The daily conduct set out for a patient under treatment: on rising, plan the day's medicines and food, keep faith and alertness and follow the physician in everything; keep vows and restraints, recite mantras such as the mṛtyuñjaya and take a vow, for a set period, of worshipping the Jina image; listen to religious stories, practise charity and compassion, feed monks, wish all beings well, give up sinful acts and free caged creatures. The text holds that diseases arise from sin and that one devoted to dharma is freed from sin and so from disease.
Names and synonyms
- Hindi
- रोगी की दिनचर्या
- English
- The patient's daily routine
Ingredients and preparation
प्रात: समुत्थाय यथोचितात्मा। नित्यैषधाहारविचारधर्म:॥ आस्तिक्यबुद्दिस्सतताप्रमत्तस्सर्वात्मना वैद्यवचोःनुवर्ती॥ 24॥Source wording as converted, Chapter 7 · p. 95 · v. 24-29.What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Regimen4
On rising each morning the patient should consider which of his medicines to take at what time and what to eat, keep a believing mind, stay always alert, and in every way carry out diet, conduct and other activities as the physician intends.
Every day he should keep the yama and niyama vows, keep reciting mantras such as the mṛtyuñjaya, control the senses, and take the vow that he will protect himself by worshipping the Jina image; the verse says the vow is taken for a set period.
Day and night he should listen to religious stories, stay devoted to compassion and charity, and peacefully satisfy groups of monks with good, sweet food and drink.
The patient should always wish everyone well and love all, give up every sinful act completely, and out of compassion free mice and other creatures held in bonds and cages.
Note: The verse and commentary carry the editor's query mark (?) at an unclear phrase about beings fallen from dharma.
Other1
One who purifies his soul by such good conduct and is devoted to the Jina and the Jina scriptures is said to attain peace and happiness; sins leave him from afar, so how could the snare of diseases come near him?
Questions and answers
How should the patient's house and bed be arranged?
The house should be in an auspicious place, protected, clean, guarded and stocked with medicines; the bed new, wide and curtained, with the patient lying head to the east or south.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- After verse 29 an unnumbered half verse has only two quarters; the footnote says only these two were found on checking two manuscripts.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Procedure
- Source pages with records
- 2
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 7
- Extraction tasks
- T07
- Record id
- method_rogi_dinacharya_p167