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Vira Simhavaloka · Chapter 46
गुल्म — कर्मविपाकः
This is the Gulma karmavipaka chapter of Vira Simhavaloka, on the past-life deed the text links to this trouble. The text gives amends of a milk fast for one month, and a gold image of Ganesha given to a priest.
Classical view, not medical advice.
Another cause is told from the Padma Purana.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
Gulma (abdominal lump) - past deeds
अथ गुल्मरोगस्य कर्मविपाके प्रकारमाह तत्प्रतीकारं च यथोक्तम् । गुरुभत्यर्थी वातगुल्मवान्भवति ।
Next, the text tells the result of past deeds for gulma (abdominal lump), and its remedy. The text says one who sought what belonged to his teacher's household may get a wind-type gulma.
Gulma (abdominal lump) - past deeds
अस्य प्रतिक्रिया वातगुल्मवान्यदि भवति तर्हि मासमेकं पयोव्रतमाचरेत् । मुंचामीत्यनेन सूक्तेन प्रत्यृचं चरुघृताभ्यामयुतं जुहुयात् । वात आवातुभेषजमिति जपेत् अन्नदानं च कुर्यात् ।
The remedy for this is as follows. Say his gulma (abdominal lump) comes from vata (the wind humour). Then he should keep a payovrata (milk fast) for one month. He should offer charu (rice offering) and ghee ten thousand times. He does this with the sukta (Vedic hymn) that begins "munchami", verse by verse. He should do japa (repeating a mantra) of the Vedic mantra that begins "vata a vatu bheshajam". He should also give food as a gift.
Gulma (abdominal lump) - past deeds
प्रकारांतरमपि दर्शयति पद्मपुराणे गुल्मी स्यादंत्यजागमने ।
The text shows another cause too. The Padma Purana speaks of an antyaja (a person of the lowest caste, in the old social order) woman. One who went to her may get gulma (abdominal lump).
Gulma (abdominal lump) - past deeds
वोधायनः — सौवर्ण राजतं ताम्रं कारयेत्कांस्यतोऽपि वा ।तथार्कमूलकाष्ठेन विघ्नेशं कल्पयेन्नरः ॥
Baudhayana says: A man should make Vighnesha (Ganesha) of gold, silver, copper or bronze. Or he can make him of the wood of the arka (crown flower plant) root. (Our text is unclear here: the word for bronze is printed in an odd form.)
Gulma (abdominal lump) - past deeds
पुष्करं कारयेद्धैमं सौवर्ण लोचनद्वयम् ।आखुं प्रकल्पयेत्तस्य यथादेवविनिर्मितम् ॥
Make the tip of his trunk of gold, and his two eyes of gold. Also make his mouse, as the god's form is.
Gulma (abdominal lump) - past deeds
नागयज्ञोपवीतं च कल्पयेत्तस्य गुल्मवान् ।अनंतरं सुवासोभिश्चंदनागरुधूपितम् ॥
The one with the lump should also make a snake as his sacred thread. Next [dress the image] in fine clothes, with sandalwood, agaru (aloe wood) and incense.
Gulma (abdominal lump) - past deeds
सहिरण्यं ब्राह्मणाय स्वशक्तया पूजिताय च ।कृतहोमाय शांताय सर्वशास्त्रार्थवेदिने ॥
[He gives it] with gold to a priest whom he has honoured as he can. The priest has done the homa (fire offering), is calm and knows the meaning of all the shastras (sciences).
Gulma (abdominal lump) - past deeds
मंत्रेणानेन विधिवद्दक्षिणाभिमुखाय च ।विनायक गणेश त्वं सर्वदेवनमस्कृत ॥पार्वतीनंदन श्रेष्ठ मम गुल्मं विनाशय ।
[He gives it] by the rule, with this mantra, to the priest who faces south. "Vinayaka, Ganesha, bowed to by all the gods, dear son of Parvati, best one, destroy my lump."
This is the mantra for the gift.
Gulma (abdominal lump) - past deeds
कृतहोमेन दानेन नीरोगो जायते नरः ॥
The text says that by the homa (fire offering) and the gift, the person becomes free of the illness.
This is the method of the gift to Vinayaka that eases the lump disease.
Unit 46.8 gives the image of Vinayaka with a mantra to a priest who faces south. Unit 46.9 calls this the mantra for the gift.