, worms, discharge, and the like are destroyed. ### [1.176.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.15) Likewise, by filling with the juice of mālatī flower petals / and flooding with cow's urine alone, a discharge of pus is destroyed. ### [1.176.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.16) Kuṣṭha, black gram, black pepper, tagara, honey, pippalī, / apāmārga, aśvagandhā, bṛhatī, white mustard, ### [1.176.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.17) barley, sesame seeds, and rock salt: an auspicious rub using one quarter \[part\] / causes growth of the penis, arms, breasts, and ears. / Mustard oil, bhallātaka, bṛhatī, pomegranate fruit, ### [1.176.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.18) smeared with their boiled barks, the penis grows thereby. ### [1.176.18.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176.18.p1) Thus ends the one hundred and seventy-sixth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Growth of Hair and Other Topics', in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.176.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.176) · Pramāṇa