[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) › 1.182 # Garudapurana 1.182 English (machine translation) 1.182 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.182.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.28) — 1 part ### [1.182.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.1) Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — \[Chapter\] 182 Hari said: Curds are generally condemned in autumn, summer, and spring; in early winter, late winter, and the rainy season, curds are praised. ### [1.182.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.2) Sugar taken with fresh butter after eating produces intellect. One should eat one pala of old jaggery; a man endowed with strength may then go to a thousand women, O Hara! ### [1.182.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.3) Having powdered kuṣṭha, combined with ghee and honey, one should consume it at bedtime; it destroys wrinkles and grey hair. ### [1.182.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.4) Having powdered linseed, black gram, wheat, and pippalī, the wise man should anoint the limbs with ghee and water; a mortal always becomes like the god of love, O Śaṅkara! ### [1.182.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.5) Barley, sesame, aśvagandhā, muśalī, saralā, and jaggery: having eaten \[a preparation\] made from these, one becomes youthful and strong. ### [1.182.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.6) Having drunk hiṅgu, black salt, and dry ginger with boiled water, digestive colic and indigestion are destroyed. ### [1.182.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.7) One should grind dhātakī and somarājī with milk; a weak man becomes stout, there is no doubt about this. ### [1.182.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.8) A strong man should lick fresh butter mixed with sugar and honey; a consumptive patient living on milk attains nourishment and incomparable intellect. ### [1.182.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.9) Crab powder drunk with milk dispels consumption. Bhallātaka, viḍaṅga, barley-alkali, and rock salt, ### [1.182.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.10) realgar, and conch powder cooked in oil in the same manner truly sheds hair, there is no doubt about this. ### [1.182.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.11) Taking the juice of bael, one should grind a leech in it; one should smear both hands with it; it is an excellent fire-immobiliser. ### [1.182.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.12) Taking the sap of the silk-cotton tree and placing it in donkey's urine, one should throw it onto fire and the like; it is an excellent fire-immobiliser. ### [1.182.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.13) Taking the belly of a crow along with frog's fat, one should make a pill of it; then the wise man should cast it into fire; thus by this procedure fire is excellently immobilised. ### [1.182.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.14) Bark of muṇḍī, vacā, musta, black pepper, and tagara: having chewed this, one may instantly lick a flame with the tongue. ### [1.182.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.15) Gorocanā and bhṛṅgarāja powdered together with equal ghee causes immobilisation of celestial water, as also by this mantra: ‘Oṃ, cause fire-immobilisation, cause it!’ ### [1.182.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.16) ‘Oṃ, obeisance to the Blessed One, immobilise water, saṃ saṃ saṃ keka kekaḥ caracara.’ This is the water-immobilising mantra; it immobilises water, O Śiva! ### [1.182.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.17) A vulture's bone, a cow's bone, and flowers offered to a deity: whoever buries these at the door of an enemy, he meets with death. ### [1.182.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.18) One should take five red flowers, each of a different kind, accompanied by saffron, combined with one's own blood, ### [1.182.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.19) ground together with a flower and one pala of rocanā: this forehead-mark made by a woman or a man is subjugating, O Rudra! ### [1.182.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.20) Brahmadaṇḍī \[gathered\] under the Puṣya constellation is subjugating in food and drink. One should drink hot water cooked with one pala of liquorice. ### [1.182.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.21) It dispels intestinal sluggishness and heart-pain, O Maheśvara! ‘Oṃ hrūṃ jaḥ’ This mantra, O Rudra, destroys all poison caused by scorpions. ### [1.182.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.22) Pippalī, fresh butter, ginger, rock salt, black pepper, curds, and kuṣṭha remove poison in nasal drops and drink. ### [1.182.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.23) Triphalā, ginger, kuṣṭha, and sandalwood mixed with ghee: from drinking this and applying it as a paste, poison is destroyed, O Śiva! ### [1.182.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.24) The eyes of a pigeon, yellow orpiment, and realgar: from this formulation, one destroys poison as Garuḍa destroys serpents. ### [1.182.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.25) Rock salt, tryūṣaṇa, combined with curd, honey, and ghee: this paste destroys scorpion poison, O Bull-bannered One! ### [1.182.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.26) Having boiled brahmadaṇḍī and sesame, one should drink \[it with\] the trikaṭu powder; it destroys abdominal tumours, O Rudra, and obstructed blood. ### [1.182.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.27) Drinking milk mixed with honey stops blood-flow. One should smear the vulva and navel with the root of vāsā; a woman delivers with ease, there is no doubt about this. ### [1.182.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.28) Drinking sugar mixed with honey with rice-water pacifies bloody diarrhoea, O Bull-bannered One! ### [1.182.28.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182.28.p1) Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-second chapter in the Ācārakāṇḍa, belonging to the first portion of the first section, in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.182.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.182) · Pramāṇa