Children, grahas and spirit lore
बालग्रहभूततंत्र · चिकित्साधिकार
Opening line of the eighteenth chapter, whose running head is बालग्रहभूततंत्राधिकार (section on child grahas and spirit lore). It opens with an invocation and then the section on consumption (rajayakshma).
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The author prays that the lotus feet of Jinendra, served every day by devoted souls as bees serve a lotus and the cause of all happiness and prosperity in the three worlds, may always dwell…
The author promises to describe the severe wasting disease (vishama shosha, kshaya), the seat of bodily diseases since breathlessness, cough and many others arise with it, together with its…
Consumption is pictured as a conquering king surrounded by many severe diseases as vassal princes, who has overthrown the banners of other diseases; before its strength the enemy king,…
Opening line of the eighteenth chapter, whose running head is बालग्रहभूततंत्राधिकार (section on child grahas and spirit lore). It opens with an invocation and then the section on…
It is called kshaya because it wastes the tissues such as rasa and rakta, shosha because its fever dries them day by day, and rajayakshma because it destroys even kings; the commentary…
Because a dosha may predominate a little or a lot, consumption is also spoken of as vata, pitta or kapha type; but since the features of all doshas occur together and the course of…
Suppressing stool and urine, excessive sexual intercourse, injury, eating food lacking nourishing tastes such as sweet, and kapha blocking the vessels that carry rasa are named as causes;…
Using the relation of sign and thing signified, the text says that as smoke shows fire before the fire itself appears, diseases such as consumption are first shown by prodromal signs and…
Prodromes listed: much thick phlegm, breathlessness, weakness of all limbs, vomiting, dry throat, weak digestion, intoxication, whiteness of the eyes, excessive sleep and rhinitis. Dreams…
Eleven features are listed: from vata, loss or change of voice, sunken flanks and contraction of the shoulders; from pitta, fever, burning, bleeding and diarrhoea; from kapha, loss of…
A patient who keeps wasting though he eats a great deal, with swelling of the feet, abdomen and genitals and with diarrhoea, is said to go quickly to the next world, his mind set, in the…
The patient is first made unctuous with ghee cooked with the nourishing (brimhana) drugs described earlier, and is then cleansed with mild emesis, mild purgation and, if the head is heavy,…
The patient is to be fed all kinds of sweet rice, barley and wheat and many foods made from them, with ghee, jaggery, plenty of milk, mung soup, strengthening fruits and agreeable…
A powder of the three pungents, nut grass, chavya and vidanga, mixed with ghee and jaggery, is licked on rising in the morning; or raisins and long pepper are taken with ghee and jaggery…
Sesame powder and black gram powder in equal parts, with ashvagandha powder equal to both, are drunk with milk containing ghee and jaggery, and an ashvagandha paste is rubbed on the body…
The consumptive may drink ghee cooked with the flowers and roots of vasa (called vrisha or vasa ghee), eat cakes (pua) of barley, sesame, jaggery, black gram and shali rice flour, and eat…
Dung juice of goat, horse and cow, decoctions of guduchi, khadira, murva and chavya, milk and ghee, one part each (nine parts), are cooked with a paste of rasna, trikatu and licorice;…
Six parts of a decoction of khadira, kutaja, patha, patala, bilva, bhallataka, aragvadha, brihati, eranda, the two karanjas, barley, jujube, horse gram, vacha and chitraka are cooked with…
Ghee cooked with four parts of a decoction of trikatu, cardamom, neem, aragvadha, nut grass, bhallataka, chitraka, alum, haritaki, ajamoda, asana, khadira, amalaki, shala and vit-khadira is…
Bhallataka oil cooked gently with equal parts of ghee and jaggery; consuming one drona of it is said to remove consumption and free a person from wrinkles and grey hair, bringing great…
Ghee and oil cooked with white lodhra, ashvagandha, asthisamhara, vidari, gokshura, kapikacchu seeds, nutmeg and white gourd are rubbed on the body daily with massage; consumption is said…
Boiled milk is mixed with sugar, punarnava root powder, black pepper, asafoetida and a little buttermilk and set aside; next day the consumptive eats his meal with this fragrant curd.
