[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) › 19.1 # Ashtangasamgraha 19.1 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 19.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [19.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.19.1) athāto doṣādivijñānīyamadhyāyaṃ vyākhyāsyāmaḥ | iti ha smāhurātreyādayo maharṣayaḥ | doṣadhātumalamūlo hi dehaḥ | tasmātteṣāṃ lakṣaṇamupadekṣyāmaḥ | tamucchvāsaniśvāsotsāhapraspandanendriyapāṭavavegapravartanādibhirvāyuranugṛhṇāti | paktyūṣmābhilāṣakṣutpipāsāprabhāprasādadarśanamedhāśauryamārdavādibhiḥ pittam | sthairyasnehasandhibandhavṛṣatākṣamādhīdhṛtibalālaulyādibhiḥ śleṣmā || iti ha smāhurātreyādayo maharṣayaḥ || iti ha smāhurātreyādayomaharṣayaḥ || > Now we shall explain the chapter on the knowledge of the doṣas and so forth. > Thus spoke the great sages, Ātreya and others: > For the body has the doṣas, bodily tissues, and waste products as its root. > Therefore, we shall teach their characteristics. > Vāyu supports it by expiration, inspiration, enthusiasm, bodily movements, sharpness of the senses, initiation of urges, and the like. > Pitta \[supports it\] by digestion, body heat, desire, hunger, thirst, luster, clarity, vision, intellect, valor, softness, and the like. > Śleṣman \[supports it\] by firmness, unctuousness, stability of joints, virility, forbearance, wisdom, fortitude, strength, absence of greed, and the like. > Thus spoke the great sages, Ātreya and others. > Thus spoke the great sages, Ātreya and others. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 18.35\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.18.35_1) - [Next: 19.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.19.2) - [Up: 19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.19) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.19.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.19.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.19.1) · Pramāṇa