Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 60
Hanumān-mantra-kathana: Mantra-bheda, Nyāsa, Yantra, and Prayoga
तिलाज्यक्षीरमधुभिर्महिषीगोसमृद्धये । किं बहूक्तैर्विषे व्याधौ शांतौ मोहे च मारणे ॥ ६० ॥
tilājyakṣīramadhubhirmahiṣīgosamṛddhaye | kiṃ bahūktairviṣe vyādhau śāṃtau mohe ca māraṇe || 60 ||
With sesame, ghee, milk, and honey one promotes prosperity in buffaloes and cows. What need is there to say much more? These same applications are used against poison, in disease, for pacification rites, for delusion, and even for rites of destruction.
Sage Narada (teaching in a technical/ritual context to the Sanatkumara tradition)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: vira
Secondary Rasa: bhayanaka
FAQs
It highlights how specific sattvic substances—sesame, ghee, milk, and honey—are treated as potent ritual media (dravya) for welfare-oriented outcomes like livestock prosperity, while also being employed in broader remedial and pacificatory applications.
Indirectly: it reflects the Purana’s practical framework where ritual remedies support dharmic living; such stability (health, protection, prosperity) is presented as conducive to sustained worship and disciplined spiritual practice.
Mantra-prayoga and karma-kanda procedure: the verse points to prescribed ritual substances (dravya) used in śānti-karma and allied remedial rites, a technical application aligned with Vedic auxiliary disciplines and traditional ritual manuals.