[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) › 1.189 # Garudapurana 1.189 English (machine translation) 1.189 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.189.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.16) — 1 part ### [1.189.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.1) Glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 189 / Hari said: / Filling the eyes with juice of white aparājitā flowers / destroys cataract; no doubt should be entertained on this. ### [1.189.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.2) By chewing the root of gokṣura, O Nīlalohita, / pain from dental worms is destroyed, O Crusher of Gods and Asuras. ### [1.189.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.3) If a woman, fasting on the day of her menstrual period, drinks the root / of white arka with cow's milk, it relieves her phantom tumor and acute pain. ### [1.189.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.4) A white arka flower taken according to rite and previously consecrated with mantras, / tied to the waist of a woman purified after menstruation, brings about easy childbirth. ### [1.189.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.5) The root of palāśa or apāmārga, O Hara, / tied to the hand removes all fevers and drives away bhūtas, pretas, and the like. ### [1.189.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.6) The root of vṛścika consumed in the morning together with water / stored overnight destroys burning fever, O Parameśvara. ### [1.189.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.7) And tied to the tuft of hair, it removes quotidian fevers; / drunk with water stored overnight, it removes all poisons. ### [1.189.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.8) He to whom the root of lajjālukā is given along with his own semen / enters into enmity, whether a man or a woman: there is no doubt. ### [1.189.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.9) Whoever drinks the root of pāṭhā after grinding it with cow's ghee / will destroy all poison; no doubt should be entertained on this. ### [1.189.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.10) By taking root of śirīṣa with water stored overnight in this way, / and by filling the ears with the juice of red citraka root, O Hara, / the disease of jaundice is destroyed: there is no doubt. ### [1.189.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.11) The root of white kokilākṣa combined with goat's milk / drunk for three weeks completely destroys consumption. ### [1.189.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.12) One should drink coconut flower mixed with goat's milk; / his threefold raktavāta is destroyed. ### [1.189.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.13) One should take the root of sudarśanā well collected with a garland; / tied around the neck, it destroys tertian fevers, grahas, and bhūtas. ### [1.189.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.14) The flower and root of white guñjā gathered / and placed in the mouth, O Rudra, removes many different poisons. ### [1.189.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.15) Tied to the hand with its stem, or tied to the neck, it removes grahas and the like; / gathered on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight and tied around the waist, / it removes fear from wild beasts like lions, O Nīlalohita. ### [1.189.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.16) One should wear the root of viṣṇukrāntā tied to the ear / with a silk thread, O Lord, O Lord of Bhūtas: there will be no fear of crocodiles and the like. ### [1.189.16.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189.16.p1) Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-ninth chapter in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section called Pūrvakhaṇḍa in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.189.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.189) · Pramāṇa