Ashtangasamgraha 3

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3.1

Now we shall expound the chapter named 'Daily Regimen'.

Thus spoke the great sages Ātreya and others.

Thus spoke the great sages Ātreya and others.

Thus spoke the great sages Ātreya and others.

Thus spoke the great sages Ātreya and others.

Thus spoke the great sages Ātreya and others.

Thus spoke the great sages Ātreya and others.

3.2

One should rise in the brāhma muhūrta, checking whether [the previous meal] is digested or undigested; / to protect life, a healthy person, having felt an urge, should evacuate it.

And during that [period], for the first twelve nights, she should drink ghee prepared from milk, boiled with śāliparṇī and palāśa, boiled with gold and silver, with cold water as an after-drink.

She should take food evening and morning that is sweet, cold, mostly liquid, and suitable [to her constitution];

and she should not resort to oil-massage and body-cleansing rubs;

and she should avoid the aforesaid factors that aggravate doṣas, especially up to the fifth month.

And with foods of kodo millet and wild grain, heavily consumed when mixed therewith.

One should manage bleeding disorder that is free from complications during a comfortable season.

In that situation, there is non-attainment of the desired object and the excitation of doṣas;

having quickly oleated him again, one should cause him to vomit with appropriate [drugs], considering the dosage, time, and the like;

and remembering the aforementioned violation, one should avoid factors causing calamity.

Five grahas have human form, and seven grahas have female form.

3.3

Facing north [he should pass] urine and feces, [and] facing south at night, / restraining speech, pure, with body covered and head wrapped.

In the third [month], that very ghee with honey;

in the fourth, mixed with butter in the quantity of an akṣa;

in the fifth, ghee prepared from milk;

in the sixth, that very ghee prepared with sweet herbs;

and in the seventh.

In that [month], however, women say that a burning sensation occurs in the mother due to the growth of hair in the fetus.

'Not so,' says the venerable Ātreya;

rather, due to the upward pressure of the fetus, the doṣas reach the heart and produce a burning sensation; then itching arises, and from the itching, striae gravidarum.

Having attained mutual similarity in appearance, they spread throughout the body.

That which having subsided again and again flares up and moves from channel to channel.

There, the previously mentioned complications and treatment [apply];

even if it rises above that, one should not administer a third medicine, excluding agreeable linctuses and pills.

Śakuni, Pūtanā, Śītapūtanā, Dṛṣṭipūtanā, / Mukhaṃmaṇḍitikā, likewise Revatī, [and] Śuṣkarevatī.

3.4

One should void what is moving, but not force it out with effort; / nor in an impure road, earth, ash, or a cowshed filled with dung. // And one should rub the breasts and abdomen with pastes of sandalwood and lotus stalks, / or with powders of siris, dhātukī, mustard, and madhuka, / or with pastes of kutaja, arjaka seeds, mustā, and turmeric, / or with pastes of neem, kola, surasā, and mañjiṣṭhā, / or with triphalā mixed with the blood of a hare, deer, or spotted deer. / And inunction should be done with oil prepared with a paste of karavīra and karañja leaves. / Sprinkling, however, is done with water boiled with mālatī and madhuka. / She should avoid scratching. / She should make a habit of bathing and unguents to prevent crackling and disfigurement of the skin. / And she should eat sweet food in small amounts, with little unctuous substance and salt, followed by a little water as an after-drink. // And because of following the odor and color [of blood], it is designated as raktapitta. // Having ascertained the etiology, the course, the bodily wastes, the secondary factors, and the strength [of the disease and patient]— // There, the provoked doṣas, when not eliminated at the proper time, cause confusion. / After his belly has been oleated, one should cause him to drink no small amount and not mild medicine. // Because Skanda was the protector of children, Skanda became their leader.

3.5

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:

3.6

And not without covering the ground, though in fear or inability [one may do so] at will. / When urged by bodily impulses, one should not engage in other actions, nor without conquering a curable disease. // To clear old feces and to direct vāta downward, one should give an oily enema with oil prepared with madhuka and other sweet herbs. / For when the wind is moving downward, she delivers easily and without complications. // Vomiting, disgust for what has been vomited, cough, dyspnea, dizziness, and exhaustion. // The upward tract is treated by purgation, but the downward by emesis; / the other by pacifying and nourishing [measures], and considering those fit for fasting or nourishing. // Having given that patient who has had inadequate evacuation an evacuation enema with sharp drugs mixed with urine, fed him with the soup of wild animal meat, given an oily enema with oil prepared with fruit, devadāru, and pippalī, and lubricated him with vāta-pacifying unctuous substances, one should purge him again with sharp drugs. // "In those houses where [we] are honored, in which the path of proper conduct is abandoned,

3.7

Having wiped the bodily channel of waste with a clean lump of clay free from stones, / one should apply pure water that has been drawn up and lumps of earth. // Thus, because her passages are opened, the medicine enters properly. // Red, turmeric-like, or green coloration in the eyes and other parts, // and fasting for one who drinks the water of the six ingredients without dried ginger. // One should quickly scrape that out. / And having rekindled his digestive fire through fasting, and oleated him again, one should purify him with sharp and hot drugs. // take away the health, support, and ease of children among them!"

