Built from passages of the source by the curated extraction. Pending human review.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- जलउदकतोयअम्बुवारिसलिलपानीयअप्
- Hindi
- जलपानीगरम पानीठंडा पानी
- English
- Waterwaterdrinking waterjala
- Romanized
- jalapaniudaka
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Properties6
Water of earth-dominated land is said to taste sour and salty because of the abundance of the earth quality.
Water of water-dominated land is said to be white, clear, sweet, tasty and pleasing.
Water of air-dominated land is said to be pungent (कडुवा) and astringent, and smoke-coloured.
Water of fire-dominated land is said to be pungent and bitter, bright and dusky grey.
Water of space-dominated land is said to be free of any particular colour or taste; it is the best kind and therefore fit to drink.
Water free of taste and smell, clear, very cold, light and sharpening the intellect is said to be fit to drink.
Diet4
The seasonal rules name the drinking water for each season: in spring well or village water, or water heated, clean and cooled; in summer well water; in the rains hot water; in autumn water of rivers, wells, ponds and the like, all suitable; in hemanta almost every kind of water; in śiśira pond water.
Cold water is named as the proper after-drink when eating dishes made of flour paste (piṭṭhī).
Water taken before a meal is said to make one lean, in the middle to keep one moderate, and at the end to make one stout.
In the one-sided view reported by the translation, water, ghee, milk and food are absolutely wholesome; the author replies that if so they would have to be used even in new fever, diarrhoea, kushtha, fistula-in-ano, eye diseases and wounds.
Cautions5
Water arising from great mountains, forests or bad places, or mixed with tree leaves and the like, is called faulty and is not to be drunk.
Water that is not properly fluid, warm, chewable (gritty) or slimy is said to have the fault of touch; very dirty water, or water black with moss, has the fault of appearance.
A foul smell or a fragrance in water is the fault of smell, a distinct taste the fault of taste, and water that even in a small amount causes distension, colic and coryza and increases thirst has the fault of potency.
Water that is not digested quickly and suddenly causes constipation is said to have the fault of digestion (pāka), the sixth of the six faults of water.
Not all water is fit for bathing and drinking, some being like poison; ground water in the rainy season is said to cause many kinds of severe disease.
Physiology1
Water is said to be the external life-breath (bāhya prāṇa) of living beings and the main cause in the formation of milk and other liquids, and therefore the chief of all liquids.
Other1
A footnote cites another work describing water as life (jīvana), satisfying (tarpaṇa) and good for the heart (hṛdya).
Find everywhere it is used
Open in the usage explorerFormulations containing it
28Remedies using it
28Procedures using it
22Given as vehicle or after-drink
14Taken with or after these preparations.
Conditions mentioned with it
55Conditions named in the preparations that use it, or linked to it directly.
Organs and systems mentioned
25Other ingredients used together
24Count of shared preparations.
Topics of the text that discuss it
26Course sessions
3Questions and answers
2Plant glossary entries
3Related entries
8Where else is this mentioned?
