After the meal the hands are washed and rubbed together a little, and a little water is put to the eyes with them, that is, the eyes are touched with the wet hands; this is said to help the eyes, bring brightness and remove various eye diseases. Touching and lightly rubbing the face with the rubbed hands every day is said to make the face radiant like a lotus and to remove facial vyanga, tilakālaka, nīlī and many other conditions.
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- भोजन के पश्चात् विधेय विधि
- English
- Touching the eyes and face with wet hands after a meal
Ingredients and preparation
Ingredients
| Ingredient | As written in the text | Quantity as written |
|---|---|---|
| Water (jala)जल (पानी) | सलिल / जल | Not stated |
How it is used
Water is put to the eyes with the washed, rubbed hands, and the face is lightly rubbed with the hands, every day after meals.
भोजन के अनंतर हाथों को धोकर, उन्हीं को परस्पर थोडा मलकर अैर उन्हीं से थोडा जल आँखों में डालना चाहिए अर्थात् जलयुक्त हाथों से आँख का स्पर्श करना चाहिए।
Indicated for, as the text says
- Eye disorders (netraroga)(नाना प्रकार के विरुद्द इ़ारोग)
- Facial pigmentation (vyanga)(व्यंग, नीली)
- Tilakālaka (a facial skin condition)(तिलकालक)
पशचाद्दैतकरै प्रमथय सलिलं दद्यात्सुच़ुप्रदं।Source wording as converted, Chapter 5 · p. 71 · v. 43.Questions and answers
What does the text advise doing with the hands right after a meal, and what is it said to achieve?
Wash the hands, rub them together, touch the eyes with the wet hands and rub the face lightly; this is said to help the eyes and make the face radiant.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- The commentary starts on PDF p.143 and ends on p.144. नीली is mapped to condition_vyanga, which the lexicon lists with नीलिका.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 5
- Extraction tasks
- T03
- Record id
- method_bhojanottara_netra_mukha_sparsha_p143