Garuda Purana — Purva Khanda — Chapter 159
GaP 1 159.1
श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- १५९ धन्वन्वरिरुवाच । प्रमेहाणां निदानन्ते वक्ष्ये ऽहं शृणु सुश्रुत ! । प्रमेहा विंशतिस्तत्र श्लेष्मणो दश पित्ततः
śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 159 dhanvanvariruvāca / pramehāṇāṃ nidānante vakṣye 'haṃ śṛṇu suśruta ! / pramehā viṃśatistatra śleṣmaṇo daśa pittataḥ
Śrī Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa 159. Dhanvantari said: Now I shall declare the etiology of the pramehas; listen, Suśruta. Of these the pramehas are twenty: ten from kapha, (six) from pitta,
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GaP 1 159.2
षट्चत्वारो ऽनिलात्तेच मेदोमत्रकफावहाः । हारिद्रमेही कटुकं हरिद्रासन्निभं शकृत्
ṣaṭcatvāro 'nilātteca medomatrakaphāvahāḥ / hāridramehī kaṭukaṃ haridrāsannibhaṃ śakṛt
six and four from wind (respectively); and they carry off fat, urine and kapha. The man with hāridra-meha (voids) a pungent discharge resembling turmeric.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 159.3
विस्त्रं माञ्जिष्ठमेहेच मञ्जिष्ठा सलिलोपमम् । विस्त्रमुष्णं सलवणं रक्ताभ रक्तमेहतः
vistraṃ māñjiṣṭhameheca mañjiṣṭhā salilopamam / vistramuṣṇaṃ salavaṇaṃ raktābha raktamehataḥ
(It is) rank-smelling; and in mañjiṣṭhā-meha (the urine is) like madder-water; from rakta-meha it is rank, hot, salty and red-tinged.
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GaP 1 159.4
वसामेही वसामिश्रं वसाभं मूत्रयेन्मुहुः । मज्जाभं मज्जमिश्रं वा मज्जमेही मुहुर्मुहुः
vasāmehī vasāmiśraṃ vasābhaṃ mūtrayenmuhuḥ / majjābhaṃ majjamiśraṃ vā majjamehī muhurmuhuḥ
The man with vasā-meha repeatedly voids (urine) mixed with fat or resembling fat; the man with majjā-meha, again and again, (voids urine) resembling marrow or mixed with marrow.
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GaP 1 159.5
हस्ती मत्त इवाजस्त्रं मूत्रं वेगविवर्जितम् । सलसीकं विवद्धं च हस्तिमेही प्रमेहति
hastī matta ivājastraṃ mūtraṃ vegavivarjitam / salasīkaṃ vivaddhaṃ ca hastimehī pramehati
Like an elephant in rut, incessantly, the man with hasti-meha voids urine that comes without urge, containing lymph, and obstructed.
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GaP 1 159.6
मधुमेही मधुसमं जायते स किल द्विधा । क्रुद्धे धातुक्षयाद्वायौ दोषावृतपथे यदा
madhumehī madhusamaṃ jāyate sa kila dvidhā / kruddhe dhātukṣayādvāyau doṣāvṛtapathe yadā
The man with madhu-meha (voids urine) like honey; that (disease) arises, indeed, in two ways: when the wind is provoked through depletion of the tissues, and when its path is obstructed by the doṣas.
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GaP 1 159.7
आवृतो दोषलिङ्गानि सो ऽनिमित्तं प्रदर्शयेत् । क्षणात्क्षीणः क्षणात्पूर्णो भजते कृच्छ्रसाघ्यताम्
āvṛto doṣaliṅgāni so 'nimittaṃ pradarśayet / kṣaṇātkṣīṇaḥ kṣaṇātpūrṇo bhajate kṛcchrasāghyatām
Obstructed (by the doṣas), he displays the signs of the doṣas without cause; in one moment wasted, in another moment full, he becomes only difficultly curable.
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GaP 1 159.8
कालेनोपेक्षितः सर्वोह्यायाति मधुमेहताम् । मधुरं यच्च मेहेषु प्रायो मध्विव मेहति
kālenopekṣitaḥ sarvohyāyāti madhumehatām / madhuraṃ yacca meheṣu prāyo madhviva mehati
Every (meha), if neglected over time, comes to the state of madhu-meha; and whatever is sweet among the mehas, he mostly voids like honey.
