Rules of food and drink
अन्नपानविधि · स्वास्थ्यरक्षणाधिकार
Chapter five opens with the subtitle 'section on liquid substances' (dravadravyādhikāra); its running head names the chapter अन्नपानविधि, the rules of food and drink.
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- 134–144
Topics in this session
Headings from the book in reading order. Open a topic for its summary and the knowledge it refers to.
Bowing to the Arhat, lord of Jinas and sages, skilled in explaining substances, endowed with the eye of pure omniscience and the three eyes of right faith, knowledge and conduct, the author…
The five elements are said to cause the manifestation of tastes in every substance; where water predominates in their mixture the substance becomes liquid. Since all five interpenetrate in…
- The section on water; earth-dominated land and its waterअथ जलवर्गः / पृथ्वीगुण बाहुल्य भूमि का लक्षण व वहाँ का जलस्वरूपDietp. 62
The section on water begins. Land dominated by the earth quality is very hard and heavy, black or dark, full of stones, big grasses and trees and coarse crops; its water is sour and salty,…
Land dominated by the water quality is cool and white, with soft grasses and trees and unctuous, juicy crops; its water is white, clear, sweet, tasty and pleasing.
Land dominated by the air quality is hard, uneven and dry, brown or dove-grey, with mostly tasteless grasses, poor crops and hollow trees; its water is pungent (the commentary writes कडुवा)…
Land dominated by the fire quality shows many fine colours and hot minerals, clean grasses and crops and few pale sprouts; its water is pungent and bitter, bright yet dusky grey in colour.
Land with the space quality is level and soft, without holes or pits, graced with sparse, straight, tall trees such as sarala and sān; its water has no particular colour or taste, is the…
Water without taste or smell, clear, very cold, very light and sharpening the intellect is fit to drink; water from great mountains, forests or bad places, or mixed with leaves and the…
Water that is not properly fluid, is warm, gritty enough to chew or slimy has the fault of touch; water heavy with dirt or black with moss has the fault of appearance.
A foul smell, or even a fragrance, in water is the fault of smell; a distinct taste is the fault of taste; and water that, even drunk in small amount, brings on distension, colic and coryza…
Water that does not digest quickly after drinking and suddenly causes constipation has the fault of digestion (pāka). Having named these six faults, the author turns to the means of…
Water is purified by rubbing in clearing nut (kataka), adding linseed flour, boiling, quenching red-hot iron in it, setting it in sunlight by day and moonlight at night, and straining it;…
Not all water is fit for bathing and drinking; some is like poison. Ground water in the rainy season is said to cause many severe diseases, while rain water caught from the sky before it…
Boiled water, drunk lukewarm and free of foam and dirt (the commentary: the boiled water of the rainy season), is said to destroy breathlessness and cough, fat, kapha, vata and āma, to…
- The section on prepared food and drink; properties of yavāgūसिद्धान्नपानवर्गः / यवागू के गुणDietp. 65
The section on prepared foods and drinks begins. Yavāgū (gruel) is said to digest all food, kindle digestion, cleanse the bladder, suit thirst, destroy vata, remove aggravated pitta,…
Maṇḍa is said to increase kapha, to be very nourishing, aphrodisiac and tasty, to remove disorders of vata and of raktapitta, and to be clear; thick maṇḍa is heavy, strengthening and very…
Green gram soup is said to remove fever, to increase vata (as the commentary renders the verse), and to destroy raktapitta and kapha; prepared with fats such as ghee or oil it also calms…
Green gram soup is said to suit those whose impurities and doshas have been removed by emesis and similar procedures, those wasted by wounds, the very thirsty, those heated by the sun or…
The section on milk begins. Milk is of eight kinds—of the she-camel, buffalo, cow, ewe, goat, doe, mare and woman; because these animals eat many trees, grasses and well-known herbs whose…