Food and drink made from substances that digest quickly, kindle digestion, give relish and are very aphrodisiac, nourishing and strengthening should be given to the consumptive constantly,…
Pox is said to arise from the anger of cruel grahas, smelling the poisonous flowers of poison trees, poisoning, irregular eating, disturbed seasons, transgressing religious duties,…
According to the dosha involved, the eruptions are shaped like sand grains, mustard seeds or lentils, or like all kinds of grains and split pulses, and in due time turn yellow like ripe…
Because of the past karma of living beings, pox also produces terrible blisters shaped like the fruits of various trees, of two kinds: opening outward (bahirmukha) and opening inward…
Afterwards small eruptions with white, deep red, red or black rings appear; if they are sunken in the middle and black-mouthed they are incurable and the physician should avoid them.
Before pox appears there are high fever, loss of appetite, horripilation, burning, thirst, pain in the head, limbs and heart, aching joints, heavy sleep, delirious talk, fainting,…
When pox is accompanied by severe colic, stupor, bleeding from the mouth and nose, burning, swelling, confusion, excessive delirium, great thirst and deep fainting, it quickly takes life.
When the disease worsens, the eruptions spread to the tongue, ears, eyes, nose, brows, lips, throat, feet, hands and head, and over the whole body.
- Predominance of pitta in pox and the vata typeमसूरिका में पित्त की प्रबलता और वातिक लक्षणConditionp. 384
Pox arises mainly from strongly aggravated pitta, but features of the other doshas joined with it also appear. Eruptions coloured like a pigeon, black-mouthed, irregular in shape and…
Yellow, red or black eruptions with high fever, great thirst and burning, which ripen very quickly and are soft and numerous, are the pitta type.
The kapha type is dense, large, very cold, with fever preceded by chill, and ripens slowly; the blood type is red like coral; in the sannipata type the severe features of all three doshas…
Eruptions that are saucer-shaped with a sunken mouth, have a central knob, are ringed like burns, hard, very red or black with wide mouths, with fever, diarrhoea and colic, or with…
When the prodromes appear, the patient is made to fast well and then given emesis with a decoction of neem and licorice, and purgation with trivrit and sugar.
The patient is fed shashtika rice with mung soup, vegetables (bitter in the verse, sweet in the commentary) and sweet foods, or given a cool gruel cooked with cooling drugs and topped with…
A thirsty pox patient drinks very cold water or water boiled and cooled, and once the eruptions appear he should always sleep on a bed spread with plantain leaves soaked in water.
If the body is scorched by the severe burning of pox, blood is let by venesection, and a paste of blue lotus, lotus, nagakesara and sandal, or of neem and the sprouts of milky-sap trees, is…
The sprouts and roots of palasha and shalmali are ground in milk with sugar and applied to relieve the heat and pain of pox; other very sweet drugs may be applied likewise.
The roots of shaivala, ushira, kaseru, kasha and kusha are ground with sugarcane juice and applied; if the pox arises from poison, pastes of anti-poison drugs are applied.
Three decoctions are given for pox: neem, guduchi, red sandal and nut grass with sugar; raisins, haritaki, guduchi, patola, patha, kutki and nut grass; or bhallataka, mango, khas,…
If pox arising from vata and kapha is ripening, sesame oil prepared with all the fragrant drugs is applied; if pitta-type pox is ripening, ghee preparations made with the fragrant drugs are…
While the pox is ripening the patient is given light and sour food; when it has fully ripened it is pierced with a sharp, clean thorn and fresh oil from the oil press is poured on it.
If ripened pox turns into ulcers they are treated like wounds and like visarpa; lesions that discharge constantly are pressed again and again with pastes of black gram and barley.
Good ash, sifted well, is sprinkled on the pox so that the discharge dries; if worms arise in the pox ulcers, they are treated with anthelmintic drugs.
The pox patient is fanned constantly with leaves of ashoka, neem, mango and kadamba, and fumigated with jaggery, sal resin, guggulu, dhyamaka, kushtha and sandal.