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GaP 1 159.9
सर्वे ते मधुमेहाख्या माधुर्याच्च तनोर्यतः । अविपाको ऽरुचिश्छर्दिर्निद्रा कासः सपीनसः
sarve te madhumehākhyā mādhuryācca tanoryataḥ / avipāko 'ruciśchardirnidrā kāsaḥ sapīnasaḥ
All those are called madhu-meha, since the body too is sweet. Failure of digestion, loss of appetite, vomiting, drowsiness, cough together with catarrh —
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GaP 1 159.10
उपद्रवाः प्रजायन्ते मेहानां कफजन्मनाम् । बस्तिमेहनयोस्तोदोमुष्कावदरणं ज्वरः
upadravāḥ prajāyante mehānāṃ kaphajanmanām / bastimehanayostodomuṣkāvadaraṇaṃ jvaraḥ
— these complications arise for the mehas born of kapha. Piercing pain in the bladder and the penis, splitting (pain) in the testicles, fever,
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GaP 1 159.11
दाहस्तृष्णाम्लिका मूर्छा विड्भेदः पित्तजन्मनाम् । वातजानामुदावर्तः कम्पहृद्गहलोलताः
dāhastṛṣṇāmlikā mūrchā viḍbhedaḥ pittajanmanām / vātajānāmudāvartaḥ kampahṛdgahalolatāḥ
burning, thirst, acid eructation, fainting, loosening of the stool — (these) for those born of pitta. For those born of wind: udāvarta, trembling, seizure of the heart, unsteadiness,
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GaP 1 159.12
शूलमुन्निद्राता शोषः श्वासः कासञ्च जायते । शराविका कच्छपिका ज्वालिनी विनतालजी
śūlamunnidrātā śoṣaḥ śvāsaḥ kāsañca jāyate / śarāvikā kacchapikā jvālinī vinatālajī
colic, sleeplessness, wasting, laboured breathing and cough arise. Śarāvikā, kacchapikā, jvālinī, vinatā, alajī,
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GaP 1 159.13
मसूरिका सर्षपिका पुत्रिणी सविदारिका । विद्रधिश्चेति पिडिकाः प्रमेहोपेक्षया दश
masūrikā sarṣapikā putriṇī savidārikā / vidradhiśceti piḍikāḥ pramehopekṣayā daśa
masūrikā, sarṣapikā, putriṇī, together with vidārikā, and vidradhi — these are the ten pustules (arising) from neglect of prameha.
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GaP 1 159.14
अन्नस्य कफसंश्लेषात्प्रायस्तत्र प्रवर्तनम् । स्वाद्वम्ललवणस्निग्धगुरुपिच्छिलशीतम्
annasya kaphasaṃśleṣātprāyastatra pravartanam / svādvamlalavaṇasnigdhagurupicchilaśītam
There the onset (of the disease) is mostly from the sticking of food to kapha: sweet, sour, salty, unctuous, heavy, slimy and cold (food),
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GaP 1 159.15
नवं धान्यं सुरासूपमांसेक्षुगुडगोरसम् । एकस्थानासनवति शयनं विनिवर्तनम्
navaṃ dhānyaṃ surāsūpamāṃsekṣuguḍagorasam / ekasthānāsanavati śayanaṃ vinivartanam
new grain, liquor, pulse-broth, meat, sugarcane, jaggery, milk products; remaining in one place, sitting, lying down, and inactivity.
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GaP 1 159.16
बस्तिमाश्रित्य कुरुते प्रमेहाद्दूषितः कफः । दूषयित्वा वपुः क्लेदं स्वेदमेदोवसामिषम्
bastimāśritya kurute pramehāddūṣitaḥ kaphaḥ / dūṣayitvā vapuḥ kledaṃ svedamedovasāmiṣam
Kapha, vitiated, settling in the bladder, produces (the disease) out of prameha, having corrupted the body's moisture, sweat, fat, fatty tissue and flesh.
