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Health is said to be the means of dharma, artha, kama and moksha; without it a person, however steadfast and brave, cannot practise dharma, earn wealth, enjoy pleasures or reach liberation.
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Medical science is said to be taken up for health, which is marked by balanced dhatus and the like, lustre, energy and strength; when the four aims are lost the person's very existence is said to be lost, and the sick cannot even study the science of health. The closing section adds that the muni who studies this science secures health, the cause of the bliss of liberation, and that holy men can keep to their path of restraint only with a body free of disease.
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- Content type
- Question
- Source pages with records
- 3
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Appendix: Hitahita
- Extraction tasks
- T30
- Record id
- qa_T30_04