[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) › 9.18 # Ashtangasamgraha 9.18 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 9.18 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [9.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.9.18) tritayaṃ catadupastambhanamāhāraḥ svapno 'brahmacaryaṃ ca | ebhiryuktiyuktairupastabdhamupastambhaiḥ śarīraṃ balavarṇopacayocitamanuvarttate yāvadāyuḥsaṃskāraḥ | tatra āhāra ukto vakṣyate ca || niṣṭhyūtaṃ bahurvarṇaṃ vā yasya māsātsa naśyati || kucoruśroṇiśālinyo yauvanoṣṇāṅgayaṣṭayaḥ | harṣeṇāliṅgane yuktāḥ priyāḥ saṃvāhaneṣu ca || harṣaṇāśvāsanotrāsabhayatāḍanatarjanam || > And the secondary support is threefold: food, sleep, and non-celibacy. > Supported by these secondary supports applied properly, the body, endowed with strength, complexion, and nourishment, persists as long as the lifespan's momentum remains. > Among these, food has been spoken of and will be spoken of further. > Or one whose spit is multicolored perishes after a month. > Women endowed with breasts, thighs, and hips, whose slender limbs are warm with youth, / engaging with joy in embracing and in soothing massage. > Cheering, comforting, alarming, frightening, striking, and threatening. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.9.17) - [Next: 9.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.9.19) - [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.9.18) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.9.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.9.18) · Pramāṇa