Garuda Purana — Purva Khanda — Chapter 187

GaP 1 187.1

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- १८७ हरिरुवाच । हस्तिकर्णपलाशस्य पत्राणि? चूर्णयेद्धर । सर्वरोगविनिर्मुक्तं चूर्णं पलशतं शिव

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 187 hariruvāca / hastikarṇapalāśasya patrāṇi? cūrṇayeddhara / sarvarogavinirmuktaṃ cūrṇaṃ palaśataṃ śiva

The Śrī Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, 187. Hari said: One should powder the leaves of the elephant-eared palāśa, O Hara; a hundred palas of that powder is free of all disease, O Śiva.

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GaP 1 187.2

सक्षीरं भक्षीतं कुर्यात्सप्ताहेन वृषध्वज । नरं श्रुतिधरं रुद्र मृगेन्द्रगतिविक्रमम्

sakṣīraṃ bhakṣītaṃ kuryātsaptāhena vṛṣadhvaja / naraṃ śrutidharaṃ rudra mṛgendragativikramam

Eaten with milk, in a week it makes a man one who retains what he has heard, O bull-bannered one, with the gait and prowess of a lion, O Rudra,

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GaP 1 187.3

पद्मरागप्रतीकाशंयुक्तं दशशतायुषा । षोडशाब्दाकृतिं रुद्र सततं दुग्धभोजनात्

padmarāgapratīkāśaṃyuktaṃ daśaśatāyuṣā / ṣoḍaśābdākṛtiṃ rudra satataṃ dugdhabhojanāt

resembling a ruby, endowed with a lifespan of a thousand (years), with the form of a sixteen-year-old, O Rudra, from constantly consuming (it) with milk.

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GaP 1 187.4

मधुसर्पिःसमायुक्तं दुग्धमायुष्करं भवेत् । तज्जग्धं मधुना सार्धं दशवर्ष सहस्रिणम्

madhusarpiḥsamāyuktaṃ dugdhamāyuṣkaraṃ bhavet / tajjagdhaṃ madhunā sārdhaṃ daśavarṣa sahasriṇam

Milk joined with honey and ghee would be life-giving; that eaten together with honey (makes a man) one of ten thousand years,

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GaP 1 187.5

कुर्यान्नरं श्रुतिधरं प्रमदाजनवल्लभम् । दध्ना नित्यं भक्षितन्तु वज्रदेहकरं भवेत्

kuryānnaraṃ śrutidharaṃ pramadājanavallabham / dadhnā nityaṃ bhakṣitantu vajradehakaraṃ bhavet

and would make a man one who retains what he has heard, beloved of women; but eaten daily with curd it becomes a maker of an adamantine body,

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GaP 1 187.6

केशराजिसमायुक्तं नरं वर्षसहस्रिणम् । तच्च काञ्जिकसंयुक्तं नरं कुर्याच्च भक्षितम्

keśarājisamāyuktaṃ naraṃ varṣasahasriṇam / tacca kāñjikasaṃyuktaṃ naraṃ kuryācca bhakṣitam

joined with keśarāja (it makes) a man one of a thousand years; and that combined with sour rice-gruel, when eaten, would make a man

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GaP 1 187.7

शतवर्षं दिव्यदेहं वलीपलितवर्जितम् । जग्धं त्रिफलया क्षौद्रं चक्षुष्मन्तं करोति वै

śatavarṣaṃ divyadehaṃ valīpalitavarjitam / jagdhaṃ triphalayā kṣaudraṃ cakṣuṣmantaṃ karoti vai

one of a hundred years, with a divine body, free of wrinkles and grey hair. Honey eaten with triphalā indeed makes (one) possessed of (good) eyesight.

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GaP 1 187.8

अन्धः पश्येत्तु चूर्णस्य साज्यस्यैव तु भक्षणात् । महिषीक्षीरसंयुक्तस्तल्लेपः कृष्णकेशकृत्

andhaḥ paśyettu cūrṇasya sājyasyaiva tu bhakṣaṇāt / mahiṣīkṣīrasaṃyuktastallepaḥ kṛṣṇakeśakṛt

A blind man would see from eating just that powder with ghee; combined with buffalo milk, a plaster of it makes the hair black.

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GaP 1 187.9

खल्वाटस्य च वै केशा भवन्ति वृषभध्वज । तैलयुक्तेन चूर्णेन वलीपलितनाशनम्

khalvāṭasya ca vai keśā bhavanti vṛṣabhadhvaja / tailayuktena cūrṇena valīpalitanāśanam

And a bald man indeed gets hair, O bull-bannered one; with the powder mixed with oil (comes) the destruction of wrinkles and grey hair.

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GaP 1 187.10

तदुद्वर्तनमात्रेण सर्वरागः प्रमुच्यते । सच्छागक्षीरचूर्णेन दृष्टिः स्यान्मासतो ऽञ्जनात्

tadudvartanamātreṇa sarvarāgaḥ pramucyate / sacchāgakṣīracūrṇena dṛṣṭiḥ syānmāsato 'ñjanāt

Merely by rubbing that on (the body), one is freed from all disease; with the powder in goat's milk, sight comes from applying it as a collyrium for a month.

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GaP 1 187.11

पलाशस्य च बीजानि श्रावणे वितुषाणि च । गृहीत्वा नवनीतेन तेषां चूर्णं च भक्षयेत्

palāśasya ca bījāni śrāvaṇe vituṣāṇi ca / gṛhītvā navanītena teṣāṃ cūrṇaṃ ca bhakṣayet

And having taken the seeds of palāśa, husked, in the month of Śrāvaṇa, one should eat their powder with fresh butter.

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GaP 1 187.12

कर्षार्धमेकं सेवेत नत्वा नित्यं हरिं प्रभुम् । पुराणषष्टिधान्यस्य पथ्यमम्बु पिबन्हर । जीवेद्वर्षसहस्राणि वलीपलितवर्जितः

karṣārdhamekaṃ seveta natvā nityaṃ hariṃ prabhum / purāṇaṣaṣṭidhānyasya pathyamambu pibanhara / jīvedvarṣasahasrāṇi valīpalitavarjitaḥ

One should take half a karṣa, having daily bowed to Hari the lord. Drinking, O Hara, the wholesome water of sixty-day-old (?) grain, one would live for thousands of years, free of wrinkles and grey hair.

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GaP 1 187.13

भृङ्गराजस्य वै मूलं पुष्यर्क्षे तु समाहृतम् । विधाय तस्य चूर्णं वै ससौवीरञ्च भक्षयेतं

bhṛṅgarājasya vai mūlaṃ puṣyarkṣe tu samāhṛtam / vidhāya tasya cūrṇaṃ vai sasauvīrañca bhakṣayetaṃ

The root of bhṛṅgarāja, gathered under the Puṣya asterism — having made a powder of it, one should eat it with sour gruel (sauvīra).

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GaP 1 187.14

मासमात्रप्रयोगेण वलीपलितवर्जितः । शतानि पञ्च जीवेच्च नरो नागबलो भवेत् । भवेच्छ्रुतिधरो रुद्र पुष्यर्क्षे चैव भक्षणात्

māsamātraprayogeṇa valīpalitavarjitaḥ / śatāni pañca jīvecca naro nāgabalo bhavet / bhavecchrutidharo rudra puṣyarkṣe caiva bhakṣaṇāt

By use for a month only (a man) becomes free of wrinkles and grey hair; a man may live five hundred (years) and gain the strength of an elephant; and he becomes retentive of what he hears, O Rudra, from eating (it) under the Puṣya asterism.

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