[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) › 4.39 # Ashtangasamgraha 4.39 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 4.39 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.4.39) bhinnendranīlanīlābhravṛndamandāvilaṃ nabhaḥ | dīrghikānavavāryaughamagnasopānapaṅktayaḥ || yaścābhugna evaikena pādena yoniṃ dvitīyena pāyum | tau mūḍhau hastenāhartumaśakyāviti śastramavacārayet || śālayaḥ syustanukaphe ṣaṣṭikāśca rasādibhiḥ | śarkarāmbho 'nupānārthaṃ drākṣekṣusvarasaḥ payaḥ || sadyaskairmṛditairbastirjīvādāne praśasyate || baliḥ suśastairdeyaḥ syād bhavanasya caturdiśam || > The sky is slightly turbid with masses of clouds blue like fractured sapphires, / and the flights of steps of long pleasure-ponds are submerged in floods of new water. > > And \[a fetus\] which, unbent, \[comes out\] with one foot into the vagina and the second into the anus— > these two obstructed \[presentations\] are impossible to extract with the hand, and so one should apply the knife. > > There should be rice and ṣaṣṭika grains when kapha is thin, with meat juice and the like; / sugar-water as a drink afterward, grape juice, sugarcane juice, or milk. > > An enema \[prepared\] with freshly crushed \[substances\] is praised in cases of the intake of blood. > > An offering should be made with auspicious things in all four directions of the dwelling. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.4.38) - [Next: 4.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.4.40) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.4.39) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.4.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.4.39) · Pramāṇa