Milk in general is described as sweet, cold, unctuous and very aphrodisiac, destroying disorders of blood and vata, thirst, pitta, fainting, diarrhoea, breathlessness, cough, wasting,…
Milk drunk warm straight from the udder (dhāroṣṇa) is said to be like nectar; milk boiled and drunk warm removes kapha and vata; boiled and cooled it calms pitta; milk taken in any other…
Milk is called the unequalled kindler of digestion and the chief food of every being from birth; drunk warm it purges (the commentary: it brings on motions), while boiled and cooled it…
Curd is described as hot and sour, destroying vata, removing kapha, producing pitta, countering poison, kindling digestion, making the body unctuous, causing a burning sensation (vidāhī),…
Buttermilk is described as light, hot, sour, astringent and dry, kindling digestion and destroying kapha; it is also said to provoke pitta and vata (the line begins with the word शुक्लं,…
Udaśvit is curd churned with an equal part of water; well made, mixed with fragrant substances, cooled, strained through fine cloth and clear as water, it is said to remove all diseases and…
Khala is buttermilk cooked well with pepper and other pungent substances and tempered with ghee or similar fat, made fragrant; it is said to remove kapha and vata disorders, kindle…
Fresh butter is described as cold, sour and sweet, strongly aphrodisiac, kapha-producing and removing pitta and vata disorders; it is said to be wholesome for those wasted by consumption or…
Ghee is described as of great potency, cold, aiding digestion (the commentary's rendering of विपाकि), tasty, destroying all three doshas and a rasāyana; it increases lustre, strength and…
Oil is described as producing pitta, astringent and sweet, strongly aphrodisiac, very sharp and the foremost kindler of digestion, good for the hair, brightening the body's complexion, and…
Sour gruel (sauvīra, kāñjī) is described as sour, cold only to the touch but burning inside; it kindles digestion, expels urinary stone, breaks up gulma and similar swellings, removes vata,…
Urine is of eight kinds, from the cow, goat, buffalo, horse, donkey, camel, elephant and ram. All of them are described as destroying worms, pungent, bitter and hot, dry and light, and…
Alkali is said always to share the properties of urine. It overcomes kushtha, tumours, nodules, kilāsa, painful urination, piles, corrupted wounds and all worm diseases, and by its fiery…
This closes the account of the properties of liquid substances. The physician is told to explain in the same way the properties of the other wholesome, approved and pleasing foods and…
In general, warm water drunk after any food is called the one medicine. The verse names sauvīra (kāñjī) for bitter foods and sour buttermilk for salty foods; the commentary adds only that…
Sour foods take a salty after-drink, and pungent foods a bitter and astringent one. Milk is called a wholesome after-drink with every taste.
With astringent fruits and tuber and leaf vegetables a sweet after-drink is wholesome, and with foods that are plainly sweet an after-drink of pungent substances is best. A footnote notes…
People's cravings for tastes differ and shift with what they have eaten most. The physician should therefore give as an after-drink whatever each person craves, is wholesome for them and…
After eating, one washes the hands, rubs them together a little and with them puts a little water to the eyes; this is said to help the eyes, sharpen sight and remove various eye diseases.…
After eating and rinsing the mouth well, one takes astringent, bitter and pungent things, such as areca nut, catechu, clove, musk and betel, or a pleasant smoke, to clear the kapha that…
The closing verse likens this work to a drop drawn from the great ocean of scripture that came from the mouth of the Jina, an ocean whose waves are all substances and principles and whose…
- Colophon of chapter 5: rules of food and drink (Annapānavidhi)इत्युग्रादित्याचार्यकृत कल्याणकारके स्वास्थ्यरक्षणाधिकारे अन्नपानविधिः पंचमः परिच्छेदः।Otherp. 72
The colophon closes the fifth chapter, Annapānavidhi, in the part on protecting health of Ugrādityācārya's Kalyāṇakāraka, with the Hindi line naming the Bhāvārthadīpikā commentary of…