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The Kimpurusha graha (Kimpurusha-apasmara) is described as a terrible graha of children marked by repeated fainting, dance-like limb movements, passing much stool and urine, yawning and…

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…

For the Kimpurusha graha the child is bathed at a crossroads and an offering (bali) is made near a banyan tree.

Oil cooked with all the fragrant drugs is used for massage of a child seized by the Kimpurusha graha.

Body hair, hair and nails of bull and man, elephant tusk, and vulture and owl dung, mixed and soaked in ghee, are used to fumigate a child seized by the Kimpurusha graha.

A child seized by the Kimpurusha graha is bathed in water boiled with shirisha, tulsi and bilva.

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.

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.

Ghee prepared with the milky-sap trees such as gular and with sweet drugs is given to the child to drink mixed with milk.

The Garuda graha (called shakuni, bird, in verse 84) is described as a graha of children causing many ulcers and burning blisters, a bird-like smell, slack limbs and fearfulness.

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…

The roots of kaunch, kukkuti, ananta (utpala sariva) and kanduri are worn on the hand or neck by a child seized by the Kimpurusha graha.