Foul-smelling, slimy pox ulcers are washed with decoctions of trees such as neem and the milky-sap trees and with lukewarm kanji, and then well-ground sesame is applied to calm the strong…
The patient is given a light meal once a day of soups of lentil, mung and pigeon pea with ghee and sour fruits, increasing step by step to full meals. Wound treatment is applied properly,…
If the joints swell, they are treated as described for swelling and bound with leaves of the dhamana (reed) plant or with bandages; if the swelling ripens it is quickly incised and treated…
When the ulcers have healed, the skin colour is restored by applying, with ghee and sugar, turmeric, red ochre, or cool fragrant sandal or manjishtha; or kapittha, shali rice, khas and…
Pox and all other diseases arising from great calamities (upasarga) are to be warded off by one who knows mantra, yantra and tantra, and the lotus feet of Jinendra are to be worshipped with…
Swelling, kushtha, fever, eye diseases and calamity-born pox pass quickly from one person to another through touching the patient's body, living near him and eating food he has touched.
Before tackling these contagious great diseases the physician first protects himself with powerful seed syllables, then bows to the Jinas and his gurus and overcomes the disease with…
Vyantara beings such as bhutas and pishachas live here and there in the middle world and constantly afflict people through illusion, out of enmity from a former birth, for amusement, or…
Angry great grahas are said to enter people who do not daily worship the five supreme gurus with flowers, unbroken rice and the other substances, who sin, desire others' wealth and wives,…
Grahas overpower children who are frightened in many ways (for example told 'look, a ghost has come, be quiet'), beaten again and again, terrified, or brought up in dirty or deserted…
A child seized by the Kinnara graha has a fixed stare, a body smelling of blood, a crooked mouth and one twitching eyelid; he refuses the breast, his eyes shed a little water, and his fists…
A child seized by a graha is treated with many graha-removing measures such as massage, bathing and fumigation; a child seized by the Kinnara graha especially with red flower garlands and…
The child is massaged with sesame oil prepared with vata-pacifying and fragrant drugs and bathed in water prepared with the same drugs.
The child is fumigated with mustard, hair of all kinds (cow, goat, human and others), snake slough, asafoetida, vacha and kakadani mixed with ghee and jaggery, and is bathed at a crossroads…
An offering (bali) of balls made of shashtika rice and barley is given, and a fire offering (homa) of shali rice, kushtha and cow's ghee is made while reciting all 1008 names of the…
A garland made of bhudhara, gorakhmundi, guduchi, bilva thorns, sandal, indralata, drumstick root and indrayan root is put on the child. Footnotes note the reading 'bilva thorns' in another…
The child faints from pains and comes to again and again, moves hands and feet as if dancing, passes much stool and urine while bending and yawning, and vomits froth; this is the terrible…
Massage with oil cooked with all the fragrant drugs is beneficial, and ghee prepared with the milky-sap trees (such as gular) and sweet drugs is given to drink mixed with milk.
The child is fumigated with the body hair, hair and nails of bull and man, the elephant's tusk (nails in the verse), and vulture and owl dung, all mixed and soaked in ghee.
The child is bathed at a crossroads and an offering is made near a banyan tree; the roots of kaunch, kukkuti (semal according to the commentary), ananta (utpala sariva) and kanduri are worn…
A child seized by the Garuda graha has many ulcers and blisters with harsh ripening and burning, smells like a bird, has slack limbs and is frightened of everything.
The child is bathed in a cooled decoction of mango, neem, plantain, kapittha and jambu, and massage with oil cooked with the same trees and pastes of them are also commended. A footnote…
The ulcers caused by this graha are given the wound treatment described before, and the ghee, mantras, protective measures and fumigation described for the Kimpurusha graha are also…
A child seized by the Revati graha of the gandharva class (also called Bhrukuti) is pale yellowish or dark, with very red eyes (face in the verse), very yellow urine and stool, high fever…
The child is bathed with mantra-purified water prepared with the roots of sariva, ashvagandha, meshashringi and punarnava, massaged with oil prepared with kushtha and sal resin, and given…
At both twilights the child is fumigated with vulture and owl dung mixed with ghee, and is made to wear the bark of varuna and neem, which is said to ward off the Revati graha.