3.8

Purification removes smeared dirt and odor without splashing drops, / having touched the bodily tissues, bodily wastes, tears, muscle-fat, and shed hairs or nails. // Seeing those colors in a dream occurs in this condition or will occur. // In the upward form, a nourishing drink should be applied; a thin gruel beforehand in the downward form. // There, due to the retention of waste, the abdomen swells, internal colic arises, the sides are inflated like a leather bag, pain in the head and back, dyspnea, cough, and pricking pain in the anus and urinary bladder occur. / One should treat him with inunction, sudation, suppositories, and carminative powders and enema procedures that remove upward movement of vāta and flatulence. // Those who are angry, frightened, depressed, or roaming alone in empty places;

3.9

After bathing, when about to eat, after eating, after sleeping, after sneezing, at the worship of the gods, / and after stepping onto the road, one should sip water while seated, facing north / or facing east, staying in a secluded place, not with knees outward, not looking around, / silent, wearing an upper garment, with clean [water] reaching the root of the thumb. // By this regimen, beginning from the first month, at the time of delivery the pregnant woman's uterus, abdomen, pelvis, flanks, and back become soft; / vāyu is directed downward; / urine and feces become normal, and the placenta finds its path; / and strong, she easily delivers an agreeable, healthy, long-lived, and happy son at the proper time. // And aggravated, it issues forth through all the hair follicles. // Otherwise, one should restrain it quickly; it acts rapidly like fire. // There, cutting pain with a burning sensation occurs in the navel, bladder, rectum, and penis, along with obstruction of wind and constipation. // children who have filthy wet-nurses, who weep at twilight, and are unclean:

3.10

[Water] that is not drawn up, not curved, not from above, not boiled by fire, not putrid, / not with froth, bubbles, or alkaline salts, and not offered with a single hand. // For one whose śleṣman is purified, astringents and sweet substances are beneficial. // One should prepare a linctus according to rule; then one should lick a palmful of it. // When the associated factor has become free from āma, light, alkaline, and sour [substances are used]. // Accompanied by vāta, one should administer in food and drink the sour part of curd whey combined with pomegranate rind, and drink ghee mixed with pomegranate juice, or a paste of sesame and devadāru with hot water. // Entering with a pure body the children, like Gandharvas entering women!

3.11

Pitta has many medicines, but purgation is indeed the best medicine. // One should administer according to rule formulations dominated by indravāruṇī, sugarcane juice, milk, grapes, honey, and white sugar for the purpose of purgation, / or with milk boiled with latex-bearing trees. // And having sprinkled him with cold water and fed him with milk, one should administer an oily enema with ghee scum or oil of yaṣṭīmadhuka. / And for an emaciated person, the entire regimen that is sweet and nourishing is recommended. // Terrifying those who are asleep, or sometimes even those who are awake, / mostly on conjunction days the seizing spirits seize them, striking at weak points,

3.12

nor with only one hand wet, nor with unclean hands and feet, nor making sounds. / [A tooth-stick] born of banyan, asana, arka, khadira, karañja, or karavīra.
And even in the case of a slight retention of feces and urine, one should administer fruit suppositories.
A sweet bolus destroys sannipāta, upward-flowing bleeding disorder, and fever.
And [the fluid] oozes out little by little, mixed with pitta and kapha, / and it causes sluggish digestion, heaviness, edema, itching, pallor, exhaustion of the limbs, abdominal swelling, and colic.

3.13

[Or one] derived from sarja, arimeda, apāmārga, mālatī, or kakubha, / or another such root that is astringent, bitter, or pungent.
Immediately after that, labor pains manifest and the flow of amniotic fluid begins.
And emesis is not the best treatment for a mild disturbance of pitta.
Emesis combined with fruits, a refreshing drink with sugar and honey.
When the discharge has subsided, after oleating again, one should purify [the patient] with sharp [drugs]; / and when purified, one should administer appetizers, such as fermented infusions, fermented broths, and the like.
Discharge of foam, upward gaze, biting the lips and teeth, and wakefulness;