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GaP 1 159.17
पित्तं रक्तमतिक्षीणे कफादौ मूत्रसंश्रयम् । धातुं बस्तिमुपानीय तत्क्षयेच्चैव मारुतः
pittaṃ raktamatikṣīṇe kaphādau mūtrasaṃśrayam / dhātuṃ bastimupānīya tatkṣayeccaiva mārutaḥ
When kapha and the rest are much diminished, pitta and blood come to lodge in the urine; and the wind, having drawn a bodily tissue down to the bladder, wastes it away.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 159.18
साध्यासाध्यप्रतीत्याद्याः मेहास्तेनैव तद्भवाः । समे समकृता दोषे परमत्वात्तथापि च
sādhyāsādhyapratītyādyāḥ mehāstenaiva tadbhavāḥ / same samakṛtā doṣe paramatvāttathāpi ca
It is by that very (doṣa) that the urinary diseases are recognized as curable, incurable, and so on, and that they arise; and when the doṣa is uniform, they are uniformly produced — yet also because of predominance.
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GaP 1 159.19
सामान्य लक्षणन्तेषां प्रभूताविलमूत्रता । दोषदूष्या विशेषे ऽपि तत्संयोगविशेषतः
sāmānya lakṣaṇanteṣāṃ prabhūtāvilamūtratā / doṣadūṣyā viśeṣe 'pi tatsaṃyogaviśeṣataḥ
Their general sign is copious, turbid urine; even where there is a distinction of the vitiating doṣa and the vitiated tissue, (the distinction arises) from the particular character of their combination.
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GaP 1 159.20
मूत्रवर्णादिभेदेन भेदो मेहेषु कल्प्यते । अच्छं बहुसितं शीतं निर्गन्धमुदकोपमम्
mūtravarṇādibhedena bhedo meheṣu kalpyate / acchaṃ bahusitaṃ śītaṃ nirgandhamudakopamam
By the difference of the urine's color and so forth a difference is reckoned among the urinary diseases: clear, very white, cold, odorless, resembling water —
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GaP 1 159.21
मेहत्युदकमेहेन किञ्चिदाविलपिच्छिलम् । इक्षो रसमिवात्यर्थं मधुरं चेक्षुमेहतः
mehatyudakamehena kiñcidāvilapicchilam / ikṣo rasamivātyarthaṃ madhuraṃ cekṣumehataḥ
— such is what one passes in udakameha (water-diabetes), (though) somewhat turbid and slimy; and in ikṣumeha (sugarcane-diabetes) exceedingly sweet, like the juice of sugarcane.
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GaP 1 159.22
सान्द्री भवेत्पर्युषितं सान्द्रमेहेन मेहति । सुरामेही सुरातुल्यमुपर्यच्छमधोघनम्
sāndrī bhavetparyuṣitaṃ sāndramehena mehati / surāmehī surātulyamuparyacchamadhoghanam
With sāndrameha (thick-diabetes) he passes urine that becomes thick when left standing overnight; one with surāmeha (liquor-diabetes) passes urine like liquor, clear above and dense below.
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GaP 1 159.23
सहृष्टरोमा पिष्टेन पिष्टबद्बहुलं सितम् । शुक्राभं शुक्रमिश्रं वा शुक्रमेही प्रमेहति
sahṛṣṭaromā piṣṭena piṣṭabadbahulaṃ sitam / śukrābhaṃ śukramiśraṃ vā śukramehī pramehati
With piṣṭameha (flour-diabetes), his body hair bristling, (he passes) copious white urine like flour-paste; one with śukrameha (semen-diabetes) passes urine resembling semen or mixed with semen.
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GaP 1 159.24
मूत्रयेत्सिकतामेही सिकतारूपिणो मलान् । शीतमेही सुबहुशो मधुरं भृशशीतलम्
mūtrayetsikatāmehī sikatārūpiṇo malān / śītamehī subahuśo madhuraṃ bhṛśaśītalam
One with sikatāmeha (gravel-diabetes) would pass waste matter in the form of grains of sand; one with śītameha (cold-diabetes), very copiously, sweet and exceedingly cold.
