Garudapurana 1.190

English (machine translation) 1.190

Language: English

1.190.32 — 1 part

1.190.1

Glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 190 / Hari said: / The root of aparājitā combined with cow's urine, / when drunk, swiftly removes scrofula: there is no doubt.

1.190.2

Then indravāruṇī root drunk according to rite, O Īśvara; / [and] jiṅgiṇī, castor, and cowhage combined, O Rudra, / and cold water placed upon it removes pain in the arms and neck.

1.190.3

Buffalo butter, aśvagandhā, pippalī, / vacā, and the two kuṣṭhas: an ointment of these relieves pain of the penis, urinary channels, and breasts.

1.190.4

Powder of kuṣṭha and nāgabalā combined with fresh butter: / an ointment of this makes the breasts of young women rounded and shapely.

1.190.5

In whose name the root of indravāruṇī is uprooted / and cast far away, his spleen disease is destroyed.

1.190.6

The root of white punarnavā drunk with rice-washing water / cures abscesses; no doubt should be entertained on this.

1.190.7

Alkali of plantain leaves prepared with water: / by consuming it, all abdominal diseases are destroyed.

1.190.8

Taking the root of plantain, combined with jaggery and ghee, / cooked over fire and eaten, it removes worms residing in the abdomen.

1.190.9

He who daily eats powder of neem leaves / and āmalaka at dawn has his skin disease destroyed.

1.190.10

Harītakī, viḍaṅga, turmeric, white mustard, / roots of somarāja, and karañja bark, / ground with cow's urine, truly destroy skin diseases.

1.190.11

One part of triphalā, two parts of śivā, / and seeds of somarāja eaten with suitable diet removes ringworm.

1.190.12

Sour buttermilk boiled with cow's urine and combined with salt, / rubbed violently in a bronze vessel, destroys skin diseases and ringworm through application as an ointment.

1.190.13

Turmeric, orpiment, dūrvā grass, cow's urine, and rock salt: / this ointment destroys ringworm, scabies, and artificial poison.

1.190.14

Seeds of somarāja combined with fresh butter / and tasted with honey destroy leukoderma, O Rudra, / when accompanied by diet and drink of buttermilk; no doubt should be entertained on this.

1.190.15

The root of white aparājitā ground into a pill with its own water / and applied as an ointment, O Rudra, destroys leukoderma within a month.

1.190.16

Buffalo butter, red lead, and black pepper: / through smearing this, scabies and hemorrhoids are destroyed, O Bull-bannered One.

1.190.17

Dried root of gāmbhārī cooked with milk / and eaten destroys leucorrhea, O Īśvara.

1.190.18

Seeds of radish ground with the juice of apāmārga: / through that ointment, O Rudra, sidhma is destroyed.

Turmeric combined with the alkali of plantain removes white leprosy.
The alkali of plantain and apāmārga mixed with castor [oil]—
from anointing with that, O Mahādeva, white leprosy is immediately destroyed.

1.190.20

And the alkali of the stalk of ash gourd with cow's urine, according to rule,
and turmeric ground with water, cooked indeed over a gentle fire,

1.190.21

wrapped in buffalo dung, O bull-bannered Lord—
one should perform rubbing with this; it brings symmetry of limbs, O Lord.

1.190.22

Both types of turmeric and kuṣṭha combined with sesame and mustard—
a man who rubs his body with this, though foul-smelling, becomes fragrant.

1.190.23

And every day [an ointment of] dūrvā grass, kākajaṅghā,
flowers of arjuna together with leaves of jambū,
and along with lodhra—an ointment of these removes bad odor of the body.

1.190.24

Powder of kanaka mixed with the flowers produced from lodhra—
for one whose body is rubbed with it, there is no torment caused by summer.

1.190.25

Sprinkling with milk at dawn destroys the distress of heat;
rubbing with kākajaṅghā produces an unguent for the body.

1.190.26

Licorice, sugar, the juice of vāsaka, and honey—
drunk, this cures internal hemorrhage, jaundice, and anemia.

1.190.27

Drunk, the juice of vāsaka and honey removes internal hemorrhage.
From drinking water at morning time, one removes severe chronic rhinitis.

1.190.28

Powder of bibhītaka, long pepper, and rock salt,
drunk with sour gruel, destroys hoarseness of voice, O Maheśvara.

1.190.29

The powder of āmalaka should be used, drunk with cow's milk.
Realgar, balā root, kola fruit, and guggulu,

1.190.30

jāti leaf, kola leaf, and likewise realgar—
a wick made of these over an ember of badarī wood, O Maheśvara,
when smoked, cures cough; here there is no doubt.

1.190.31

Powder of triphalā and long pepper eaten along with honey
at the beginning of a meal with honey quickly cures thirst and fever.

1.190.32

Bilva root and water boiled with guḍūcī, taken with honey,
drunk, removes the three kinds of vomiting; there is no doubt here.
Dūrvā grass drunk when ground with rice-water cures vomiting.

1.190.32.p1

Thus ends the one hundred and ninetieth chapter in the Ācārakāṇḍa, named the first part of the Pūrvakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.

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Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit