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Garudapurana 1.185

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1.185.1

The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 185. / Hari said: / "Āṃ to Gaṇapati"—this mantra of Gaṇapati grants wealth and knowledge.

1.185.2

Having chanted this eight thousand times and then tied one's topknot, / there will be victory in lawsuits; from chanting it a hundred times, one becomes dear to people.

1.185.3

One should offer into the fire black sesame seeds smeared with ghee, O Rudra, / one thousand and eight times; the king comes under one's control within three days.

1.185.4

Fasting on the eighth or fourteenth day and worshipping the Lord of Obstacles, / one should offer one thousand and eight oblations of sesame and unbroken rice; / one becomes undefeated in battle, and everyone serves him.

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Having chanted it eight thousand times, and then by chanting it a hundred and eight times / tying one's topknot, there will be victory in lawsuits at the royal court.

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A man who in the morning projects the syllable Hrīṃ with the visarga / onto the forehead of women certainly brings them under his control.

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Projecting it with a well-composed mind into the dwelling of women, / he renders the passionate woman filled with desire; there is no doubt about this.

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He who, being pure and restrained in mind, offers ten thousand oblations, / brings women under his control always at mere sight.

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Realgar, patraka, together with gorocanā and saffron— / when a forehead mark is made with these, women come under control.

1.185.10

Bhṛṅgarāja, sahadevā, vacā, and white aparājitā— / having made a forehead mark with these alone, one brings the three worlds under control.

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Gorocanā and fish-bile, having made a pill out of both: / whatever man makes a forehead mark with the little finger of his left hand / brings the entire three worlds under control; there is no doubt about this.

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Gorocanā, O Mahādeva, infused with mineral blood [or catamenial blood]— / having made a forehead mark with this, whatever man she looks upon, / she brings him under control at that very moment; there is no doubt about this.

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Nāgeśvara, śaileya, cinnamon bark, patra, harītakī, / sandalwood, kuṣṭha, small cardamom, along with red śāli rice—

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incense made of these brings under control; it torments with the arrows of Smara, / at the time of lovemaking, O Mahādeva, O Śaṅkara beloved of Pārvatī.

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Whatever man, taking his own semen with his left hand, / smears it on the left foot of a passionate woman, becomes dear to that woman.

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Saindhava salt, O Mahādeva, pigeon droppings, and honey: / when the penis is smeared with these, it brings a passionate woman under control.

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Taking any five red flowers whatsoever / and an equal amount of priyaṅgu, one should grind them together in a single mixture; / for one whose penis is smeared with this, a passionate woman comes under his control.

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Hayagandhā, mañjiṣṭhā, blossoms of mālatī, / and white mustard—one whose penis is smeared with these becomes dear to a woman.

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The root of kākajaṅghā drunk with milk cures wasting. / For those who consume aśvagandhā, nāgabalā, jaggery, and black gram, / the appearance becomes like that of youths living in the freshness of youth.

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Iron powder combined with powder of triphalā / taken with honey, O Rudra, cures the colic known as pariṇāmaśūla.

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Drinking boiled water, and likewise the ash of a snail, / and deer horn burnt in fire, combined with cow's ghee, / drunk, O Śiva, causes the destruction of pains in the heart and the back.

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Asafoetida, sauvarcala salt, dried ginger, O God of the Bull Banner, potent medicinal herbs— / water boiled with these, when drunk, removes all colics.

1.185.23

The root of apāmārga combined with sea salt, / when tasted, crushes colic caused by indigestion.

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The aerial root bud of a banyan, O Rudra, ground with rice water / and drunk with buttermilk, O Śaṅkara, brings dysentery to an end.

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Half a karṣa of aṅkoṭa root ground with rice water, / drunk, removes all dysentery and malabsorption syndrome, O Lord of Spirits.

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Powder of black pepper, dried ginger, and kuṭaja bark together with jaggery, / each progressively doubled, when drunk, destroys the disease of malabsorption syndrome.

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Root of white aparājitā, turmeric, beeswax, rice, / apāmārga, and trikaṭu: a pill made of these, O Śiva, / destroys the great disease of cholera, without a doubt.

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Triphalā, aguru, O Lord of Spirits, śilājatu, and harītakī— / each one of these powders mixed with honey / and drunk, brings all urinary disorders to an end, O Śaṅkara.

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One prastha of arka latex, and just as much sesame oil, / one pala each of realgar, black pepper, and red lead;

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having made a powder in a copper vessel, one should dry it in the sun; / then latex from snuhī mixed with saindhava salt, drunk, cures colic.

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Trikaṭu, triphalā, karañja, and likewise sesame oil, / realgar, neem leaves, jasmine flowers, goat's milk,

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and its urine, conch-shell core, and sandalwood should then be rubbed together; / having made a collyrium stick from these, one should then apply it to both eyes.

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Membrane diseases, cataract, corneal opacity, timira, and others are destroyed. / Powder of vibhītaka with honey certainly cures asthma.

1.185.34

Powder of pippalī and triphalā, combined with honey and rock salt, / destroys all diseases: fever, asthma, consumption, and chronic rhinitis.

1.185.35

One should steep the powder of devadāru in goat's urine / twenty-one times, and then apply it to both eyes; / night blindness, membrane disease, and loss of eyelashes are thus destroyed.

1.185.36

Pippalī, ketaka, O Rudra, turmeric, āmalaka, and vacā: / from applying these as a collyrium with milk, all eye diseases are destroyed.

1.185.37

When the root of kākajaṅghā and śigru are held in the mouth, O Śiva, / and chewed, tooth worms are indeed destroyed, O Hara.

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Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-fifth chapter, on the medical applications of mantras and remedies, in the section on conduct, in the first part called the first section, in the glorious Mahāpurāṇa of Garuḍa.

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