Essentials of Panchakarma Therapy
author: Pulak Kanti Kar
edition: 2013, Chaukhamba Sanskrit Pratishthan
pages: 1445
Topic: Ayurveda
Ghati yantra
This chapter describes Ghati yantra located on page 804 from volume Volume 4 in the book Essentials of Panchakarma Therapy compiled by Pulak Kanti Kar. This book presents a Comprehensive view of Panchakarma and includes therapeutic modules and references for the Ayurvedic practitioners. Panchakarma registers the mechanism of the action of Ayurvedic drug..
Volume 4 deals with the principles and Practice of Panchakarma:—The subject is presented in such a way that Ayurvedic people can realise the matter with a ration vision and can perform the therapy in daily practice.
This book fully covers every detail related to Panchakarma (methods for eliminating toxic elements from the body). For example, this chapter describes Ghati yantra. The five methods are known as Vamana (‘emesis’), Virecana (‘purgation’), Asthapana (‘non-unctuous enema’), Anuvasana (‘unctuous enema’) and Shiro-Virechana (‘head-evacuation’ or ‘snuffing’).
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Ghati yantra” according to 76 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
The Garuda Purana [by Manmatha Nath Dutt]
Life is transitory; and each moment, the Ghati-yantra (a timemeasuring apparatus somewhat like our modern clock) of the heart ticks out the footfalls of approaching Death. He, who looks at another’s wife as his own mother, at another’s goods as (worthless) brickbats, and upon all men as similarly susceptible to impressions of pleasure and pain as his own self, sees but right. Kings desire realms, O lord of the Brahmanas, only for the end that their commands might not be frustrated....
Read full contents: Chapter CXI - Commendable traits in kings etc. (in the Nitisara)
Harshacharita (socio-cultural Study) [by Mrs. Nandita Sarmah]
The writer Bana uses the word yantra many times to indicate machines. Different types of machines, i. e. , yantra, are mentioned by the writer, and they are— ghatiyantra (i. e. , water-clock for measures of time or water wheel,p. 42,139), nadika, tulayantra (Water wheel,p. 120), vyaghrayantra (tiger traps,p. 123), golayantraka (machines as like globes,p. 78) etc. Again in the description of Vyaghraketu he is compared to a moving pillar of solid stone cut out from a mountain by a machine....
Read full contents: 18. Description of Machines and Tools
Garga Samhita (English) [by Danavir Goswami]
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning: क्सनो युगत्वम् व घति मह-मते प्रयति मन्वन्तरतम् व्रजौकसम् यमच् च कल्पम् च दिनम् विन हरिम् वियोग-दुह्खैर् द्वि-परर्धतम् गतम् ksano yugatvam va ghati maha-mate prayati manvantaratam vrajaukasam yamac ca kalpam ca dinam vina harim viyoga-duhkhair dvi-parardhatam gatam ksanah—a second; yugatvam—the status of a yuga; va—or; ghati—a half-hour; maha-mate—O noble-hearted one; prayati—attains; manvantaratam—the status of a manvantara; vrajaukasam—of...
Read full contents: Verse 5.13.33
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[Essentials of Panchakarma Therapy: index]
[About the Author (Pulak Kanti Kar)]
[Introduction vol 1 (essentials of Panchakarma)]
[Introduction vol 2 (applied Instruments in Panchakarma)]
[Introduction vol 3 (mechanism of Panchakarma)]
[Introduction vol 4 (practice of Panchakarma)]