Agam 11 Ang 11 Vipak Sutra English Translation

Author(s): Dipratnasagar, Deepratnasagar
Publisher: Deepratnasagar

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VipakShrut- Ang-11- ShrutSkandh-1, Chapter-1
or purgation, (6) Swedan or perspiring, (7) Avadahan or cauterizing with hot metal, (8) Apasnan or washing with medicated water, (9) Anuvasana or enema of medicated oils, (10) Niruha or to cause sweating by applying medicated oil, (11) Vastikarrna or common enema, (12) Shiravedh or bleeding toxic blood by cutting nerve-end, (13) Takshan or scraping of the epidermis with knife or other such instrument, (14) Pravakshan or cutting of the epidermis using special micro-instruments, (15) Shirovasti or covering head with leather bag filled with medicated oil or other such liquid, (16) Tarpan or pouring of medicated oils, (17) Putpaak or use of cooked medicines, (18) Chhaal or medicinal use of bark of trees, (19) Mool kand or use of radish, carrot,potato and other roots, (20) Shilika or herbal medicines like chirayata, (21) Gitika or use of pills or tablets, (22) Aushadh or medicines of vegetable origin and single ingredient, and (23) Bhaishajya or other medicines with many ingredients including those of metallic and mineral origin. However, in spite of all these methods of treatment they could not cure even one single ailment. When these healers got exhausted (shraant), confused or mentally tired (tant), and disappointed (paritant) they returned from where they came.
When the dejected healers expressed their inability to treat, the nursing staff also left him alone. He got tired and dejected of taking medicines. Tired of the sufferings of the sixteen ailments and in a state ofdeep attachment and craving for kingdom, state, and his harem; mentally tormented (artt), physically tortured (duhkhart), and enslaved by sense organs (vashart), that governor Ekadi lived this agonizing life for 250 years. He then died and was reborn as an infernal being among the infernal beings of the Ratnaprabha Prithvi (the first hell) having a maximum life-span of one Sagaropam.
After completing the life-span as an infernal being, the soul that was Ekadi at once took birth as son from the womb of Mriga Devi, the wife of Vijaya Kshatriya.
When that soul descended into the womb of Mriga Devi her body suffered acute and excruciating pain. Since the day child Mrigaputra was conceived she became unpleasant, loathsome, detestable, and repugnant to Vijaya Kshatriya (her husband).
Some days later one midnight when she was awake and worrying about the family, Mriga Devi thought-"Earlier I appeared pleasant, beautiful, lovable, adorable highly desirable to Vijaya Kshatriya. I was cherished and trusted by him. But since this soul has come in my womb as a fetus I have become unpleasant... and so on up to... repugnant to Vijaya Kshatriya. What to say of seeing and sharing moments of enjoyment with me when Vijaya Kshatriya does not want to hear and remember even my name and family now. Therefore, it would be good for me to get rid of this fetus by process of shaatana (to disintegrate and throw out in pieces), paatana (to abort in one piece), gaalana (to dissolve and throw out), and maarana (to kill). Thus she decided to get rid of the fetus by shaatana... and so on up to... maarana and in order to do so she started taking salty or alkaline, bitter and astringent medicines with a desire to be rid of the fetus. But all these efforts failed to destroy the fetus. When Mriga Devi failed to get rid of the fetus, she became tired, exhausted, disappointed, dejected, and sad. Out of compulsion and in a distressed state of mind, she carried the fetus.
That child in the womb had eight arteries flowing inward and eight veins flowing outward. Of these sixteen tubular vessels two pairs each were intermittently emitting pus and blood through holes of ears, eyes, nose, and heart. That boy suffered from a disease Aagam - 11 - Vipak-Shrut
Compiled by - Deepratnasagar
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