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Vira Simhavaloka · by Virasimha
Chapter 5 · Grahani: the stars
ग्रहणी — ज्योतिःशास्त्रम्
अत्र उदरामया ग्रहण्यादयः तदुपशान्तये चंद्रप्रीतये जपहोमादिकं कुर्यात् । इमं देवा इति मंत्रेण जपः स्वशाखोक्ततल्लिङ्गमंत्रेण वा व्याधितारतम्येन तिलाज्यपलाशसमिद्भिर्होमः शंखदानं च स्नानं च ।
Here the belly ailments are grahani (bowel trouble) and the like. To ease them, and to please the Moon, do japa (repeating a mantra), homa (fire offering) and the rest. Use the Vedic mantra that begins "imam deva" for japa. Or use the mantra for the Moon told in one's own Vedic branch. The homa is with sesame, ghee and palasha (flame of the forest tree) samidh (sacred firewood). It depends on how heavy or light the illness is. Give a conch, and take a snana (ritual bath).
Classical view, not medical advice.
अन्यच्च जातके ।
Also, in a jataka (birth chart reading) text: In the dasha (planet period) of the waning Moon, the learned should note these signs. Belly ailment…
यथाहश्रीपतिः —
As Shripati says: Mix the five cow products with elephant rut fluid, conch, pearl-oyster shell, white water lily and crystal. This snana (ritual…
भुजाभ्यां मुक्ताफलं धार्यं पायसं नैवेद्यं निवेदयेत् तेनोपशान्तिर्भवति ।
A pearl should be worn on both arms. Offer payasa (rice cooked in milk) as naivedya (food offering). By this the trouble eases.