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The living being is said to experience, without effort, the fruit of the merit and sin earned by its own karma, and the aggravation and calming of vata, pitta and the other doshas are named…

Carambola (kamrakh; verse karmaraṅga) is listed among very sour fruits said to pacify vata, provoke blood, produce pitta and kapha, be heavy and unctuous, cause salivation, cleanse…

Nature, time, the planets, karma, fate, the creator, merit, God, fortune, sin, destiny, the ender, necessity and Yama are all said to be other names for karma done in past births. So when…

Therefore the wise are said to call the practice that calms one's karma, such as worship of the deity and meditation, the real treatment that calms disease. One's karma ripens in two ways:…

To pacify all groups of disease four kinds of procedure are named: fire (agnikarma, cautery), the knife (shastrakarma, surgery), caustic alkali (ksharakarma) and medicine (aushadhakarma).

The living being is said to experience, without any effort, the fruit of the merit and sin earned by its own karma, and the aggravation and calming of vata, pitta and the other doshas are…

Driven by its karma, the child emerges through a passage described as unfit even to speak of: smeared with impure faeces, urine, blood and secretions, foul-smelling, hairy, downward-facing…

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…

Kshara karma is called the foremost of sharp and accessory instruments. The text gives its two kinds, how a weakened kshara is restored, the blackening that shows proper burning, washing…

Driven by its karma, the child is said to leave the womb through a passage unfit even to describe, where impure faeces, urine and blood flow, smeared with secretions, foul-smelling, hairy,…

The verse compares surgery to the eight kinds of karma of all embodied beings and lists its eight acts: excision, incision, scraping, puncturing, probing for unseen arrows and other foreign…

Heading that opens the description of cauterisation with fire (agnikarma).

हिन्दी: कमरख · मराठी: नीव, कर्मर

Title lines of chapter 21, which opens the Uttaratantra (supplementary section). From the next page the running head names the chapter कर्मचिकित्साधिकार, the chapter on therapeutic…

The complication in which a purifying medicine goes neither up nor down or acts too little; the text gives its causes, signs and stepwise management.

The editor says one manuscript records a mantra to be recited when taking medicine, and quotes it: verses praying that, in a body much afflicted by disease, the medicine may be the supreme…

The introduction calls surgery (śalya) one of the principal limbs of Ayurveda and says Suśrutācārya set it out in a systematic, scientific way; many surgical treatises existed earlier, by…

After emesis, kapha in the head is quickly cleared with nasal drops (nasya), gargles (gandusha), eye salve (anjana) and fluids; then the patient is bathed with hot water and fed suitable…

Once the measured fluid has been introduced the nozzle is withdrawn slowly. After the fluid has come back out, the patient is given a meal with milk and soups (yusha) in the afternoon (the…

Fire is called sharper than caustic, curing from the root diseases that kshara, medicine or knife cannot cure. It is not applied to ligaments, bones and joints; the burning means are bone,…

For a patient properly oleated, sweated and given emesis who is to be purged next day, the physician gives on the previous day (in the morning, per the commentary) a small meal that is…