Garudapurana 1.187

English (machine translation) 1.187

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Hari said: / One should powder the leaves of the hastikarṇapalāśa, O Hara; / one hundred palas of this powder freed from all diseases, O Śiva,

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eaten with milk makes a man within seven days, O Bull-bannered One, / capable of retaining what he hears, O Rudra, with the gait and valor of a lion,

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having the appearance of a ruby, endowed with a lifespan of a thousand years, / having the form of a sixteen-year-old, O Rudra, through always dining on milk.

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Milk combined with honey and ghee bestows longevity; / consumed with honey, [it makes him] live for ten thousand years,

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and makes a man able to retain what he hears, beloved by women; / eaten daily with curd, it produces an adamantine body,

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endowed with a head of hair, making a man live a thousand years; / and eaten mixed with sour gruel, it makes a man

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[live] for a hundred years with a divine body, free from wrinkles and grey hair; / honey eaten with triphalā certainly gives good eyesight.

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Even a blind person sees from eating the powder with ghee; / an application of that combined with buffalo's milk produces black hair,

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and the hair of a bald man grows, O Bull-bannered One; / with the powder mixed with oil, wrinkles and grey hair are destroyed.

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Merely by massaging with it, one is freed from all red eruptions; / from applying the powder with goat's milk as a collyrium, [full] vision occurs within a month.

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Taking the husked seeds of palāśa in the month of Śrāvaṇa, / one should eat their powder with fresh butter.

One should consume half a karṣa [daily], bowing always to Lord Hari; / taking wholesome water of old sixty-day rice as diet, O Hara, / one lives for thousands of years, free from wrinkles and grey hair.

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Having gathered the root of bhṛṅgarāja under the Puṣya asterism / and made a powder of it, one should eat it with fermented barley-water;

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by a practice of only a month, freed from wrinkles and grey hair, / a man lives for five hundred years and possesses the strength of an elephant; / he becomes capable of retaining what he hears, O Rudra, from eating it under the Puṣya asterism.

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Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-seventh chapter, on recipes conferring longevity, in the section on conduct, in the first part called the first section, in the glorious Mahāpurāṇa of Garuḍa.

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Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit