Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

In such times, the practice of truthfulness, of compassion to all creatures, and of gifts, offerings made unto the deities, worship of the deities, accomplishment of acts of piety, and the adoption of tranquillity, are regarded as means of self-preservation.18

The practice of all such acts as may be beneficial for cities and towns and villages (thus threatened), as also of such rites and acts as are of an auspicious character, observance of Brahmacharyya , worship of those that are Brahmachdrins, scriptural recitals and conversations, narrations of the acts of great Rishis with souls under complete control, and association with pious men wedded to the quality of satwa and reverenced by the aged :13_2°

These have been spoken of as medicine, these have been regarded as means for preserving life, for those whose deaths are not inevitable at such awful times.“t

Having heard from the illustrious son of Atri these causes of the destruction of cities and towns and villages, Agniveya once more

* What the Rishi says here is this : death takes place as the result of one’s acts of both this and previous lives. The very disease that is to kill is determined by such acts. When all the men inhabiting a particular area where the four have been vitiated are such that, in consequence of a commonness of acts in both their present and past lives, they have become liable to a common form of death at the same time, medical treatment cannot afford them any relief. If, however, no such commonness of fate is in store for them, or if all of them have not a common store of acts, then they may attain relief through proper medical treatment. The five operations here adverted to are the adminis¬ tration of emetics, of purgatives, of enemata of two kinds, i. e., oily and dry, and of errhines or cerebral purgatives.- — T.

j- ‘Hitam janapadanam’ means such acts as are beneficial to cities and towns, &c., i. e., all such acts as contribute to lessen their filth and other causes of disease. ‘ Brahmacharyya ’ includes such acts as abstention from all kinds of intemperance. The first word in the 20th verse is ‘ samkatha.’ The Bengal texts print ' sankaya ’ which is unmeaning. — T.

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CHARAKA-SAMHITA

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.

PUBLISHED BY

A YIN ASH CHANDRA KAVIRATNA,

Editor of Charaka-Samhita and of Susruta-Samhita (in original) with Commentaries; Bengali and Hindi Translator of CharakaSamhita and of Susruta-Samhita ; Editor of ChikitsaSammIlanI (Medical Journal in Bengali) ; Prac¬ titioner of the Hindu System of Medicine, &c., &c., &c. ,

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- UttaRpara :

25th August, i8g6.

My dear Sir. — Thanks for the 15th part of the translation of Charaka Samhita, which! I have just received. This part is exceedingly valuable by reason of its dealing with a subject which is of vital importance to the public. It is to be regretted that the work is not more widely patronised. I have no doubt that everybody who reads it is much benefited by it.

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My dear Sir, — I have to thank you for Part XV of your very useful translation of Charaka.

I quite agree with you that Charaka' s work can be read by laymen with great interest. It is by no means a book which is to be read only by professional medical

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