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The Pishacha graha is described as seizing children, who waste while eating much, with a handsome face, veins on the belly, soft palms and soles and a smell of urine; affected adults are…

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…

Ghee cooked with the eight sweet drugs (kakolyadi), licorice, bamboo manna and milk is given to drink to a child seized by the Pishacha graha.

A garland or pouch made of the feathers of the nilakantha bird, vulture and peacock and of snake slough is put on a child seized by the Pishacha graha.

For the Pishacha graha an offering of coloured rice (varnapuraka bali) is made, and the child is bathed in the middle of a cowshed according to the verse, or in a room according to the…

A child seized by the Pishacha graha is bathed well with water boiled with kuberaksha (patala), arka, bamboo, gandharvahasta, aragvadha and bilva.

A child seized by the Pishacha graha is fumigated constantly with vacha, kushtha and sal resin.

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…

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.

After the bath, oil cooked with vata-removing drugs is applied to the body of the Pishacha-seized child.

Graha affliction is described as seizure by spirit beings (vyantaras and grahas), who the text says trouble people from enmity, for play or wishing to kill, and enter those who neglect…

Fumigation with cow horn (named in the verse), asafoetida, black pepper, arka, palasha, snake slough, good dry ginger, chasha feathers, cotton seed, white mustard and peacock feathers is…

A fumigation of cow horn, asafoetida, black pepper, arka, palasha, snake slough, dry ginger, chasha feathers, cotton seed, white mustard and peacock feathers is said to destroy graha fever…

Devas on the full-moon day, asuras at the twilights, gandharvas on the eighth lunar day, yakshas on the first, ancestral bhutas in the dark fortnight, rakshasas and (per the commentary)…

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,…