Sushruta Samhita Uttaratantra Chapter 27 Navagrahakrti Vijnaniya (Knowledge of Navagrahas)

The 27th chapter of Uttaratantra of Sushruta Samhita is named as Navagrahakrti Vijnaniya Adhyaya. This chapter deals with the Knowledge of Navagrahas.

Then we shall explain the middle of the knowledge of the diseases in the nose.
as the Lord said, Dhanvantari.

We will now expound the chapter by name Navagraha Akrti Vijananiya -Knowledge of features of Navagraha (nine evil- spirits which seize children) as revealed by the venerable Dhanvantari.

Children's nursery school equipment.
Hear with one mind the origin and the cause.

The knowledge about Balagrahas i.e. evil spirits seizing the children, their genesis (origin) and management (treatment of children seized by grahas) shall now be enumerated. Now listen attentively to the same dear Sushruta!

Graha Nama – sankhya – names and number of Grahas

Skandagrahastupratham: Skandapasmaraevach.
Shakunirevatichaivaputanachandhaputana..4..
Putananashaitanamachatathaivamukhamandika.
The ninth Monaigamesha is called the Pitragraha ||5||

The names of the nine grahas are as mentioned below –

– Skanda Graha,

– Skandapasmara,

– Sakuni,

– Revathi,

– Putana,

– Andhaputana,

– Sitaputana,

– Mukhamandika and

– Gamesa or pitragraraha

Grahana Karana – Cause for seizing children

They are devoid of auspicious conduct and are deprived of cleansing from the treatment prescribed by the mother alone.
They were frightened and delighted and threatened and worshiped the young men who had worshiped them.

Causes –

– Indulgence of dhatri – wet-nurse and Matru – mother in improper conduct in relation to the foods and activities as previously described in Sarira Sthana section – chapters 2 & 10

– Negligence towards maintenance of cleanliness,

– Negligence in performing auspicious rites

How do Grahas affect? –  Due to the influence of the above said causative factors, the grahas i.e. evil spirits desiring worship would cause harm to the children when children are either agitated, overjoyed, frightened or being beaten.

They were in the form of the universe by human beings who were able to enter the body of the opulence.
The words of the obtained, looking at it, they will become in the body of the others.

Due to their great wealth i.e. divinity, human beings cannot see the entry of grahas into the body. The words of aptas (learned men / scholars, sages – who speak only truth always and have special knowledge about everything) will help us to understand the signs of their entry (by the description given by the aptas in the treatises).

Skanda grahajusta sisu laksana – features of child seized by skandagraha:-

He has a wrinkled eyes, wounded, scented, scented, whispering, whispering, moving with one eyelashes.
Udvignahsululitachakshuralparodiskandatonbhavatichapadhamushtivarchah ||8||

Signs and symptoms found in the child seized by Skanda Graha –

– Swelling of eyes,

– Smells like blood,

– Aversion to the breast (breast feeding),

– Irregular / distorted face, eyelids and eye of any one side of the face, with either loss of movements or more movements,

– Agitation (irritable),

– Eyes are closed,

– Child cries very little,

– Child holds its fists tightly and has

– Hard faeces

Skandapasmarajusta sisu laksana – features of child seized by skandapasmara

He becomes unconscious again, and he is dancing with his hands and feet, as if he were dancing.
He creates in feces and urine and yawning, and he is overcome with his friend.

Signs and Symptoms found in children seized by Skandapasmara (friend of Skanda) Graha –

– Loss of consciousness and regain of consciousness again,

– Irritability,

– Dance like movements of arms and legs,

– Child cries while eliminating feces and passing urine,

– Excessive yawning,

– Froth is eliminated from the mouth

Sakunigrahajusta sisu laksana – features of child seized by sakuni graha

He was frightened by both his limbs and smeared with birds and straightforward
The body is known by the explosions and the cooking of the baby is to be understood by the baby.

Signs and symptoms found in children seized by Sakuni Graha –

– Child has debilitated arms, legs and other parts of the body,

– Fear struck,

– Smells like bird,

– Troubled by many ulcers exuding pus, blood etc.,

– Body studded with eruptions (blebs, vesicles),

– Burning sensation and

– Formation of pus

Revatigrahajusta sisu laksana – features of child seized by revati graha

He was dirty with red face and a very white body, and he was suffering from the pain of cooking the mouth of the fever.
The boy was afflicted with the pole of the deer and the deer, who was not disturbed by the whisper.

