[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Early and ascribed compendia](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita) › [Ashtangasamgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha) › 1.25 # Ashtangasamgraha 1.25 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 1.25 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.1.25) śukrārtavasthairjanmādau viṣeṇeva viṣakrimeḥ | taiśca tisraḥ prakṛtayo hīnamadhyottamāḥ pṛthak || puṣpadarśanāt saptarātram | athāṣṭamyāṃ daśamyāṃ dvādaśyāṃ vā rātrau putrakāmaḥ saṃvaset | paccamyāṃ saptamyāṃ navamyāṃ vā duhitṛkāmaḥ | tāsūttarottaramāyurārogyaiśvaryasaubhāgyabalavarṇendriyasampadapatyasya bhavati | ataḥ paraṃ tūttarottaramevāyurādīnāṃ hrāsaḥ || hastena saptame śāntiścitrāyāmaṣṭame 'thavā || dvidhidhopakramajñānamavekṣeta ca laṅghane || tadvipakvaṃ vā takraṃ samadhusaindhavam | tadeva vā madhyaṃ saguḍapalalaṃ bhakṣayet || aparisrute cātistanyapūrṇastanapānenotsnehanāt kāsaśvāsajvaracchardiṣāṃ sambhavaḥ || > By them residing in the semen and menstrual fluid at the beginning of conception, as with poison in a poisonous insect, > three separate constitutional types arise: inferior, middling, and superior. > \[It is\] for seven nights after the appearance of the menstrual flower. > Then, one desiring a son should unite on the eighth, tenth, or twelfth night; > one desiring a daughter, on the fifth, seventh, or ninth. > Among these \[nights\], later and later there is an increase in the child's lifespan, health, sovereignty, good fortune, strength, complexion, and faculties; > thereafter, however, there is only a progressive decrease of lifespan and the rest. > With Hasta, relief occurs on the seventh, or in Citrā on the eighth. > And in fasting, one should consider knowledge of the twofold therapeutic approach. > Or buttermilk cooked with that, together with honey and rock salt; > or one should eat that flesh together with jaggery and roasted meat. > And from drinking from a breast that is not squeezed out and excessively filled with milk, cough, dyspnea, fever, and vomiting arise due to over-unctuousness. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.1.24) - [Next: 1.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.1.26) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.1.25) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.1.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.1.25) · Pramāṇa