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Therapyचिकित्सा कर्म

Eye nourishing therapy (tarpana, putapaka)

तर्पण (नेत्र तर्पण) · तर्पण

Reference entry

A canonical name in the library. The curated extraction has not reached a passage about it yet; name matches on the source pages are listed below.

Names and synonyms

Sanskrit
तर्पणअक्षितर्पणपुटपाक
Hindi
तर्पणनेत्र तर्पणआंखों में घी भरना
English
Eye nourishing therapyeye nourishing therapynetra tarpanaputapaka
Romanized
tarpanaputapaka

Where else is this mentioned?

Named 8 times on 5 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.

Questions and answers

How does the editorial note explain tarpana and putapaka?

Tarpana is holding eye-beneficial juices or ghee in the eyes of the patient lying on his back; putapaka is juice squeezed from a leaf-wrapped, clay-coated ball of drugs roasted in a cow-dung fire and put into the eyes like tarpana.

Detailed answer and sources

Quick facts

Content type
Therapy
Categories
Local therapy
Source pages with records
0
Pages naming it
5
Record id
method_tarpana