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Herb
Gopa
बोल · गोपा
Glossary entry
गोपा
कालांसर
हिन्दी: कालांसर · मराठी: श्वेत व काळी उपलसरी
Needs review
The introduction is dated 1-2-1940 and signed by Gangādhar Gopāl Guṇe (Vaidyapañcānana,…
The introduction is dated 1-2-1940 and signed by Gangādhar Gopāl Guṇe (Vaidyapañcānana, Vaidyacūḍāmaṇi), former president of the Nikhil Bhāratīya Āyurveda Mahāmaṇḍala and Vidyāpīṭha, editor…
Food
Cow milk (go-ksheera)
गाय का दूध (गोक्षीर) · गोक्षीर
Cow milk is one of the eight kinds of milk, all said to be wholesome for all beings.
Mineral
Earth and clay (mrittika)
मिट्टी (मृत्तिका) · मृत्तिका
For the earth kalpa the text takes the earth that birds eat every day.
Herb
Sariva (Indian sarsaparilla)
अनंतमूल (सारिवा) · सारिवा
Glossary entry
आढकी
शमीधान्य विशेष
हिन्दी: शमीधान्य विशेष, अडहर, गोपीचन्दन · मराठी: तरी, सोरटी माती, तुरटी
Glossary entry
चिर्भट (चिर्भटी)
ककड़ी
हिन्दी: ककड़ी · मराठी: गोपाळ काकडी, काकडी
Condition
Bleeding disorder (raktapitta)
रक्तपित्त
Raktapitta is described as blood, corrupted in the liver and spleen by vata and pitta after vata, injury or heat, flowing upward, downward or both ways. Its prodromes, incurable and fatal…
Symptom
Discolouration (vaivarnya)
वैवर्ण्य (रंग बदलना) · वैवर्ण्य
The body suddenly turning dark (and weak), with the face becoming round like a lotus and an indragopa-like mark appearing on the cheek, is listed as a sign that the person lives only seven…
Principle
Fatal signs (arishta)
अरिष्ट (मरणसूचक लक्षण) · अरिष्टलक्षण
The introduction says the work includes a section on fatal signs (riṣṭādhikāra), full of secrets known through the yoga practice of great sages.
Principle
Rakta dhatu (blood tissue)
रक्त धातु · रक्तधातु
Blood is counted along with the doshas and called a dosha; because it is vitiated by vāta and the other vitiators, the same blood is also called a tissue (dhātu).
Symptom
Weakness (daurbalya)
दौर्बल्य (कमजोरी) · दौर्बल्य
Kheer cooked from milk mixed with shilavalka powder, eaten constantly, is said to make even a very weak person very strong within a month.
Topic
Acknowledgements
कृतज्ञता
The editor thanks the two physician friends who revised the text, Pt. Anantarājendra Śāstrī of Mumbai and Pt. Bindumādhav Śāstrī of Ahmednagar, Pt. Gaṅgādhar Gopāl Guṇe Śāstrī for writing…
Needs review
Acknowledgements: the first revision of the text was made by Āyurvedācārya Pt. Anantarājendra…
Acknowledgements: the first revision of the text was made by Āyurvedācārya Pt. Anantarājendra Śāstrī, a noted Mumbai physician and chief physician of the Di. Jain Auṣadhālaya, Bhuleshwar,…
Topic
Incurable signs of raktapitta
रक्तपित्त के असाध्य लक्षण · रक्तपित्त का असाध्य लक्षण
Raktapitta is incurable and soon kills when the vomited blood is blue or very black, mixed with much pitta, burnt-looking, hot, putrid, like meat juice, coloured like a rainbow or like the…
Topic
Sign of death within seven days
सात दिन में मरण का चिह्न · सप्त रात्रिक मरण चिह्न
When the body suddenly becomes weak and dark, the ordinary face suddenly becomes round and charming like a lotus, and a mark like an indragopa insect appears on the cheek, the person is…
Topic
Signs of blood vitiated by the doshas and of pure blood
वात आदि से दूषित और शुद्ध रक्त के लक्षण · वातादि से दुष्ट व शुद्ध शोणित का लक्षण
Blood vitiated by vata is very dark, frothy, thin and quick to flow; by pitta it is blue, very yellow or black, foul-smelling and shunned by insects, mosquitoes and flies; by kapha it is…
Topic
Special features of the present work
प्रकृत ग्रन्थ की विशेषता · प्रकृत ग्रन्थ का वैशिष्ट्य
The closing section of the introduction says the Kalyāṇakāraka is finely composed and its many formulas are new and distinctive; it covers the cause, prodromes, pathogenesis, treatment and…
Question
Who prepared the 1940 edition, and who made it possible?
1940 का संस्करण किसने तैयार किया और किसके प्रयत्न से यह सम्भव हुआ?
Pt. Vardhamān Pārśvanāth Śāstrī edited and translated it; Pt. Anantarājendra Śāstrī of Mumbai and Pt. Bindumādhav Śāstrī of Ahmednagar revised it; Vaidya Pañcānana Pt. Gaṅgādhar Gopāl Guṇe…