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Upanishads · Gāruḍa 2.12
॥
Devanāgarī
यदि गुलिकदूतोऽसि यदि वा गुलिकः स्वयं सचरति सचरति तत्कारी मत्कारी विषनाशिनी विषदूषिणी विषहारिणी हतं विषं नष्टं विषं हतमिन्द्रस्य वज्रेण विषं हतं ते ब्रह्मणा विषमिन्द्रस्य वज्रेण स्वाहा
Transliteration (IAST)
yadi gulikadūto'si yadi vā gulikaḥ svayaṃ sacarati sacarati tatkārī matkārī viṣanāśinī viṣadūṣiṇī viṣahāriṇī hataṃ viṣaṃ naṣṭaṃ viṣaṃ hatamindrasya vajreṇa viṣaṃ hataṃ te brahmaṇā viṣamindrasya vajreṇa svāhā
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
यदि गुलिक-दूतः असिyadi gulika-dūtaḥ asiif you are the messenger of Gulika
यदि वा गुलिकः स्वयम्yadi vā gulikaḥ svayamor if you are Gulika himself
सचरति सचरतिsacarati sacaratimoving, moving
विष-नाशिनी विष-दूषिणीviṣa-nāśinī viṣa-dūṣiṇīdestroying poison, corrupting poison
विष-हारिणी हतं विषम्viṣa-hāriṇī hataṃ viṣamcarrying away poison; poison is slain
हतम् इन्द्रस्य वज्रेण स्वाहाhatam indrasya vajreṇa svāhāslain by the thunderbolt of Indra — svāhā
Translation
«If you are the messenger of Gulika, or if you are Gulika himself — "moving, moving… destroying poison, corrupting poison, carrying away poison: poison is slain, poison has perished, slain by the thunderbolt of Indra, slain in you by brahman — svāhā».
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Note that in this passage the list of participles adds viṣa-hāriṇī, “carrying away poison,” absent from the earlier ones. A small detail, but it shows how such texts were compiled: the refrain was not fixed word for word, and a copyist would add or drop. Let us add what deserves saying about the order of the participles, for it is no accident.
Viṣa-rūpiṇī — “taking the form of poison”: the knowledge becomes poison, that is, enters into it. Viṣa-dūṣiṇī — “corrupting”: renders the poison useless. Viṣa-śoṣiṇī — “drying up”: takes away its moisture.
Viṣa-nāśinī — “destroying.” Viṣa-hāriṇī — “carrying away”: removes what remains. That is, five actions are listed in order: to enter, to corrupt, to dry up, to destroy, to carry away.
This order, to my mind, is deliberate and shows that the charm was composed by someone who thought of the matter as work, not as a miracle. The Vaiṣṇava side sees nothing wrong in such an order and speaks itself of gradualness; and that obstacles diminish one at a time, not falling away all at once, was discussed reading the Yājñavalkya (12). Let us add the first of the five, for it is more curious than the rest: it is said that the knowledge takes the form of poison.
That is, it conquers not from without, but from within; and this image exists in its own literature too — medicine works by entering the body, not by lying beside it.