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GaP 1 159.25
शनैः शनैः शनैर्मेही मन्दं मन्दंप्रमेहति । लालातन्तुयुतं मूत्रं लालामेहेन पिच्छिलम्
śanaiḥ śanaiḥ śanairmehī mandaṃ mandaṃpramehati / lālātantuyutaṃ mūtraṃ lālāmehena picchilam
One with śanairmeha (slow-diabetes) passes urine very slowly, little by little; with lālāmeha (saliva-diabetes) the urine is slimy and has threads like saliva.
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GaP 1 159.26
गन्धवर्णरसस्पर्शेः क्षारेण क्षारतोयवत् । नीलमेहन नीलाभं कालमेही मसीनिभम्
gandhavarṇarasasparśeḥ kṣāreṇa kṣāratoyavat / nīlamehana nīlābhaṃ kālamehī masīnibham
With kṣārameha (alkali-diabetes) it is, in smell, color, taste and touch, like alkaline water; with nīlameha (blue-diabetes) it looks blue; one with kālameha (black-diabetes) passes urine like ink.
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GaP 1 159.27
सन्धिमर्मसु जायन्ते मांसलेषु च धामसु । अन्तोन्नता मध्यनिन्मा अक्लेदसुरुजान्विता
sandhimarmasu jāyante māṃsaleṣu ca dhāmasu / antonnatā madhyaninmā akledasurujānvitā
(Pustules) arise at the joints and vital points and in fleshy places, raised at the edges, sunken in the middle, without oozing and attended with severe pain.
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GaP 1 159.28
शरावमानसंस्थाना पिडिका स्याच्छराविका । सदाहा कूर्मसंस्थाना ज्ञेया कच्छपिका बुधैः
śarāvamānasaṃsthānā piḍikā syāccharāvikā / sadāhā kūrmasaṃsthānā jñeyā kacchapikā budhaiḥ
The pustule shaped like the hollow of a saucer would be śarāvikā; the one with burning and shaped like a tortoise is to be known by the wise as kacchapikā.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 159.29
महती पिडिका नीला विनता नाम सा स्मृता । दहति त्वचमुत्थाने ज्वालिनी कष्टदायिनी
mahatī piḍikā nīlā vinatā nāma sā smṛtā / dahati tvacamutthāne jvālinī kaṣṭadāyinī
A large blue pustule is called vinatā; the one that burns the skin as it rises is jvālinī, which causes distress.
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GaP 1 159.30
रक्ता सिता स्फोटचिता दारुणा त्वलजी भवेत् । मसूराकृति संस्थाना विज्ञेया तु मसूरिका
raktā sitā sphoṭacitā dāruṇā tvalajī bhavet / masūrākṛti saṃsthānā vijñeyā tu masūrikā
Red, white, studded with blisters and severe — that would be alajī; but the one shaped in the form of a lentil is to be known as masūrikā.
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GaP 1 159.31
सर्षपोपमसंस्थाना जिह्वापाकमहारुजा । पुत्रिणी महती चाल्पा सुसूक्ष्मा पिडिका स्मृता
sarṣapopamasaṃsthānā jihvāpākamahārujā / putriṇī mahatī cālpā susūkṣmā piḍikā smṛtā
Shaped like a mustard seed, with suppuration of the tongue and great pain — a large pustule with tiny, very fine ones is called putriṇī.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 159.32
विदारीकन्दवद्वृत्ता कठिना च विदारिका । विद्रधेर्लक्षणैर्युक्ता ज्ञेया विद्रधिका तु सा
vidārīkandavadvṛttā kaṭhinā ca vidārikā / vidradherlakṣaṇairyuktā jñeyā vidradhikā tu sā
Round like the vidārī tuber and hard is vidārikā; but the one furnished with the signs of an abscess is to be known as vidradhikā.