Named 346 times on 196 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- PDF page 9Front matter… ू़म शरीरी प्राणी को भी देखे तो मालूम होगा कि उसके श्लेष्म भय शरीर में जल का अंश रहता ही है। वह अपने आहार को ग्रहण कर उसका पचन करते हुए अपने शर …
- PDF page 16Front matter×2… नाम से भी कहा जा सकता है, उसका भी विचार आयुर्वेद शास्त्र ने किया है। जल, वायु, रहने का स्थान, काल इत्यादि का विचार जानपदीक आरोग्य में करना पड …
- PDF page 21Front matter… के स्थास्थ्य लाभ की प्रतीक्ष है”” परन्तु भवितव्य बलवान है। बीज बोया , पानी का सचिंन किया, पाल पोसकर अंकुर को वृक्ष बनाया। वृक्ष ने फल भी छोडा, म …
- Book page 9Chapter 1… Ô (रिष्ट) समझाना चाहिए। पÜचेन्द्रियों में विकार हो जाना व मल और कफ को पानी में डालने पर डूब जाना यह सब उस रोगी के मरण के चिह्नÔ हैं। रिष्ट सूचक …
- Book page 10Chapter 1… षत, कमल, कुक्कुट, मयूर, खेल व विनोद में मग्न स्त्रियाँ, हाथी व स्वच्छ पानी से भरा हुआ घडा, बैल, घोडा आदि आवें तो प्रशस्त हैं। शुभ शकुन हैं। इनसे …
- Book page 17Chapter 2×2… ्राम के बाहर बहुत दूर में कुँआ हो और वह भी बहुत उणडा (गहरा) हो, उसमें जल भी अत्यन्त दुर्लभ हो, उनमें से मनुष्य जल बहुत कठिनाता से यंत्रों की स …
- Book page 18Chapter 2… का लक्षण कह चुके हैं। अब अनूप देश का लक्षण कहेंगे। अनूप देश में ठणडा पानी अधिक होता है। इसलिए वहाँ की जमीन सदा कीचड से युक्त रहती है। जिस देश म …
- Book page 19Chapter 2×2… दि का वृक्ष हो और ताड, हिंताल आदि वृक्षों से युक्त तट वाले एवं स्वच्छ जल से पूर्ण सरोवर, नदी आदि हों, जहाँ के सरोवर वापी नदी शरत्काल के आकाश क …
- Book page 20Chapter 2… 9॥ भावार्थ : जिनके सेवन से मनुष्य को सुख होता हो ऐसे औषधि, साधारण देश जल, रोग, शरीर आदि एवं और भी सुखकारक पदार्थ सात्म्य कहलाते हैं। इसके विरु …
- Book page 21Chapter 2… ीन दिन तक पति उस स्त्री का संस्पर्श नहीं करें। चैथे दिन में वह स्त्री पानी में प्रवेश कर अच्छी तरह स्नान कर लेवें, तदनन्तर वस्त्र, आभूषण व सुगंध …
- Book page 24Chapter 2×2… मल के दुगँध से परिवासित, अंतस्थित रसों को, चारों तरफ से पीता है, जैसे पानी के घडे में रखा हुआ मुर्दा चारों तरफ से पानी को ग्रहण करता हो। (इस आहा …
- Book page 32Chapter 3×3… यन्त शीत प्रदेश, अत्यन्त उष्ण प्रदेश अत्यन्त हिमयुक्त प्रदेश, अत्यधिक जल युक्त प्रदेश, निर्जल, विरूप प्रदेश, निस्सार रूक्ष, क्षुद्र वृक्षों के …
Questions and answers
Why does the Hindi rendering of the hitahita chapter hold that no substance is wholesome or unwholesome in every respect?
Because by substance, place, time and state things have many-sided natures; if water, ghee, milk and food were wholesome in every way, they would have to be used even in new fever, diarrhoea, kushtha, fistula-in-ano, eye diseases and wounds.
Detailed answer and sourcesWhich senses does the glossary give for क्षीर, and which entries after it gather milky plants?
Milk and the gum of the सरल tree in the Hindi column, and water, milk, बकाण निंब, the milk of a cow that has just calved, खीर and a kind of incense in the Marathi column. क्षीरद्रुम, क्षीरी, क्षीरिका and क्षीरिणी then list milky trees and plants.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
- Chapter 4 · p. 49 · v. 12-15
- Chapter 4 · p. 51 · v. 18
- Chapter 4 · p. 51 · v. 19
- Chapter 4 · p. 61 · v. 47
- Chapter 5 · p. 63 · v. 3
- Chapter 5 · p. 63 · v. 4
- Chapter 5 · p. 63 · v. 5
- Chapter 5 · p. 63 · v. 6
- Chapter 5 · p. 63 · v. 7
- Chapter 5 · p. 64 · v. 8
- Chapter 5 · p. 64 · v. 9
- Chapter 5 · p. 64 · v. 10
- Chapter 5 · p. 64 · v. 11
- Chapter 5 · p. 65 · v. 15
- Appendix: Hitahita · p. 623
Quick facts
- Content type
- Food
- Categories
- WaterBeverage
- Source pages with records
- 7
- Pages naming it
- 196
- Extraction tasks
- T03, T30
- Record id
- ingredient_jala