3.14

From a known tree, with its tip crushed, straight, knotless, born on good ground, / equal in thickness to the tip of the little finger, with a good brush, twelve finger-breadths long.
Then women who are well-dressed, trustworthy, pleasing to look at, mature in years, skilled in childbirth, bold, and with their nails trimmed, comforting the parturient woman with pleasant words, should attend to her as she lies supine on a soft floor-bed covered with a red bull-hide, with her thighs and back flexed.
And only astringent and sweet [remedies] are beneficial for it.
Or madanaphala, indrayava, gāṅgeyī, and yaṣṭīmadhuka along with honey.
Then tenesmus arises in him; / in it, straining violently, he passes kapha accompanied by burning and colic, slimy, white, black, or red; / one should treat him with the regimen for dysentery.
Suddenly scratching the limbs of his wet-nurse all around with his nails;

3.15

And in the morning, having eaten and observing silence, one should chew the tooth-stick, / and one should rub [the teeth] with the three groups of three smeared with honey.
Likewise, [one should administer] fumes from any one of birch-bark, śiṃśapā, or resin of sarja, and occasionally, having anointed her flanks, back, waist, and thigh regions with lukewarm oil, one should massage them according to her comfort.
Because counter-acting it is impossible, and because of the absence of medicine.
Refreshing drinks, gruels, and the like should be employed appropriately, protecting strength.
Then, from affliction of the principal vital spot, the patient is intensely tormented by pains; / experiencing confusion, hiccup, cough, salivation, and flank pain, trembling, having lost consciousness, he grinds his teeth, rolls his eyes upward, and bites his tongue; / they call that the attack on the heart.
Half of his body is paralyzed, his limbs are stiff, he is sweaty, and his neck is bent;

3.16

Then with it, without harming the teeth and gums, / one should slowly scrape the teeth, and according to comfort scrape the tongue with a tongue-scraper.
Its symptom: / leaving the heart, it enters the abdomen; / it grips the bladder neck; / the labor pains hurry her; / if it does not turn in this manner, then she should be made to yawn repeatedly and walk about, and one should carry out the procedure mentioned immediately before.
And purification in the reverse direction is the physician's treatment in bleeding disorder.
With water prepared from madhūka, dates, raisins, parūṣaka, and sugar,
emesis using rice water mixed with yaṣṭīmadhuka; / or with pungents for someone dominated by kapha; / then one should digest the remaining doṣa with digestive drugs, and administer enemas according to the increase of the doṣas.
With a distorted face, vomiting saliva, he looks intensely upward;

3.17

Thus, impurities, bad taste, and foul smells of the mouth arising from the tongue, mouth, and teeth do not occur; / and taste perception, clarity, and lightness arise.
That, however, is not correct. / For avoidance of violent physical exertion is constantly instructed for a pregnant woman, / and especially at the time of delivery, when all bodily tissues and doṣas are agitated, because a woman is delicate, the vāta stirred up by physical exertion with a pestle, finding an opening, would destroy her vital breaths.
Indeed, when the doṣas are combined, an all-pacifying palliative is beneficial.
Or [gruel] soured with pomegranate and āmalaka for one with weak digestive fire and a craving for sour taste.
By that, stiffness of all the limbs occurs. / Particularly, there would be pain in his flanks, back, pelvis, nape of the neck, and vital points, faintness, stupor-like rigidity, piercing pain, tearing pain, cramps, and loss of consciousness. / Having anointed him and fomented him with grains, one should give an oily enema with oil cooked with yaṣṭīmadhuka; / and food and drink should pacify vāta.
With one eye, cheek, and eyebrow twitching, both eyes bloodshot, / afflicted by Skanda, through that deformity or death will surely occur;

3.18

One suffering from indigestion, vomiting, dyspnea, cough, or fever should not use it; / nor one suffering from thirst, stomatitis, or diseases of the heart, eyes, head, or ears.
And one should repeatedly inspect the vaginal passage, / and say: 'Auspicious woman, bear down very gently; the color of your face is serene; you will give birth to a son.'
And complications according to the knowledge of morbidity, and in those especially.
Uśīra, śābara-lodhra, ginger, and red sandalwood.
Having anointed him with ghee washed a hundred times, one should arrest it quickly with astringent, sweet, and cooling pastes, showers, tub baths, food, and drinks containing sugar and honey.
Having bent down, while yawning, discharge of stool and urine;

3.19

Never those born of śleṣmātaka, ariṣṭa, bibhītaka, dhava, or dhanvana, / nor bilva, vañcula, nirguṇḍī, śigru, tilvaka, or tinduka.
Gruels prepared with half-portions, which are to be used in quarter-measures, will be described.
And one should give him slimy enemas, and an oily enema of milk-ghee cooked with the sweet group or ghee scum; / and one should carry out the regimen for bleeding disorder.
Biting of the breast and one's own tongue, agitation, fever, wakefulness, / and the smell of pus and blood are the characteristics of Skandāpasmāra;

3.20

Kovidāra, śamī, pīlu, pippalī, iṅguda, guggulu, / pāribhadraka, amlīkā, mocakī, śālmalī, and śaṇa.
May it always protect you who are with child, or bring about the extraction of the fetus.
Neglected, all [types of dysentery] lead to depletion, becoming progressively stronger.
Mung beans combined with śāliparṇī, or lentils with pṛśniparṇī.
Or one should administer in his meal a gruel cooked with aerial shoots of milky trees with honey, or milk, or milk cooked with astringent substances.
Thirst, clenching the fists, diarrhea, weakness of voice, and discoloration.

