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Principle
soul
आत्मा
The commentary calls the soul, named puruṣa, the basis on which treatment with its great benefits rests.
Topic
This view of the soul is essential for treatment
आत्मा का उपर्युक्त स्वरूप चिकित्सा के लिए अत्यावश्यक है
Only a physician whose doctrine describes the soul in this way can give treatment that brings happiness: if the soul were wholly permanent no treatment would be needed, and if wholly…
Question
Why does the text say the soul must be understood through syādvāda for treatment to be possible?
ग्रंथ के अनुसार चिकित्सा संभव होने के लिए आत्मा को स्याद्वाद से समझना क्यों आवश्यक है?
Because if the soul were wholly permanent no treatment would be needed, and if wholly momentary there would be no one to treat.
Topic
The nature of the soul
आत्मा के स्वरूप का विवेचन · आत्मस्वरूप विवेचन
The soul, whose nature is knowledge and perception, is said to be bound since beginningless time to a body made by its own karma, and so to be in some respects formless and in some respects…
Topic
The soul as both permanent and changing
आत्मा का नित्य-अनित्य आदि स्वरूप · आत्मा का नित्यानित्यादि स्वरूप
Though permanent and indestructible, the soul is said to change through modes such as birth, old age and death, and so is also impermanent. It has many excellent qualities, is the seat of…
Topic
The soul as doer, enjoyer and body-sized
आत्मा का कर्तृत्व आदि स्वभाव · आत्मा के कर्तृत्व आदि स्वभाव
The soul is said to be always the doer of all its acts and the one who itself experiences the fruit of its own past karma, to be without beginning or end, to stay within the size of its own…
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The soul is called jīva because, having obtained the vital powers of body and the rest, it…
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.
Topic
The soul is the size of its own body
आत्मा अपने देह के परिमाण का है · आत्मा स्वदेह परिमाण है
The soul is said to be neither the size of an atom, nor of a grain, nor of a thumb, nor a yojana in extent, nor spread through the whole world; it is always the size of its own body.
Symptom
Pain (shula)
शूल (दर्द) · शूल
A pricking pain that moves about in the abdomen is given as the brief sign of aggravated vāta.
Organ
Head
सिर (शिर) · शिरस्
Principle
Embryology and conception (garbha)
गर्भ (गर्भोत्पत्ति) · गर्भ
During her period a woman should, like an ascetic, wholly give up violence and the other four sins and keep silence and similar vows; for three days she avoids garlands, ornaments and…
Principle
Prakriti (body constitution)
प्रकृति (शरीर प्रकृति) · प्रकृति
The introduction says prakṛti means keeping the body in its original state. The bīja dhātu is formed by the union of śukra (the male seed) and ārtava (the female seed), and the body is…
Principle
Rasa panchaka (five pharmacological attributes)
रस पंचक · रसपञ्चक
The text calls faulty the one-sided views of those who see substance, taste, potency and post-digestive effect as separate: if taste, potency and vipaka were different from the substance…
Principle
Ultimate health (paramartha svasthya)
परमार्थ स्वास्थ्य · परमार्थस्वास्थ्य
The editor reports that the author distinguishes ultimate (pāramārthika) health from practical health, and defines ultimate health as the imperishable, supra-sensory and unequalled bliss of…
Principle
Health (svasthya)
स्वास्थ्य
The publisher's note opens with the saying 'the body is indeed the first means of dharma' and says that a healthy body is necessary for religious practice, and that only through a healthy…
Principle
Life span (ayu)
आयु (जीवन काल) · आयु
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,…
Principle
Pranavaya (Jain medical canon)
प्राणावाय
The publisher's note says that the speech of the Vītarāga Lord contains Ayurveda for the sake of religious practice, but that because of the faults of the present age many of those…
Principle
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…
Principle
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…
Topic
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…
Topic
Derivation of the word jīva (living being)
जीव शब्द की व्युत्पत्ति
The soul is called jīva because, holding the vital powers (prāṇa), it lives now, lived before and will live again and again.
Topic
Derivation of the word vaidya
वैद्यक शब्द की निरुक्ति
The editor reports the author's derivation (chapter 1, verse 18): vidyā is omniscience (kevalajñāna), which reveals the nature of the soul and all other things; the work arises from that…
Topic
How conception takes place
गर्भोत्पत्ति का क्रम · गर्भोत्पत्ति क्रम
When the couple unite with care on the fourth day, the man's semen reaches and mixes with the woman's blood (rajas) in the womb; if conception is to occur, the beginningless, endless,…
Topic
How constitution arises
प्रकृति की उत्पत्ति
When the soul enters the mixture of semen and blood in the womb, the dosha that predominates in it at that moment forms the person's constitution: a pitta-predominant mass gives a child of…