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The Shitaputana graha is described as a graha of children with shivering from cold, crying day and night, sleeping curled up, gurgling bowels, diarrhoea and a raw-flesh smell.

The Shitaputana graha is worshipped near a body of water (pond, river) with food containing mung soup and other dishes, and there the physician who knows mantras bathes the child with…

A child whose body shivers with cold, who cries day and night, sleeps tightly curled up, has gurgling bowels and diarrhoea and a raw-flesh smell is seized by the Shitaputana graha.

A child seized by the Shitaputana graha is made to wear bimbi, gunja and kakadani.

For the Shitaputana graha, worship is offered near a pond or river with food containing mung soup and other dishes, and the mantra-knowing physician bathes the child there with…

Neem leaves, snake slough, sal resin, owl and hare droppings and vajigandha are used to fumigate a child seized by the Shitaputana graha.

Sesame oil cooked with the group of urines (eight kinds, of the cow and others), devadaru and all the fragrant drugs is applied to a child seized by the Shitaputana graha.

The child is bathed with water boiled with kapittha, tulsi, mango, bilva and bhallataka, and anointed with sesame oil cooked with the group of urines (eight kinds, of the cow and others),…

The child is fumigated with neem leaves, snake slough, sal resin, owl and hare droppings and vajigandha (the commentary reads ajagandha, ajwain), and made to wear bimbi, gunja and kakadani…

Ghee cooked with a decoction of the bark of katphala, khadira, the sal-resin tree, neem, bhurja and arjuna and with buffalo milk is given every day to the Shitaputana-seized child.

A child seized by the Shitaputana graha is always bathed with water boiled with kapittha, tulsi, mango, bilva and bhallataka.

Ghee cooked with a bark decoction of katphala, khadira, the sal-resin tree, neem, bhurja and arjuna and with buffalo milk is given daily to a child seized by the Shitaputana graha.