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Among the factors to be weighed in treatment, the introduction says time (kāla) is of three kinds: cold, hot and rainy.

Emesis is given in the moderate season (the commentary: the early rains, autumn and spring, without great cold or heat), on the morning after the evening meal, by giving emetic drugs as…

In the moderate season (neither very cold nor very hot: the early rains, autumn and spring, per the commentary), on the morning after the meal, the physician gives emetic drugs in a proper…

If untreated, kapha-type adhimantha destroys sight in seven days, vata-type in six, blood-type in five (or three) days, and the fierce pitta-type at once.

The prayogika smoke is to be taken daily after bathing, eating, sleeping, sexual intercourse, passing stool, sneezing, vomiting and cleaning the teeth; the doshas are said to be aggravated…

Devas roam mostly on the full-moon day, asuras and their retinue at the two twilights, gandharvas on the eighth lunar day, yakshas on the first, ancestral bhutas in the dark fortnight,…

Ultimate time is described as powerful and unavoidable, beginningless and endless, subtle, indivisible and formless, marked by vartanā, the moment-to-moment change it supports in all…

Ripening by means (upāyapāka) is forcing karma to rise before its time through excellent, severe austerities and other pure practices, and it gives its fruit at once; ripening by time…

Ten times for taking medicine are named: without food (nirbhakta), before the meal (pragbhakta), after the meal (urdhvabhakta), in the middle of the meal (madhyabhakta), between meals…

Castor oil cooked a hundred times with milk, ginger juice and jati juice, or prepared with the juice of black shigru or of punarnava, said to destroy mahodara.

As the time taken to circle the knee once with the hand and snap the fingers.

Just as the fruits of trees ripen by themselves and are also ripened by intelligent people through means, aggravated doshas are said to ripen in two ways: through means (treatment) and…

Sesame oil cooked with decoctions and pastes of all vata-reducing trees, passed through burnt earth and recovered, then cooked a thousand times with sour liquids, curd, milk and…

Oil pressed from black sesame soaked many times in bala-root decoction and dried is cooked again and again with a hundredfold quantity of bala decoction; taken by the rasayana regimen to…

Oil pressed from black sesame soaked many times in bala-root decoction is cooked again and again with a hundredfold quantity of bala decoction; called Shatapaka Bala taila, taken by the…

Ripening the doshas by giving medicines that remove the unripe state (āma) of the disease is called ripening by means. Ripening by themselves within their own period, without medicine, is…

Foot three years, shank two years, knee one year, thigh ten months, waist seven months, belly four months, neck one month, hand fifteen days, arm eight days, shoulder three days, and chest,…

Mixed in one kudava of breast milk (16 tola in the commentary), drunk in the morning.

Ground is burnt with dried vata-reducing trees, sesame oil cooked with their decoction and paste is poured on it and left overnight, and the oil-soaked earth is boiled next day to recover…

Devas on the full-moon day, asuras at the twilights, gandharvas on the eighth lunar day, yakshas on the first, ancestral bhutas in the dark fortnight, rakshasas and (per the commentary)…

The night regimen opens with the times for intercourse. A healthy man may have intercourse once a day in the cold season, and in the hot season, keeping his strength in mind, once in five,…

Innumerable instants (samaya) make one āvalī, numerable āvalīs one ucchvāsa, seven ucchvāsas one stoka, seven stokas one lava and thirty-eight lavas one nāḍī. A footnote defines a samaya as…

The editor says historians give Śaka 736 (Vikrama 871, 815 CE) as the time of Amoghavarṣa's accession, and that Guṇabhadrasūri's Uttarapurāṇa shows this Amoghavarṣa (I) was a disciple of…

Pratimarsha on rising clears the night's waste from nose and mouth and heavy sleepiness; on going out it wards off wind, sun, smoke and dust; after tooth-cleaning it firms the teeth, scents…