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Principle
stages of life
वय · वयस्
Human age is divided into four stages: childhood, youth, middle age and old age; over a full life of a hundred years a person passes through ten phases, changing phase every ten years.
Topic
The stages of life
अवस्थाओं का विचार · अवस्था विचार
The Jinas divide age into four stages: childhood, youth, middle age and old age. In the present (Kali) age a person's full life is about a hundred years, passing through ten phases of ten…
Topic
Diet in the different stages of life
विभिन्न अवस्थाओं में भोजन का विचार · अवस्थान्तर में भोजन विचार
A child first lives on its mother's milk alone, after some months takes both milk and food, and later food alone; so there are three kinds of diet for children, while in the other stages…
Topic
What the stages of life bring
अवस्थाओं के कार्य
The first phase is childhood, which grows into youth, and further phases follow; the commentary says that through them skin, bone, semen, strength, intellect and the senses develop and are…
Topic
Chapter 2 begins (Garbhotpattilakṣaṇa, signs of conception)
द्वितीय परिच्छेद का आरम्भ (गर्भोत्पत्तिलक्षण) · अथ द्वितीयः परिच्छेदः
Opening line of the second chapter, whose running head and colophon name it Garbhotpattilakṣaṇa. It treats the two kinds of health, balance, the stages of life, the digestive fire,…
Principle
Non-violent diet and avoidance of meat in medicine
अहिंसक आहार (मांस निषेध) · मांसनिषेध
The introduction says that the treatment portion of the Kalyāṇakāraka resembles Caraka to a large extent, apart from the parts dealing with honey, wine and meat.
Condition
Plant and mineral poisons (sthavara visha)
स्थावर विष · स्थावरविष
Immobile (sthāvara) poison is described as tenfold by the part in which it resides, each kind with its own signs; tuber poisons are thirteen, and all are said to kill untimely.
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…
Condition
Snakebite (sarpa visha)
सर्प विष (सांप का जहर) · सर्पविष
Snake poison is called the most dreadful of animal poisons; snakes are of five kinds, divine serpents poison by sight and breath and earthly snakes by their fangs, and the text lists why…
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…
Session
Conception and the growing embryo
गर्भोत्पत्तिलक्षण
Opening line of the second chapter, whose running head and colophon name it Garbhotpattilakṣaṇa. It treats the two kinds of health, balance, the stages of life, the digestive fire,…
Topic
Seven stages of darvikara poisoning
दर्वीकर विष के सात वेगों के लक्षण · दर्वीकरविषज सप्तवेग का लक्षण
In darvikara poisoning the text lists seven stages: the poison blackens the blood, then affects the flesh, then causes heaviness of the eyes and headache, then reaches the abdomen and…
Topic
Seven stages of mandali poisoning
मंडली सर्प विष के सात वेगों के लक्षण · मंडलीसर्पविषजन्य सप्तवेगों के लक्षण
In mandali poisoning the blood turns yellow in the first stage; in the second the flesh is affected, eyes and face turn pale and the mouth bitter; then come thirst, high fever and intense…