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Jīva, not further explained, is listed among very sour fruits said to pacify vata, provoke blood, produce pitta and kapha, be heavy and unctuous, cause salivation, cleanse impurities and be…

A complication of excessive purification in which life-giving blood (jivashonita) comes out; the text gives a test to tell it from raktapitta and treats it with cooling measures and cold,…

Jīvantī (जीवंतीलता) heads a list of greens described as binding the stool and producing vata.

When atiyoga increases, the life-blood (jivashonita) flows out in excess; the Jinas call this jivadana. It is treated by the method given for atiyoga of purgation.

The commentary calls the soul, named puruṣa, the basis on which treatment with its great benefits rests.

हिन्दी: बकायन वृक्ष · मराठी: प्राण, जीवकादिगण, बृहस्पति

हिन्दी: पारा · मराठी: पारा, जीव, धनी

हिन्दी: जीव, रासना · मराठी: कलखापनी, जीभ, स्वदन

Jīvantī, aloe (taruṇī), vidhārā, vandā, mañjikā, kundalatā, cañcu and kundru are described as binding the stool and producing vata; māriṣa, the two kinds of spinach, vahā and jīvantī as…

The soul is called jīva because, holding the vital powers (prāṇa), it lives now, lived before and will live again and again.

If the purifying medicine brings out life-giving blood (jivadana), cooling treatment and cold, blood-stopping drugs are used. A dry purifier taken by someone with indigestion and much vata…

Jivadana is treated according to the method described for atiyoga of purgation.

Blood smeared on a cloth that keeps its colour after washing with hot water, and that a dog eats when it is mixed with sattu, is life-blood; otherwise it is raktapitta.

Equal parts of manjishtha, licorice, both drumsticks, turmeric, lac, realgar, orpiment, ingudi, cardamom and renuka are powdered, mixed with the urines (the commentary: eight kinds) and the…

The commentary lists the fourteen classes of living beings (jīvasamāsa) of Jain doctrine: one-sensed subtle and gross, two-, three- and four-sensed, and five-sensed beings without and with…

The soul is called jīva because, having obtained the vital powers of body and the rest, it lives, will live again and again in the future and lived in the past.

The excessive flow of life-blood when the atiyoga of an enema increases; it is treated by the method given for atiyoga of purgation.

The text says it revives even a person close to death; it is kept in a horn.

Animal (jaṅgama) poison is described as very dreadful and of sixteen kinds by its seat in the creature, with the creatures that carry each kind; it has the same ten qualities as immobile…

The commentary says gods born in the upapāda bed and those attaining a final or excellent body obtain, by their merit, long-lived bodies that poison, weapons and the like cannot cut short,…

The introduction says that in the human body, whose dhātus are the most developed, the pratimūladhātus are present together with ojas-like essences (dhātusāra-teja), but the three dhātus…