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What comparison does the text use for protecting the body with medicines?

औषधियों से शरीर की रक्षा के लिए ग्रंथ कौन-सी उपमा देता है?

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As a king protects his city from enemies with his army and weapons, a person should protect the body from the enemy of disease with medicines.

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Verse 49 adds that one who ignores the medicines and conduct taught here lets the body, the abode of dharma and happiness, be spoiled by the doshas and perish; verse 50 says that with a healthy body gained through medicine, practising dharma well brings the aims of life in the next birth.

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Chapter 25
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