An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita, Vol. III: Uttara-tantra — trans. Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna (1916)

* The reference is to chapter LXIII, but there the number is sixty-three and not sixty -two. The three Dhdtus V£yu, Pitta and Kapha, in their normal state, cannot properly be called Doshas. The slate in which all the three Dhitus are in their normal state, is said to be the 6yrd. combination (see also para. & below).

t The sixteen sub-strata are the five elementary principles, {viz — Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether) and the eleven sense-organs.

Chap. LXVi ]

UTTARA-TANTRA.

4*5 stances (Dravya) is five hundred and seventy-three, - these have already been explained in detail. The three qualities {viz,, Sattva, Rajas and Tamas) have also been explained in connection with the (three) different Doshas {viz., Vdyu, Pitta and Kapha) which arc generally said to have sixty-tw> combinations. 6—8.

Different Comblnationsof Doshas The three Doshas separately have three combinations, viz,, where one of the Doshas is aggravated and the other two are in their normal state. Taken two at a time, both of them aggravated, whether equally or unequally (with the third in its normal state), the number of combinations would be nine ; while the number of combinations would be thirteen if they are taken three at a time— all of them aggravated, both equally and unequally (thus making twenty-five in all with the aggravated Doshas). With an equal number of combinations in cases of the diminution of the Doshas (taken one, two or three at a time) we have fifty combinations. The number of combinations (taken one, two and three at a time) with the aggravated and diminished Doshas mixed together would be twelve only. — Thus making sixty-two in all. 9

The number of combinations, when mixed together, would be innumerable. It, therefore, behoves a physician to treat a patient with the different combinations of the (six different) Rasas after properly diagnosing the disease with a due regard to the aggravation, of the different Doshas and without going into any further details. In ameliorating a disease, the physician is the doer of that action the effect whereof is health and the instruments with which the action is performed are the Rasas while the Doshas are the causes. The opposite hereof is want of health. 10.

4t$ THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITX. [Chap. LX Y I.

The Uttara-Tantra, enriched with the sixty-six chapters wherein have been described and explained the order of the words and their meanings, and wherein have been explained very clearly the hidden meanings of the terms for making them clear to persons of weak intellect, has thus been duly explained to you in accordance with your question, if.

Persons reading, according to the rules laid down, this treatise together with the Uttara-Tantra coming from (the mouth of) Brahmi himself, are not abondoned by their wished for objects, that is to say, they are sure to obtain them. This word of Brahmd is perfectly true. 1 2,

Thus ends the sixty-sixth chapter of the Uttara-Tantra in the Sus'ruta* SamhiU which (deals with and) is called the different combinations of the different Doshas.

Here ends the Uttara-Tantra.

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