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What are the four pillars (pādas) of treatment in the Kalyāṇakāraka, and which of them is the chief?

कल्याणकारक के अनुसार चिकित्सा के चार पाद कौन से हैं और उनमें मुख्य कौन है?

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The physician, the patient, the medicine and the attendants; the wise physician is the chief.

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Verse 28 says that what the sages call kriyā is treatment and that it rests on four components endowed with their qualities: the physician, the patient, the medicine and the attendants who serve the patient. The commentary adds that the wise physician is the chief, because without him the other three are useless.

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