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Principleसिद्धांत

stages of life

वय · वयस्

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Names and synonyms

Sanskrit
वयस्अवस्था
Hindi
वयअवस्थादशा
English
stages of lifeage

What the text says

Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.

Classification1

  • Human age is divided into four stages: childhood, youth, middle age and old age; over a full life of a hundred years a person passes through ten phases, changing phase every ten years.

    Chapter 2 · p. 14 · v. 8Hindi commentaryTraditional description

Diet1

  • A newborn first lives on its mother's milk alone, after some months takes both mother's milk and food, and later food alone; in the other stages, in health, ordinary meals are proper.

    Chapter 2 · p. 15 · v. 10Hindi commentaryTraditional description

Physiology1

  • Childhood grows into youth and further phases follow, through which, the commentary says, skin, bone, semen, strength, intellect and the senses develop and are experienced differently in each stage.

    Chapter 2 · p. 15 · v. 9Hindi commentaryTraditional description

Other1

  • A footnote records the variant reading tvag-akṣi (skin and eye) for the verse's tvag-asthi (skin and bone).

    Chapter 2 · p. 14 · v. 9FootnoteTraditional description

Where else is this mentioned?

Named 64 times on 43 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.

All references

Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.

Quick facts

Content type
Principle
Source pages with records
2
Pages naming it
43
Chapters
Chapter 2
Extraction tasks
T02
Record id
concept_vaya