Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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t ‘Indriyam' or the senses, as explained by Gangadhara, imply ‘jivana-liogâni,’ 4.e.t the indications of the functions of life. ‘Vijnanam,’ Chakrapani explains, implies the understanding ; Gangadhara thinks it means the Science of Life. ‘Chetana hetum’ is taken by Chakrapani as meaning either the soul or the cause of
CHA RA KA -SA MHITl.
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Physicians happen to be of two classes, 0 Agnive^a ! One class consists of those that follow (save) the Life-breaths by destroying diseases ; the other class consists of those that follow diseases and destroy life.
Unto the illustrious son of Atri who said so, Agnive^a said, — O illustrious one, how shall we distinguish them ?.
The illustrious One said, — Those that are well-born, of clear understanding, possessed of experience, skilful, of pure behaviour, possessed of mastery over their hands, with souls under thorough control, equipt with every necessary object, with every sense iiv order, capable of reading the dispositions of others, furnished with, knowledge of results (of processes, operations, drugs, &c.), are saidto be saviors of life and destroyers of diseases.*
Such men are freed from every doubt as regards the correct knowledge of the body, knowledge of what conduces to the growthof the body and of conditions both normal and abnormal.
They are also freed from doubts in respect of the origin, the premonitory indications, symptoms, pains, and diagnoses of diseases that are easily curable, or that are curable with difficulty, or that can only be suppressed, or that should not be taken up for treatment (because of their incurability).
They are, again, the expounders of the aphorisms of the Science of Life which are of three kinds (viz., those that relate to the life, i.e., the causes of disease and its cure. This seems to be correct. Chakrap£ni' takes 'Smayam’ as equivalent to ‘lingam’ or symptoms. ‘PrSnabhisara’ is one who follows the life-breaths, that is, one who saves, instead of destroying, life. The sense is that of a companion or friend of the life-breaths. — T.
* ‘Paryavadata’ is, literally, pure or clean. Gangadhara takes it as implying those whose intellects have become clear in consequence of a proper or attentive study of the medical and other scriptures.
'Jitahasta’ applies to surgical operations ; possessing mastery over the hand, i.e., having a handsthat is quick and steadied by practice.
‘Prakritjna’ implies one who is conversant with the dispositions of other people ; it may also mean one that is acquainted with what constitutes the normal state of the body.
‘Pratipatti’ implies the production of anticipated results. One conversant with ‘pratipatti’ is one who performs an operation, or adopts a particular process, or administers a particular drug, knowing the result fully. — T.
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CHA RAKA-SAMHITA.
causes of disease, those relating to the symptoms of disease, and those to the medicines that should be applied for its cure).
They are conversant with those aphorisms as set forth in brief or as explained in detail.
They are, further, acquainted with the entire group of medicines which are of three varieties {viz., those that are destructive of wind, those that are destructive of bile, and those that are destruc¬ tive of phlegm.*4
They are well conversant with the proper use (and nature) of the five and thirty kinds of fruits and roots ; four kinds of principal oils j five kinds of salts ; eight kinds of urine ; eight kinds of milk ; six varieties of trees yielding milk and barks ; the groups of drugs that are resorted to in the five operations beginning with purging the cerebrum ; the eight and twenty kinds of gruel ; the two and thirty varieties of powders and plasters ; the six centuries of pur¬ gatives ; the five centuries of Astringents ; the rules, occurring in the exposition of what should be done for keeping up health, respecting food and drink, place (of residence^, walking, bed, seats, measure, articles, collyrium, smoking, snuffs, rubbing (of oils on the body), cleansing the body (by baths, &c), suppression of urgings and allowing urgings to have free play, physical exercises, the soul, the senses, what is beyond the ken of the senses, and treatment. +5
* The Science of Life as expounded in the medical treatises consists of three principal divisions, viz., ‘Hetu’ ot causes of disease, ‘Linga’ or the symptoms of disease, and ‘Aushadha’ or medicine. ‘Sangraha and Vyakarana’ mean in brief and in expansion or detail. Medicines are of three kinds, viz., as curing wind, as curing bile, and as curing phlegm. — T.
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