A child who repeatedly passes broken (loose) stools, vomits, has horripilation and thirst, and whose body smells like a crow is seized by the Putana graha of the bhuta class.
Though his body seems healthy, the Putana-seized child does not sleep well by day or night; he is sprinkled with water boiled with the ghost-conquering drugs neem, varuna, arka, nili and…
Sesame oil cooked with kushtha, sal resin, orpiment, vacha and similar drugs is applied, and ghee prepared with the eight sweet drugs (kakolyadi), licorice and bamboo manna is given to the…
The physician versed in graha treatment always bathes the Putana-possessed child with water containing leftover food, in an empty house or a secluded, open, deserted garden. The printed…
At both twilights the child is fumigated with sandal, agaru, tamala leaf (the commentary says tobacco), talisa, kushtha and khadira, with the hair, body hair and nails of animals and human…
The Putana-afflicted child is made to wear red castor, white mustard, ingudi and kakavalli (svarnavalli), and an offering of khichdi is always placed in the middle of an empty house (the…
A child who refuses the breast, suffers high fever, diarrhoea, cough, vomiting and hiccup, smells of fat or sourness, has lost his colour and has a hoarse voice is seized by the Anuputana…
Having recognised this graha, the physician bathes the child in water boiled with the leaves of bitter trees and charged with many mantras.
The child's body is massaged with sesame oil prepared with kushtha, sal resin, orpiment, realgar and kanji, and he is given ghee cooked with long pepper, long pepper root and the sweet…
Fumigation is done with the feathers, dung and skin of a cock and snake slough mixed with ghee, and the child always wears kukkuti, sariva and kanduri.
The graha is worshipped with many kinds of prepared foods offered to it, and the child is bathed inside the house in a place decorated with many coloured drawings.
A child whose body shivers with cold, who cries day and night, sleeps tightly curled up, has gurgling bowels and diarrhoea and a raw-flesh smell is seized by the Shitaputana graha.
The child is bathed with water boiled with kapittha, tulsi, mango, bilva and bhallataka, and anointed with sesame oil cooked with the group of urines (eight kinds, of the cow and others),…
Ghee cooked with a decoction of the bark of katphala, khadira, the sal-resin tree, neem, bhurja and arjuna and with buffalo milk is given every day to the Shitaputana-seized child.
The child is fumigated with neem leaves, snake slough, sal resin, owl and hare droppings and vajigandha (the commentary reads ajagandha, ajwain), and made to wear bimbi, gunja and kakadani…
The Shitaputana graha is worshipped near a body of water (pond, river) with food containing mung soup and other dishes, and there the physician who knows mantras bathes the child with…
A child who dries up as in wasting while his face looks handsome, who grows thinner daily though he eats (or suckles) much, whose belly is covered with visible veins, whose soles and palms…
The child is bathed well with water boiled with kuberaksha (patala), arka, bamboo, gandharvahasta, aragvadha and bilva, and then anointed with oil cooked with vata-removing drugs.
Good ghee cooked with the eight sweet drugs (kakolyadi), licorice, bamboo manna and milk is given to the child to drink, and he is fumigated constantly with vacha, kushtha and sal resin.
- Amulet, offering and bathing place against the Pishacha grahaपिशाचग्रहघ्न धारण, बलि व स्नान स्थानRemedyp. 399
A garland or pouch made of the feathers of the nilakantha (chasha) bird, vulture and peacock with snake slough is worn; an offering of coloured rice is given, and the child is bathed in a…
A child seized by the Rakshasa graha vomits froth, yawns, looks upward while crying in agitation, smells of flesh, suffers high fever and is in great pain.
The child is bathed with water boiled with karanja, both brihatis and agnimantha, or with warm kanji; massaged with oil prepared with a decoction and paste of nut grass, vacha, priyangu,…
The child wears a pouch of haritaki, white mustard, vacha and jatamamsi, and the possessed child is worshipped beneath a tree with flower garlands, various foods, sesame and rice.
