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# Ashtangasamgraha 3.5

Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 3.5

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.3.5)

purāntikāgnivalmīkaramyotkṛṣṭacitidrume |  
  
na nārīpūjyagorkenduvāyvannāgnijalaṃ prati ||  
  
neti khaṇḍakāpyaḥ garbhasya paiṅgalyābādhabhayāt |  
  
astu paiṅgalyābādhastathāpyevaṃ kurvīta |  
  
nīrujaṃ balavarṇasatvasaṃhananasampadupetaṃ jñātīnāmagragaṇyamapatyaṃ janayatīti bhagavānātreyaḥ ||  
  
laṅghanaṃ bṛṃhaṇaṃ cādau śodhanaṃ śamanaṃ tathā ||  
  
tatra vamane bhūyo vāmayet |  
  
virecane snigdhasvinnaṃ punarvirecayet |  
  
utkliṣṭabhūridoṣaṃ vā tṛtīye 'hani |  
  
ubhayośca saṃśodhanayorlavaṇatailābhyaktaṃ piṇḍaprastarābhyāṃ svedayet ||  
  
raudrān rudro 'nujagrāha prahvān vṛttyabhilāṣiṇaḥ ||

> Near a town, fire, an anthill, an attractive or exalted \[tree\], or a funeral-pile tree; / nor facing a woman, a revered person, a cow, the sun, the moon, wind, food, fire, or water. // Khaṇḍakāpya says: "No, out of fear of causing tawny-eyed disfigurement to the embryo." / "Let there be the disfigurement of tawny eyes; even so, one should do this. / It produces an offspring free from disease, endowed with strength, complexion, mental vigor, and compactness of body, and foremost among relatives," says the venerable Ātreya. // Fasting, nourishing, and likewise purification and pacification at first. // There, in emesis, one should cause him to vomit again. / In purgation, having oleated and sweated him, one should purge him again, / or on the third day when the doṣas are excited and abundant. / And in both purifications, having anointed him with salted oil, one should sweat him with bolus and bed sudations. // Rudra favored the fierce \[beings\] who were humble and desirous of a livelihood:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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