The antidotes described above are smeared on the flute, conch, pataha, bheri, mridanga and other instruments, whose sound is said to rid poisoned, nearly dead people of poison.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- वाद्यलेपन द्वारा निर्विषीकरण
- Hindi
- वाद्यों पर अगद लेपकर निर्विष करना
- English
- Smearing antidotes on musical instruments
Ingredients and preparation
How it is used
Applied to instruments that are then sounded.
उनको बांसुरी, शंख, पटह, भेरी, मृदंग आदि वाद्य विशोषों पर लेपन करके उनके शब्द1 से विष पीडित मनुष्यों के जो कि मृत प्राय: हो चुके हैं, विष को दूर करें अर्थात् निर्विष करें।
Indicated for, as the text says
- Poisoning (visha)(विषयुतमनुजान्)
Therapies involvedPaste application (lepa)लेप लगानाProtective rites and spiritual measuresरक्षा विधान (मंत्र, शांति कर्म)
रालिप्तान् वंशशंखप्रकटपटहभेरीमृदंगान् स्वनादै:॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 19 · p. 434 · v. 125.Safety
- Needs a trained practitioner. This procedure or preparation is of a kind that should only be carried out under qualified supervision.
Pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, older adults, kidney or liver disease and other medicines all call for professional advice before any traditional remedy is used.
All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- Footnote on PDF 507: when the whole atmosphere is poisoned and each person cannot be treated, divine antidotes are smeared on drums and beaten loudly; all poison within hearing is said to go at once. The last verse line carries a '(?)' in the source.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 1
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- Chapters
- Chapter 19
- Extraction tasks
- T21
- Record id
- method_vadya_lepa_p506