185 - Diseases 

Hari Said: 

1. Om Namo Ganapataye (obeisance unto the Lord of Gaņas). This is the mantra of Lord of Gaņas that gives wealth and learning 

2. After reciting this eight thousand times a man shall tie his tuft and enter litigation. He is sure to win. By repeating this a hundred times he will be a favourite of all men. 

3. O Rudra, repeating this mantra a thousand and eight times the devotee shall offer a thousand and eight libations of black gingelly seeds soaked in butter. The king will be under his control in three days. 

4. The devotee shall observe fast on the eighth and fourteenth days of the lunar fortnight and worship Vighnarät (Ganesha). Thereafter he shall offer a thousand and eight libations of gingelly seeds and raw rice grains. He shall be invincible in battle. All people are bound to serve him. 

5. Having repeated this mantra for eight thousand times and then for eight hundred times the devotee shall tie his tuft and then enter the Royal court or the court of litigation. He is sure to win. 

6. He who repeats this mantra after placing Hrimkara and Visarga (mystically) on the forehead of women is sure to keep them under his control. 

7. With great concentration he shall place the Nyåsa mantras mystically in the organ of reproduction in the maidens and repeat the mantras. There is no doubt in this that he will be able to make the maidens swell with love. 

8. Pure in body and mind he who offers ten thousand libations will be able to keep women under his control by merely looking at them. 

9. He who puts on his forehead a Tilaka with pasted Gorochană Patra, Manahshila and Kunkuma keeps women under his control. 

10. He who puts on his forehead a tilaka with pasted Sahadevi Bhrungaraja, Shveta Parajita and Vachả keeps the three worlds under his control. 

11. He who puts on his forehead a Tilaka by means of sticks made of Gorochana, and Minapitta (gall of fish) with the little finger of his left hand keeps the three worlds under his control. There is no doubt. 

12. She who puts on her forehead Tilaka with Gorochană treated with her own menstrual blood keeps under he control any man whom she sees. There is no doubt. 

13-15. O Hara, O Ishvara, fumigating with a compound of Någeśhvara, Shaileya, Tvak, Patra, Haritaki, Chandana, Kuşhtha, Sūkşhma Aila and Raktaśhāli is a great instrument of fascination through the arrows of Kamadeva (Cupid) O Mahadeva. O Shankara beloved of Parvati, he who after his sexual intercourse takes his semen with his left hand and smears the left leg of his beloved with it becomes her favourite lover. 

16. Smearing the penis with Saindhava, excreta of a pigeon and honey, O Mahadeva, a man can satisfy any woman. 

17. Take five red flowers of any species and equal quantity (by weight) of Priyangu and grind them into a paste. He who smears his penis with this, gives thrilling pleasure to his partner whom he can enslave. 

18 He who smears his penis with a compound of Ašhva. gandha, Manjişhtha, flowers of Mälati and white mustard is loved by women. 

19. The root of Kakajanghå drunk with milk removes pulmonary consumption. They who regularly take a compound of Ašhvagandha, Naga Bala, jaggery and Maşha retain the same health and vivacity of young men. 

20. O Rudra, powdered Triphala alone or with Lohachũrņa taken with honey removes Pariņāmaśhūla. (Gastralgra). 

21. Drinking of boiled water with Shambūkakşhăraka too serves the same purpose. O Shiva, the horn of a deer burnt in fire taken with cow's butter removes cardiac and back pain. 

22. Vrushadhvaja Hingu, Sauvarchala and Shunthi boiled iu water with Mahaushadha and drunk removes all colics. 

23. Root of Apåmärga taken with sea-salt removes impaired digestion and colic. 

24. Sprouts of Vața washed with water with which rice has been washed should be drunk O Rudra, with butter milk. O Shankara, it dispels dysentery. 

25. Bhūtapa, (Shiva) Half Karsha of the roots of Ankota¹ ground into paste with rice washings and drunk removes all sorts of dysentery and diarrhoea.

1. Alangium salvifolium. 

26. Maricha, Shunthi, powdered barks of Kutaja and jaggery taken in increased proportion of twice the former and drunk removes all sorts of diarrhoea. 

27. O Shiva, pills made of a compound of the roots of white Aparăjită, Haridrå, cooked rice, Apamärgå and Trikațuka pasted well undoubtedly remove the great sickness of cholera. 

28. O Bhūtesha, Triphala, Aguru, Shilājatu and Haritaki powdered separately and taken with honey, O Shankara, destroys all sorts of urinary complaints. 

29-30. A Pala each of Manahshila, Maricha and Sindūra ground into powder and cooked in a copper vessel with exudations of Arka and gingelly oil and dried in sunshine and drunk with exudations of Snuhi and Saindhava removes colic. 

31-33. Trikatu, Triphala, Alakta gingelly oil, Manahshila, leaves of Nimba, flowers of Jati, Shankhanābhi and Chandana cooked well in goat's milk and urine and made into sticks should be used as collyrium for the eyes. Wall-eyes, eyecoatings, night-blindness etc. heal. Powdered Vibhitaka taken with honey removes dyspnea. 

34. Pippali, powdered Triphala, honey and Saindhava cure all types of fever, cough, consumption, and chatarrh. 

35. Devadaru powder soaked and purified in goats' urine twentyone times and applied as collyrium to the eyes cures night blindness, eyecoatings and depilations of eyelashes. 

36. O Rudra, a compound of Pippali, Ketaka,² Haridra, Amalaka and Vachă cooked in milk and applied as a collyrium to the eyes cures all ocular afflictions. 

2. Pandanus tectorius. 

37. O Shiva, O Hara, Roots of Kakajangha and Shigru kept in the mouth and chewed well remove all germs in the teeth.