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GaP 1 159.33
पुत्रिणी च विदारी च दुः सहा बहुमेदसः । सद्यः पित्तोल्बणास्त्वन्याः सम्भवन्त्यल्पमेदसः
putriṇī ca vidārī ca duḥ sahā bahumedasaḥ / sadyaḥ pittolbaṇāstvanyāḥ sambhavantyalpamedasaḥ
Putriṇī and vidārī are hard to bear for those with much fat; the others, with predominance of pitta, arise at once in those with little fat.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 159.34
पिडिकास्ता भवेयुः स्याद्दोषोद्रेको यथायथम् । प्रमेहेण विनाप्येता जायन्ते दुष्टमेदसः
piḍikāstā bhaveyuḥ syāddoṣodreko yathāyatham / prameheṇa vināpyetā jāyante duṣṭamedasaḥ
Those pustules would arise according as there is excess of the (respective) doṣa in each case; and even without prameha they arise in one whose fat is vitiated.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 159.35
तावच्च नोपलक्ष्यन्ते यावद्वर्णञ्च वर्जितम् । हारिद्रं रक्तवर्णं वा मेहप्राग्रूपवर्जितम्
tāvacca nopalakṣyante yāvadvarṇañca varjitam / hāridraṃ raktavarṇaṃ vā mehaprāgrūpavarjitam
And they are not noticed so long as the color is absent; turmeric-yellow or red in color, and without the prodromes of meha —
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 159.36
यो मूत्रयेत तन्महें रक्तपित्तन्तु तद्विदुः । स्वेदो ऽङ्गगान्धः शिथिलत्वमङ्गे श्य्याशनस्वप्नसुखाभिषङ्गः । हृन्नेत्रजिह्वाश्रवणोपदाहा घनोग्रता केशनखाभिवृद्धिः
yo mūtrayeta tanmaheṃ raktapittantu tadviduḥ / svedo 'ṅgagāndhaḥ śithilatvamaṅge śyyāśanasvapnasukhābhiṣaṅgaḥ / hṛnnetrajihvāśravaṇopadāhā ghanogratā keśanakhābhivṛddhiḥ
— whoever passes such urine, that meha they know to be (from) raktapitta. Sweating, bodily odor, looseness in the limbs, an attachment to the comforts of bed, seat and sleep, burning in the heart, eyes, tongue and ears, thickness and harshness (of the body), overgrowth of hair and nails —
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 159.37
शीतप्रियत्वं गलतालुशोषो माधुर्य मास्ये करपाददाहः । भविष्यतो मेहगणस्य रूपं मूत्रे ऽपि धावन्ति पिपीलिकाश्च
śītapriyatvaṃ galatāluśoṣo mādhurya māsye karapādadāhaḥ / bhaviṣyato mehagaṇasya rūpaṃ mūtre 'pi dhāvanti pipīlikāśca
A liking for cold things, dryness of throat and palate, sweetness in the mouth, burning of the hands and feet — this is the (advance) sign of the coming group of urinary diseases; and ants run (toward) the urine too.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 1 159.38
तृष्णा प्रमेहे मधुरं प्रपिच्छं मध्वामये स्याद्विविधोविकारः । सम्पूरणाद्वा कफसम्भवः स्यात्क्षीणेषु दोषेष्वनिलात्मको वा
tṛṣṇā pramehe madhuraṃ prapicchaṃ madhvāmaye syādvividhovikāraḥ / sampūraṇādvā kaphasambhavaḥ syātkṣīṇeṣu doṣeṣvanilātmako vā
In pramehā (there is) thirst; in madhumeha (diabetes) the urine is sweet and slimy, and various disorders may occur; either from over-repletion it may be of kapha origin, or, when the doṣas are depleted, it may be of the wind type.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 1 159.39
सम्पूर्णरूपाः कफपित्तमेहाः क्रमेण ये वै रतिसम्भवाश्च । सक्रामते पित्तकृतास्तु याप्याः साध्यो ऽस्ति मेहो यदि नास्ति दिष्टम्
sampūrṇarūpāḥ kaphapittamehāḥ krameṇa ye vai ratisambhavāśca / sakrāmate pittakṛtāstu yāpyāḥ sādhyo 'sti meho yadi nāsti diṣṭam
The kapha and pitta types of meha with full-blown signs, in order, and those arising from sexual indulgence — the pitta-caused ones spread (further) and are (only) manageable; meha is curable if death is not fated.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain