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Principles of treatment (chikitsa sutra)
चिकित्सा सूत्र · चिकित्सासूत्र
The introduction says the secret of treatment is to perform the particular action by which the body's dhātus return to balance (a footnote quotes Caraka Sūtra to this effect); the whole…
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Chapter seven: the section on the principles of treatment
सातवाँ परिच्छेद: चिकित्सासूत्राधिकार · अथ सप्तमः परिच्छेदः / अथ चिकित्सासूत्राधिकारः
Opening lines of the seventh chapter, whose running head calls it the outline of diseases (vyādhisamuddeśa) and which begins the section on the principles of treatment. It opens with the…
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Examination of the patient (rogi pariksha)
रोगी परीक्षा · रोगिपरीक्षा
The introduction says nidāna, pūrvarūpa (prodromal signs), rūpa (signs), upaśaya and saṁprāpti are called the five means of diagnosis (nidāna-pañcaka), and that diseases are to be examined…
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Ayurveda (science of life)
आयुर्वेद
The introduction says no definite time can be given for the origin of Ayurveda, the science of life, because the need for it begins wherever living beings have life; since it is essential…
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The physician (vaidya)
वैद्य (चिकित्सक) · वैद्य
The editor reports the author's explanation of the word vaidya (chapter 1, verse 18): vidyā is omniscience (kevalajñāna), which reveals the characteristics of the soul (jīva) and all other…
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An outline of diseases
व्याधिसमुद्देश
Opening lines of the seventh chapter, whose running head calls it the outline of diseases (vyādhisamuddeśa) and which begins the section on the principles of treatment. It opens with the…
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Closing statement of chapter nine
नौवें परिच्छेद का अंतिम कथन · अन्तिम कथन
The work is likened to a drop drawn from the great ocean of scripture that came from the mouth of the Jina, whose waves are all substances and principles and whose two shores are the means…
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Closing verse and colophon
अंतिम कथन और पुष्पिका · अन्तिम कथन
The closing verse calls the work a drop from the great ocean of scripture that issued from Jinendra's mouth, full of waves of all substances and principles and bounded by the two shores of…
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Closing verse and colophon of chapter 23
अंतिम कथन और अध्याय 23 की पुष्पिका · अंतिम कथन
The closing verse calls this work a drop drawn from the ocean of scripture that came from the mouth of the Jina, full of waves of all substances and principles, with two shining shores that…
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Kalyanakaraka (the treatise)
कल्याणकारक ग्रंथ · कल्याणकारक
Ugraditya says he set out this science drawn from the Pranavada, with the doshas, the severe diseases they cause and their remedies, after learning it by the grace of Shrinandi Acharya, who…