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The introduction says the saṁprāpti (pathology) of a disease is to be known through the four means just described: its cause, prodromal signs, signs and upaśaya.

Vata joined with kapha and spread through all the vessels makes the body rigid like a staff or bent like a bow; in the outer vessels it bends the body outward and in the inner vessels…

When violent vata torments the tendons of the hands and feet, so that the limbs feel broken and the pain is unbearable, the disease is called gridhrasi; vata in the shoulder region that…

Through wrong conduct (such as reviling gods, teachers and scriptures) or unwholesome diet, vitiated vata takes up aggravated pitta and kapha and, wherever it throws and lodges them,…

Aggravated kapha, pitta and vata, together with fat (medas), reach the bladder and, ripening there, produce prameha; turbid urine then flows out in large amounts and often, which the…

Any one of the doshas, aggravated by its own causes, reaches the vessel that runs into the scrotum and, aided by vata, produces swelling in the scrotum; this is called andavriddhi.

When the arising urge of semen is held back, the semen leaves its place and, finding no outlet, goes astray; driven by vata it enters between scrotum and penis at the mouth of the bladder,…

As mud settles by itself at the bottom of a new pot filled with clear water, kapha that has gone into the bladder settles, is dried hard by heat and is broken by vata into sand-like grains;…

Eating burning, pungent, very hot and dry food in the hot season and long fast riding on chariots, horses, elephants, camels and the like burn the blood and provoke vata; the burnt blood…

Ardita is incurable when the head has trembled for three years, speech comes only after long delay and the eyes do not close. Vata blocking the vessels of one half of the body makes that…

Kushtha, the second of the major diseases in chapter 11, is said to arise from all the vitiated doshas and to take eighteen forms. The text gives its pathogenesis (wrong conduct or…

Prameha is the first of the major diseases treated in chapter 11. The text gives its causes (too much heavy, liquid, unctuous and cold food, day sleep, lack of exertion), its prodromes, its…

Sub-heading that opens the section on prameha; its causes, prodromes, pathogenesis, signs, boils, complications, incurable signs and treatment follow under their own headings.

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…

The introduction says the work discusses for each disease its cause (nidāna), prodromal signs, pathogenesis, treatment and curability in a connected way, sets out many rasa, rasāyana and…