<!-- Pramāṇa, a library of Indian primary sources · https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.9.12 -->

[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) › 9.12

# Ashtangasamgraha 9.12

Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 9.12

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [9.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.9.12)

teṣvāśu kuryātsaṃśuddhiṃ śamaṃ vā tadvirodhibhiḥ |  
  
dravyaistaireva vā pūrvaṃ śarīrasyābhisaṃskṛtim ||  
  
plavate plavamānasya ṣaṇmāsaṃ tasya jīvitam ||  
  
tenānilaviṇmūtrasaṅgo bhavatyādhmānaṃ ca |  
  
sā vātāṣṭhīlā |  
  
viguṇo vāyuḥ bastau kuṇḍalībhūtastīvraśūlastambhagauravānvito mūtramāvidhyālpaśo vā pravartayan bhramati sā vātakuṇḍalikā |  
  
mūtramativelaṃ vidhārya vimucyamānaṃ na pravartate vāhamānasya tu kṛcchrādalpaṃ pravartate tanmūtrātītam ||  
  
bījapūrakavṛkṣāmlakoladāḍimadīpyakaiḥ ||  
  
pāṇḍurdīno muhurmuhyan hāheti paridevate ||

> In these cases, one should quickly perform purification or pacification with substances contrary to them, / or beforehand prepare the body with those very substances.  
> If it floats for one swimming, his life is for six months.  
> Through this, there is retention of vāta, feces, and urine, and abdominal distension.  
> That is vātāṣṭhīlā.  
> Vitiated vāta, having coiled in the bladder, accompanied by intense colic, stiffness, and heaviness, wanders about, scattering urine or discharging it in small amounts; that is vātakuṇḍalikā.  
> When urine, having been suppressed for a long time, does not flow when being released, but when straining flows with difficulty and in small amounts, that is mūtrātīta.  
> With citron, vṛkṣāmla, kola, pomegranate, and dīpyaka.  
> Pale, dejected, constantly fainting, he laments, weeping 'alas, alas!'.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

- [Previous: 9.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.9.11)
- [Next: 9.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.9.13)
- [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.9)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.9.12) — English, machine translation

---
Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.9.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.9.12) · Pramāṇa
