Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

The brief enumeration of diseases due to varying measures of faults serves inLesson XVII. (See pp. i8p — 194*

The attenuation or loss of the constituent elements of the body is treated of in Lesson XVII. See p. 194.

The diseases called Pidaka are mentioned in Lesson XVII. See p. 194.

Fir Vidradhi, see pp. 195 — 198.

The three kinds of Inflammations occur in Lesson XVIII. See p.p. 200 — 209.

The diverse kinds of diseases that supervene upon inflammations have been treated of in Lesson XIX. See pp. 21 1 — 213.

The eight and forty kinds of disease-heads occur in Lesson XIH. See pp. 213 -

219. The summary occurs in p. 219, in Verses 45 and 46.

The hundred and forty varieties of diseases of diverse groups are mentioned in Lesson XX. See p. 222. Eighty are diseases of the Wind ; forty are of Bile ; and twenty of Phlegm. — T.

t The censurable incidents of excessive fatness and excessive leanness, &c., are treated of in Lesson XXI. See pp. 233—33.

Sleep both beneficial and otherwise, insomnia, and excessive sleep, with their causes and treatment, occur in Lesson XXI, See pp. 208 — 243.

CHA RA KA-SA Mil IT A.

p. 407

They are also well skilled in certainty of conclusions respecting the ordinances about food ; those kinds or modifications of food that are beneficial by nature and those that are otherwise, with the abstract that has been given of what articles are regarded as the foremost of their own groups or classes ; the four and eighty kinds of wines ; the ascertainment of the qualities of diverse objects in connection with their tastes, principal or true and subsidiary or unmanifest, along with their combinations that are harmonious or otherwise ; the twelve groups of food and drink, with their qualities and energy, with Anupanas and their qualities, and the nine kinds of food in brief ; the course which food takes (after it enters the stomach) ; the beneficial and injurious effects that result from wholesome and unwholesome food ; and the diseases that appear in consequence of the faults being excited in this or that Dhatu, together with their remedies ; and the ten substrata of the lifebreaths. They are also well versed in what shall be indicated in the Thirtieth Lesson called “That about the ten great roots (or ducts),” and in the indications of the purposes of the entire Science of Life as treated of in the medical scriptures. They are equally versed in the acquisition, retention, correct interpretation, and application of those scriptures as also in treatment, effects of drugs and remedial opera¬ tions, time, agents, and means as laid down in those scriptures.*8

The six curative operations or remedies beginning with Langhana occur in Lesson XXII. See pp. 248 — 250.

The diseases born of over-indulgence in practices that are sedative and nutritive are treated of in Lesson XXIII. See pp. 250 — 57.

Diseases born of vitiated blood, with Insanity, &c., are treated of in Lesson XXIV. See pp. 257 — 266. — T.

* The ordinances in respect of food are laid down in Lesson XXV. See pp.

272—73.

The modifications, beneficial and otherwise, of food are laid down in the same Lesson. See pp. 273 — 75.

The four and eighty kinds of wines have been laid down in Lesson XXV. See pp. 290-95.

The qualities of diverse objects in connection with their Tastes, principal and subsidiary, together with their combinations that are harmonious and the reverse, have been treated of in Lesson XXVI.

The twelve groups of food &c. are indicated in Lesson XXVII.

The course which food takes and the other topics connected with it are set forth in Lesson XXVIII.

The ten substrata of Life-breaths occur in this very Lesson, vis., XXIX.

p. 408

CIIA RA KA-SAMHITA.

They are well endued with memory, intelligence, (medical and other) scriptures, capacity for drawing inferences, and (general) knowledge.

In consequence, again, of the disposition and accomplishments of their souls, they behave towards all creatures after the manner of mother and father and brother and kinsmen without ever speak¬ ing harshly towards them, and manifesting a friendship for them that comes from the heart.

For these reasons, O Agnivega, such physicians are called companions of the Life-breaths and destroyers of diseases.3

Those that are possessed of opposite qualifications are com¬ panions of diseases and destroyers of the Life-breaths.

These men, wearing the robes of physicians, are the thorns of the world. Behaving after the manner of those whom they imitate, those persons, through the heedlessness of kings, move about in all countries.*