Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

From these causes, viz., the taking of unwholesome food, the (force or measure of the) injury, and the differences in respect of the kind of body, diseases become either mild or virulent, quicklyarising or slow in generation.14

Through these causes, the wind, bile, and phlegm, being excited in particular parts of the body, produce different diseases.

The faults becoming excited in particular places such as the food-fluids and others, produce particular diseases. We shall now, O Agniveca, declare which diseases arise from which places becom¬ ing the seats of the excited faults.*15

An absence of relish for food, disgust for food, tastelessness in the mouth, incapacity to discern taste, hiccup, a sensation of heavi¬ ness in all the limbs, drowsiness, general lassitude or langour of the foody, fever, a sensation of being surrounded by darkness on every side,16 paleness of complexion, obstruction of the ducts, impotence, langour, emaciation of the body, loss of the digestive fire, premature wrinkles and white hairs,17 — there are the diseases that spring from the excitement of the faults in the food-fluids.

Those that spring from the faults when they are excited in the blood are now enumerated. They are : —

Leprosy, Erysipelas, Eruptions (of diverse kinds) on the skin, Bilious hemorrhage, Leucorrhcea with discharges of blood,13 Inflamation (ending in sores gangrenous or otherwise) of the anal canal, the organ of generation, and the mouth, enlargement of the spleen, abdominal tumours, deep-seated abscesses, black spots on the face, jaundice, brown spots on the face, freckles on the face and other parts of the body, moles (on the face or the body),19 cutaneous and herpetic eruptions, Impetigo, whiteness of the skin or Vitiligo, Eczema, Urticaria Evanida, and circular eruptions emitting bloody discharges.

* The original is. expanded a little. — T.

CHA RAKA -SA MHITA.

p. 397

Listen now to the diseases that arise from the faults when excited in the skin.20

They are Adhimanga(a), Arvuda(£), Kila(c), Gala£aluka(«0, £undika(d?), Putimahga(/), Alaji(^), Ganda(^), Gandamala(* ), and Upajihvika(y ).21

The diseases that appertain to the adeps or fat are as follows : —

The eight censurable incidents (mentioned in Lesson XXI ante), as also all the preliminary or incepient stages of Diabetes.*28

When the faults are excited in the bones, the diseases that occur are as follows : —

Adhyasthi(/£), Adhi-danta(Z), Danta-bhedabw), Danta-£ula(;z), Asthibheda(tf), Asthi-9ula(/), Adhyasthi-fula'yl, Adhidanta-gulafr) Adhyasthi-bheda(j), and Adliidanta-bheda(^), loss of complexion, and diseased condition of the hair, bristles, nails, and beard.23, a. Fleshy excrescences on the eye. The word is also used to imply the cancer of the eye.

b. Tumours in general.

e. Chakrapani explains that by Kila is meant piles in this connection.

d. Probably, any inflammatory growth in the throat.

e. Cundika or Gala-^undika is enlarged tonsil.

/. Dead or decayed flesh.

g. Inflammation of the eye or edge of the cornea.

h. Bronchocele.

i. Enlargement of the lymphatic glands.

j. Ranula.

* The eight censurable incidents are i. Excessive tallness of stature ; 2. Excessive shortness of stature ; 3. Excessive hairiness of the skin ; 4. Total absence of hair on the skin ; 5. Excessive darkness of complexion ; 6. Excessive whiteness of com¬ plexion ; 7. Excessive corpulency or obesity; and 8. Excessive leanness or emacia¬ tion. — T.

k. A bone growing on a bone is called Adhyasthi.

l. A tooth growing on a tooth is so called.

m. Rottenness of tooth.

n. Tooth-ache.

o. Rottenness of bone.

p. Severe or aching pain on any of the bones.

q. Aching pain in a bone growing on another bone.

r. Aching pain in a tooth growing on another tooth.

s. Rottenness of a bone growing on a bone.

t. Rottenness of a tooth growing on a tooth.

Chakrapani points out that the first line up to 'julam’ gives ten different diseases. — T.

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CHA RAKA-SAMHITl.

Pains in the joints, delusions, swoons, a sight of darkness all around, and the appearance of the boils, called A rushes, with broad bases, on the joints of the body, — these are said to be the diseases that arise from the faults of the marrow.

From the faults of the vital seed arise incapacity for sexual congress even when there has been erection of the genital organ, the absence of erection, and the birth of offspring that are diseased, impotent, short-lived, and ugly, or incapacity to produce concep¬ tion, or when there is conception it is followed by abortion or impure discharges from the uterus.

The vital seed being diseased, it makes a man miserable along with his offspring and wives.24-7'6