- Bathing place and mantras for the Rakshasa-seized childराक्षसग्रहगृहीत का स्नान स्थान व मंत्र आदिOtherp. 400
The wise physician bathes the seized child near a milky-sap tree such as the banyan or pipal, and always protects him with mantras and yantras of the guardian deities of the Jain teaching.…
Right-believing bhavanavasi, vyantara and other deities endowed with eight kinds of glory, when honoured with pleasing fragrances, flowers, food offerings and the like, are pleased and…
Those who have made themselves pure by constant remembrance of the five paramesthis, using their mantra as armour, are not troubled by graha afflictions, calamities, diseases, fire, poison,…
Eight kinds of vyantaras and ten kinds of bhavanavasi gods live constantly among human beings through their power of transformation, each recognisable by its own features.
Closing line of the part on the diagnosis and treatment of the grahas that seize children.
Kinnaras of the retinue of these gods, prompted by their masters, afflict by illusion people who live alone or in empty houses, the impure, the wounded or wasting (in the verse), and those…
Many kinnaras, imitating the nature and conduct of their master, follow people with their own behaviours, so that the possessed take on the dress and ornaments of that being.
A person afflicted by a deva behaves like a learned man, shows great devotion to gods and gurus, is fond of fragrances and flowers, is well nourished, has bright unblinking eyes and does…
A person afflicted by an asura reviles gods and gurus, has a crooked gaze, is fearless and proud, sweats, is very harsh, and is never satisfied however much he eats.
A person afflicted by a gandharva plays joyfully in forests, fine mansions, high mountains and river banks and always longs for fragrances and flower garlands.
A person afflicted by a yaksha has a coppery-red face, body, feet and eyes, moves swiftly, is very steady and strong (or wise), grants boons when entreated and has great lustre.
A person afflicted by a wicked bhuta-pitri offers oblations, gifts and water to the ancestors and is greedy for rice pudding, sugarcane, jaggery and meat.
A person afflicted by a rakshasa loves meat, liquor and blood, is very brave, very cruel, shameless and very strong, roams at night, and has swelling and pain.
A person attended by a pishacha has a dusky and very rough body, a harsh donkey-like voice and impure conduct, prattles constantly and longs to live in secluded and empty houses.
A person seized by a naga (uraga) graha crawls on the ground like a snake, licks the corners of the mouth and the lips with his tongue, grows very angry when troubled, and craves milk and…
Devas roam mostly on the full-moon day, asuras and their retinue at the two twilights, gandharvas on the eighth lunar day, yakshas on the first, ancestral bhutas in the dark fortnight,…
The grahas that cause graha disease have wondrous divine forms of many shapes and guises and are inconceivable; out of anger they enter the human body and take control of it by their own…
The afflictions of these great grahas are to be overcome by severe austerity, meditation, mantras, medicines and proven formulas; the good say such means serve to pacify the countless great…
The physician, keeping the vows of restraint and observance, self-control, truth and purity and himself charged with many mantras, should overcome the grahas with their own mantras and with…
Garlic, tagara, asafoetida, vacha, samudraphena, white durva, guduchi, bitter gourd, bimbi, neem, kalihari, trikatu, rock salt, all fragrant drugs, cardamom, white girikarni, bhutakeshi,…
Old ghee cooked with the same drugs is recommended for massage, nasal drops, eye salves and drinks; the patient is bathed in water boiled with them, and fumigation and pastes are made from…
A physician skilled in Ayurveda should quickly conquer all mental (graha-seized) disorders with the drugs described and with similar tasteless, repulsive-looking and very foul-smelling…
The work is described as a drop that has come forth from the great ocean of scripture issuing from the mouth of the Jina, full of waves of all substances and bright with two shores that…
- Chapter colophonइत्युग्रादित्याचार्यविरचिते कल्याणकारके चिकित्साधिकारे क्षुद्ररोगचिकित्सिते बालग्रहभूततंत्राधिकारोऽष्टादशः परिच्छेदःEditorialp. 405
Colophon closing the eighteenth chapter, on child grahas and spirit lore, within the treatment of minor diseases in the Kalyanakaraka of Ugradityacharya, followed by the Hindi colophon of…