Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.455

c7.455

On the second night after the birth of the child another female planet called Bhīṣaṇī attacks it. Symptoms of the attack are coughing, deep breath and shrinking of bodily organs. The remedies for the attack are: smearing of the body with paste made in sheep's urine of tippali (long pepper), rāmacca, root of "Kaṭalāṭi" and sandalwood. The child should also be exposed to the fumes got by burning the horn tooth and hairs of the cow. And, with the above-mentioned things bali should be offered to the planet.