[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) › 1.191 # Garudapurana 1.191 English (machine translation) 1.191 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.191.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.24) — 1 part ### [1.191.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.1) The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 191 Hari said: White root of punarnavā gathered under the Puṣya asterism— water drunk \[with it, and placed\] beside him, in \[his\] dwellings there are no serpents. ### [1.191.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.2) Whoever carries an image of Garuḍa made of a bear's tooth will not be seen by serpents as long as he lives, O bull-bannered Lord. ### [1.191.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.3) Whoever drinks the root of śālmali with water under the Puṣya asterism, O Rudra, serpents will have their fangs dropped out towards him; here there is no doubt. ### [1.191.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.4) When the root of lajjāluka gathered under Puṣya is bound to the hand, one may seize serpents, or through an unguent; here there is no doubt. ### [1.191.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.5) The root of white arka gathered under Puṣya, drunk with cold water, destroys poison from biting insects and poison born from karavīra and the like. ### [1.191.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.6) The root of mahākāla ground with sour gruel— an ointment of that removes the poison of voḍra snakes and duṇḍubha water-snakes. ### [1.191.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.7) Root of taṇḍulīyaka ground with rice-water and drunk along with ghee removes all poisons. ### [1.191.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.8) Root of nīlī or lajjāluka ground with rice-water and drunk destroys poison from biting insects, through one or both of them. ### [1.191.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.9) Fresh juice of ash gourd with jaggery and sugar, drunk with milk, destroys the poison of biting insects. ### [1.191.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.10) Likewise, it removes the stupor \[caused by\] the root of kodrava. Sugar combined with licorice and drunk, ### [1.191.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.11) and taken with milk, removes the poison of rats in three nights. And from drinking three sips of cold water, ### [1.191.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.12) salivation of one whose mouth is burned by betel ceases. Having drunk ghee with sugar, the intoxication of wine-drinking does not \[persist\]. ### [1.191.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.13) Water well-boiled with the root of kṛṣṇāṅkola, drunk, then destroys artificial poison within three nights, O Maheśvara. ### [1.191.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.14) Hot cow's ghee combined with rock salt destroys, O Mahādeva, the pain caused by a scorpion. ### [1.191.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.15) Safflower, saffron, yellow orpiment, realgar, ground karañja, and root of arka, O Śaṅkara— ### [1.191.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.16) the poison of human beings is destroyed from eating these, O Śiva. And from applying lamp oil on bites caused by insects, O Śiva, the poison of a kharjūraka is then destroyed; there is no doubt here. ### [1.191.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.17) On the sting-site of a scorpion, dry ginger combined with tagara \[destroys pain\]; the poison of a honey-bee is destroyed by an ointment of these. ### [1.191.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.18) Śatapuṣpā and rock salt, or with ghee, one should smear with that. The seed of śirīṣa, rubbed with boiled milk, ### [1.191.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.19) by its ointment, O Mahādeva, dog-poison is destroyed. Sprinkling with fire-heated water likewise \[destroys\] frog-poison. ### [1.191.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.20) From drinking juice of dhattūra mixed with milk, raw sugar, and the like, the poison of dogs is destroyed, O Lord whose crest is marked with the crescent moon. ### [1.191.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.21) Water boiled with the barks of banyan, neem, and śamī— from sprinkling it, the toxic pain of the mouth and teeth is destroyed. ### [1.191.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.22) From the application of devadāru and the application of red ochre, nāgeśvara, the two kinds of turmeric, and madder, O Hara— from an ointment of these, spider venom is destroyed, O Lord of Umā. ### [1.191.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.23) Seeds of karañja, bark of varuṇa, sesame, and mustard destroy poison; here there is no doubt. ### [1.191.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.24) Ghee and aloe leaf administered with salt, O Hara, destroys itching on the bodies of horses within ten days. ### [1.191.24.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191.24.p1) Thus ends the one hundred and ninety-first chapter in the Ācārakāṇḍa, named the first part of the Pūrvakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.191.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.191) · Pramāṇa