Garuda Purana — Purva Khanda — Chapter 165

GaP 1 165.1

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- १६५ धन्वन्तरिरुवाच । क्रिमयश्च द्विधा प्रोक्ता बाह्यभ्यन्तरभेदतः । बहिर्मलकफासृग्विट्जन्मभेदाच्चतुर्विधाः

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 165 dhanvantariruvāca / krimayaśca dvidhā proktā bāhyabhyantarabhedataḥ / bahirmalakaphāsṛgviṭjanmabhedāccaturvidhāḥ

The Great Garuḍa Purāṇa, 165. Dhanvantari said: Worms are said to be of two sorts, by the division into external and internal; the external are of four kinds, according to the difference in their origin from filth, kapha, blood, or faeces.

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GaP 1 165.2

नामतो विंशतिविधा बाह्यास्तत्र मलोद्भवाः । तिलप्रमाणसंस्थानवर्णाः केशाम्बराश्रयाः

nāmato viṃśatividhā bāhyāstatra malodbhavāḥ / tilapramāṇasaṃsthānavarṇāḥ keśāmbarāśrayāḥ

By name they are of twenty sorts. Among these, the external ones born of filth have the size, shape and colour of sesame seeds, and dwell in the hair and in clothing.

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GaP 1 165.3

बहुपादाश्च सूक्ष्माश्च यूका लिक्षाश्च नामतः । द्विधा ते कोष्ठपिडिकाः कण्डूगण्डान्प्रकुर्वते

bahupādāśca sūkṣmāśca yūkā likṣāśca nāmataḥ / dvidhā te koṣṭhapiḍikāḥ kaṇḍūgaṇḍānprakurvate

They are many-footed and minute, called by name lice and their eggs; they are of two kinds and produce pimples on the trunk, itching, and lumps.

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GaP 1 165.4

कुष्ठैकहेतवो ऽन्तर्जाः श्लेष्मजा बाह्यसम्भवाः । मधुरान्नगुडक्षीरदधिमत्स्यनवौदनैः

kuṣṭhaikahetavo 'ntarjāḥ śleṣmajā bāhyasambhavāḥ / madhurānnaguḍakṣīradadhimatsyanavaudanaiḥ

The internally born, produced from phlegm, are the sole causes of kuṣṭha, (as are) those arising externally; (they come) from sweet food, jaggery, milk, curd, fish and freshly cooked rice.

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GaP 1 165.5

कफादामाशये जाता वृद्धाः सर्पन्ति सर्वतः । पृथुब्रध्ननिभाः केचित्केचिद्गण्डूपदोपमाः

kaphādāmāśaye jātā vṛddhāḥ sarpanti sarvataḥ / pṛthubradhnanibhāḥ kecitkecidgaṇḍūpadopamāḥ

Born of phlegm in the stomach, when they have grown they creep everywhere; some resemble a broad swelling, some are like earthworms,

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GaP 1 165.6

रूढधान्याङ्कुराकारास्तनुदीर्घास्तथाणवः । श्वेतास्ताम्रावभासाश्च नामतः सप्तधा तु ते

rūḍhadhānyāṅkurākārāstanudīrghāstathāṇavaḥ / śvetāstāmrāvabhāsāśca nāmataḥ saptadhā tu te

some have the form of sprouted grain-shoots, are thin and long, and likewise minute, white and of coppery appearance; by name they are of seven kinds:

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GaP 1 165.7

अन्त्रादा उदरावेष्टा हृदयादा महागुदाः । च्युरवो दर्भकुसुमाः सुगन्धास्ते च कुर्वते

antrādā udarāveṣṭā hṛdayādā mahāgudāḥ / cyuravo darbhakusumāḥ sugandhāste ca kurvate

gut-eaters, belly-encirclers, heart-eaters, great-anus (worms), cyurava, darbha-blossom, and sweet-smelling; and they cause

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GaP 1 165.8

हृल्लासमास्यश्रवणमविपाकमरोचकम् । मूर्छाच्छर्दिज्वरानाहकार्श्यक्षवथुपीनसान्

hṛllāsamāsyaśravaṇamavipākamarocakam / mūrchācchardijvarānāhakārśyakṣavathupīnasān

nausea, running of the mouth, indigestion, loss of appetite, fainting, vomiting, fever, distension, emaciation, sneezing and catarrh.

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GaP 1 165.9

रक्तवाहिशिरास्थानरक्तजा जन्तवो ऽणवः । अपादा वृत्तताम्राश्च सौक्ष्म्यात्केचिददर्शनाः

raktavāhiśirāsthānaraktajā jantavo 'ṇavaḥ / apādā vṛttatāmrāśca saukṣmyātkecidadarśanāḥ

In the seat of the blood-carrying vessels, blood-born creatures arise, minute, without feet, round and copper-coloured, and some of them invisible because of their fineness.

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GaP 1 165.10

केशादा रोमविध्वंसा रोमद्वीपा उदुम्बराः । षट्ते कुष्ठैककर्माणः सहसौरसमातरः

keśādā romavidhvaṃsā romadvīpā udumbarāḥ / ṣaṭte kuṣṭhaikakarmāṇaḥ sahasaurasamātaraḥ

(They are) the hair-eaters, the hair-destroyers, the hair-islanders, the udumbaras, (the sahas, the saurasas, the mātaras): these six have one single effect, (namely) skin disease.

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GaP 1 165.11

पक्वाशये पुरीषोत्था जायन्ते ऽथोविसर्पिणः । वृद्धास्ते स्युर्भवेयुश्च ते यदामाशयोन्मुखाः

pakvāśaye purīṣotthā jāyante 'thovisarpiṇaḥ / vṛddhāste syurbhaveyuśca te yadāmāśayonmukhāḥ

In the lower gut (the receptacle of digested food) those arising from the faeces are born, and then the creeping ones; when they have grown large they may come to face the stomach (the receptacle of undigested food).

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GaP 1 165.12

तदास्योद्गारनिः श्वामविड्गन्धानुविधायिनः । पृथुवृत्ततनुस्थूलाः श्यावपीतसितासिताः

tadāsyodgāraniḥ śvāmaviḍgandhānuvidhāyinaḥ / pṛthuvṛttatanusthūlāḥ śyāvapītasitāsitāḥ

Then (the patient's) mouth, belching and breath conform to the smell of undigested matter and of faeces. (The worms are) broad, round, slender, thick, dusky, yellow, white and black.

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GaP 1 165.13

ते पञ्चनाम्ना क्रिमयः ककेरुकमकेरुकाः । सौसुरादाः सशूलाख्या लेलिहा जनयन्ति हि

te pañcanāmnā krimayaḥ kakerukamakerukāḥ / sausurādāḥ saśūlākhyā lelihā janayanti hi

Those worms, of five names — kakeruka, makeruka, sausurāda, those called saśūla, and leliha — indeed produce:

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GaP 1 165.14

वङ्भेदशूलविष्टम्भकार्श्यपारुष्यपाण्डुताः । रोमहर्षाग्निसदनं गुदकण्डूंर्विमार्गगाः

vaṅbhedaśūlaviṣṭambhakārśyapāruṣyapāṇḍutāḥ / romaharṣāgnisadanaṃ gudakaṇḍūṃrvimārgagāḥ

loose stools, colic, constipation, emaciation, roughness, pallor, bristling of the hair, extinction of the digestive fire, itching of the anus, and (excreta) going by the wrong passages.

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