Signs and Symptoms of child affected by / seized by Revati Graha –

– Child has reddish face,

– Green colored feces,

– Body is either yellowish, white or blue in color,

– Fever,

– Ulcers of mouth,

– Severe suffering,

– Rubbing of ears and nose often

PutanaGrahaJusta sisu laksana – features of child seized by putana graha

The smell of the sleeping body of sleep, which is the pleasure of the night, creates the fragrance of the two nights, the smell of the whisper.
The young man, whose body is painful, has a pain, and the young man becomes thirsty.

Signs and Symptoms occurring in the child seized by Putana Graha

– A weak body,

– Child does not sleep well during day or night,

– Voids loose feces,

– Body smells like that of a crow,

– Vomiting,

– Frequent horrors

– Profound thirst always

The apotanenaagraity is implemented – Forha

He who hates the breasts, the excessive essence, the cough, the coughs, the fever, the fever.
The physicians should say that he who is ill-colored, constantly below, acidic smells, and those who are suffering from the blind and son.

Signs and symptoms occurring in child  seized by Andhaputana Graha –

– Aversion to the breast (breast milk),

– Diarrhoea,

– Hiccup,

– Vomiting,

– Fever,

– Bad or abnormal color of the body,

– Lies (sleeps) with face down and

– Emits sour smell

Sitaputanagrahajusta sisu laksana – features of child seized by sitaputana graha

The chickens of the scene slipped away from the trembling trembling and swallowing it with great trembling
Visraṅga is very exceedingly exceedingly exceedingly exceedingly absorbed in the throat and the cold and the son of the sun.

Signs and Symptoms found in child seized by Sitaputana Graha –

– Child is highly restless / irritable,

– More shivers,

– Cries greatly,

– While sleeping, huddles inside of the bed,

– Has gurgling noise in the intestine,

– Foul smell emitted from the body of the child,

– Severe diarrhea

Mukhamandikagrahajusta sisu laksana – features of child seized by mukhamandika graha

They were tender, beautiful, hands, feet, hair, swords, spots, wrapped in the abdomen.
The fragrance of the urine is like anxiety and is known as the child in the order of the body.

Signs and Symptoms of child seized by Mukhamandika Graha –

– Withering (fade, weak) of body parts,

– Hands, feet and face appear brilliant,

– Child eats more food,

– Ugly network of veins are visible on the abdomen,

– Child is irritable,

– Body of the child emits smell of urine

gamerahajusta sisu laksana – Features of Child Seized by Aggesa

He who is fond of foam and is exceedingly humbled in the middle of the throat and looks at him up.
The fragrance of the fever-end, the fragrance of the garment, becomes unconscious, and is accompanied by a sheep.

SIgns and Symptoms found in a child seized by Naigamesa Graha –

– Frothy vomiting,

– Child stretches its body often,

– Child often cries with restlessness,

– Child has upward gaze,

– Continuous fever,

– Smell of muscle fat emitted from the body of the child and

– The child is unconsciousness

The stunned one enters the breasts of the enemy and enters.
That child is soon the grasp of the grasp of death and the whole characteristic.
The opposite is therefore achievable and healed.

Graha exhibiting the below mentioned features will kill the child soon –

– Rigidity of the body,

– Aversion to breast,

– Unconsciousness often

If the graha has opposite features and if the seizure is of recent origin, it is curable and hence should be treated.

Samanya cikitsa – general treatment

In the house, the Puranas, the sacrifices, the children, the Shuchauchi, the Aprayajya.
The mustard seeds should be scattered with the oil of these oils.
One should offer oblations of offerings to the Lord who is always present.
It was decorated with fragrant flowers and garlands of all fragrances and herbs.
From the fire to the fires, the Svahasvahati is continuous.
Obeisance to the lord of the planets, the lord of the planets.
I bow down to the head and accept the Amebali.
They were quickly born of the sickness of the sickness of the baby.

The child should be given abhyanga – anointing / massage with old ghee.

The child should be kept in a clean place and covered with clean cloth.

Mustard should be spread all around the child.

A lamp should be lit using mustard oil and kept near the child.

A fire altar should be made. Fire God and Krttika should be worshipped by offering oblations of Sarvagandha i.e. fragrant substances (like camphor, cardamom etc), adorned with garlands prepared of seeds of plants like mustard, barley, rice etc. Worship should be accompanied by uttering of ‘Svaha’ all the time.

Prayer – ‘I bow my head to you O God, the chief of Grahas. Please accept the oblation offered by name. Please relieve this child from sufferings and abnormalities quickly’.

This is the twenty-seventh chapter (Chapter 1) in the Śrī Suśruta-samhita, entitled Vagraha-kṛti-vijnaniya, in the form of a planet.

Thus ends the twenty seventh chapter by name Navagrahākṛti vijñānīya in Uttara Sthana of Suśruta Samhita.