Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.481

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Jātavedā attacks the child in the eighth year. The child refuses food and cries. Bali with cooked gingelly, gingelly bread and curds, and bathing and fuming form the treatment. Kālā (Kālī) attacks the child during the ninth year. Feelings of fear, roaring etc. are the symptoms. Bali with gingelly rice, gingelly bread, gingelly powder, Kalmāṣa and pudding form the treatment. Kalahaṃsī attacks the child during the tenth year. Fever, burning sensation and emaciation are the symptoms. Bali for five days with bread called Paulik and rice mixed with ghee, exposure to fumes of margosa leaf and smearing the body with a paste of Kottam form the treatment. Devabhūti attacks the child when it is eleven years old. Then he will utter harsh and cruel words. Bali and smearing as above form the treatment. Valikā attacks the child in the 12th year. Frequent hiccoughs is the symptom. Treatment is the same as above. Vāyasī attacks the child when it is 13 years old. All the limbs except the face get emaciated. Treatment is as follows : bali with red rice, red sandal-wood and red flowers; bath in water boiled with the leaves of five trees; and exposure to the fumes of margosa and mustard. Yakṣiṇī attacks the child when it is fourteen years old. Awkward physical expressions, stomach-ache, fever and thirst are the symptoms. Bali with flesh, rice etc. and bathing etc. as above form the treatment. Muṇḍikā attacks the child when it is fifteen years old. Various kinds of pains, bleeding etc. are the symptoms. The mother of the child is to be treated for this. Vānarī attacks the child during the 16th year. Falling down, continuous sleep and fever form the symptoms. Bali during three nights with pudding etc. and bathing and fuming as above form the treatment. Gandhavatī attacks the child during the seventeenth year. Agitation of limbs and crying are the symptoms. Bali with Kalmāṣa etc. and bathing and fuming as above form the treatment. The following mantra should be repeated in all balis and gifts. Oṃ namaḥ sarvamātṛbhyo bālapīḍāsaṃyogaṃ bhuñja bhuñja cuṭa cuṭa sphoṭaya sphoṭaya sphura sphura gṛhāṇa gṛhāṇa ākaṭṭaya ākaṭṭaya kaṭṭaya kaṭṭaya evam siddharūpo jñāpayati hara hara nirdoṣe kuru kuru bālikāṃ bālam striyaṃ puruṣaṃ vā sarvagrahāṇāmu-pakramāt-cāmuṇḍe namo devyai hruṃ hruṃ hrīṃ apasara duṣṭagrahān hram tadyathā gacchantu gṛhya-tām anyatra panthānam rudro jñāpayati. (Agni Purāṇa, Chapter 299).