[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) › 1.187 # Garudapurana 1.187 English (machine translation) 1.187 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.187.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187.14) — 1 part ### [1.187.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187.1) Hari said: / One should powder the leaves of the hastikarṇapalāśa, O Hara; / one hundred palas of this powder freed from all diseases, O Śiva, ### [1.187.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187.2) 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, ### [1.187.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187.3) 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. ### [1.187.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187.4) Milk combined with honey and ghee bestows longevity; / consumed with honey, \[it makes him\] live for ten thousand years, ### [1.187.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187.5) and makes a man able to retain what he hears, beloved by women; / eaten daily with curd, it produces an adamantine body, ### [1.187.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187.6) endowed with a head of hair, making a man live a thousand years; / and eaten mixed with sour gruel, it makes a man ### [1.187.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187.7) \[live\] for a hundred years with a divine body, free from wrinkles and grey hair; / honey eaten with triphalā certainly gives good eyesight. ### [1.187.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187.8) Even a blind person sees from eating the powder with ghee; / an application of that combined with buffalo's milk produces black hair, ### [1.187.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187.9) and the hair of a bald man grows, O Bull-bannered One; / with the powder mixed with oil, wrinkles and grey hair are destroyed. ### [1.187.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187.10) 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. ### [1.187.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187.11) Taking the husked seeds of palāśa in the month of Śrāvaṇa, / one should eat their powder with fresh butter. ### [1.187.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187.12) 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. ### [1.187.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187.13) Having gathered the root of bhṛṅgarāja under the Puṣya asterism / and made a powder of it, one should eat it with fermented barley-water; ### [1.187.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187.14) 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. ### [1.187.14.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187.14.p1) 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. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.187.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.187) · Pramāṇa