3.21

Sweet, sour, salty, dry, hollow, foul-smelling, [or] slimy [wood],
[wood from] palāśa, an [ordinary] seat, tooth-cleansing stick, [and leather] sandals one should avoid.
"[May she bear] a son possessing the radiance of Kārttikeya, protected by Kārttikeya and the rest!"
Feeling as though the throat is filled with bristles, and unease of the heart;
a gruel prepared in its decoction is beneficial, and likewise meat-gruels and meat-broths.
In obstruction of speech, lockjaw, and distress caused by vāta, one should drink a gruel made with little rice and cooked with ghee and meat-broth; / and one should apply oleation and sudation.
Biting of the lips, contraction and stiffness of the shoulders, and an odor resembling that of a goat;

3.22

One should first scrub the lower teeth; in the morning one should wash the eyes / with mouth full of water, using cool water in summer and autumn.
"Here, O fair lady, may the nectar, the moon, and fire, / and the steed Uccaiḥśravas dwell in your abode!"
By dry, cold, heavy, unctuous, moistening, and stale meals;
Grains with bristles and pods, vegetables, and meat are recommended;
and before him, one should feed sour fruits.
Fainting and swelling of one eye are the symptoms of seizure by Naigameṣa.

3.23

Having bowed to the gods and the elders, while listening to the auspicious hundred and eight blessings, / he should immediately look at ghee placed in a golden vessel.
"May that Fire, Wind, the Sun, and Indra, together with the salt-bearing oceans, grant peace!"
and by other such factors that deplete the bodily tissues and cause obstruction.
The previously mentioned drinking water, or [water] boiled with the Pañcamūla [should be given].
When the eyes are rolled back, one should massage [the body] with ghee and press [the limbs]; while he is unconscious, one should cause him to hear the sounds of Sāmaveda chants and flute songs.
Opisthotonos, biting the tongue, moaning inside the throat, / running about, smelling like feces, and barking like a dog occur in [the seizure of] Śunī.

3.24

Sauvīra collyrium is constantly beneficial for the eyes; therefore, one should resort to it; / by it the eyes become charming and capable of seeing subtle things.
For bearing down at the wrong time, just like forcing the urges of feces, urine, etc., causes harm and is injurious to the fetus, as it produces dyspnea, cough, emaciation, hunchback, and the like; / so too, failure to bear down during pain, like suppressing those very urges, causes injury; therefore, act as instructed.
Stationed upward in the seat of the nutrient fluid, it causes distress in the chest.
One should formulate collyriums and the like starting with padmaka, and [drugs] starting with sārivā;
or bark of somavalka, kaṭphala, utpala, samaṅgā, and lotus stamens; / or honey, sugar, yaṣṭīmadhu, and bark of udumbara; / and one should perform the treatment for bleeding diarrhea.
Cough, diarrhea, vomiting, yawning, thirst, and a smell like a corpse;

3.25

distinct in their three colors, clean, and with very sleek, dense eyelashes. / The eye is made of fire; hence, it has danger especially from śleṣman.
"Firmly upon the emergence of the fetus, and more firmly when it reaches the vaginal opening, until delivery." / While she is bearing down, the women should make the sound: "Delivered, delivered of a blessed, blessed son!" / Thus, through joy, her vital breaths are nourished.
[Moving through] the channels located in the throat and head, as if tossing the limbs;
When kapha accompanies [it], vegetable soup made of pulses [is beneficial]; when vāta accompanies [it], meat broth [is beneficial].
And as stated earlier, one should cure speech obstruction and the like.
Clenching of fists and discharge from the eyes would occur in an infant during seizure by Pitṛgraha.

3.26

After seven nights from this, one should apply rasāñjana to promote drainage; / thereafter, aṇutaila for nasal medication, and then holding mouthfuls of fluid.
or with piṇḍītaka. / And one should tie the root of hiraṇyapuṣpī to the hands and feet, or keep suvarcalā or viśalyā [on the body].
Because [the mouth] is wide open, a sound resembling broken bell-metal issues from the mouth.
[Preparations] made from makuṣṭha and dhanvayāsa are considered superior in bleeding disorder.
In that vessel washed and cleaned with lukewarm water, [if the blood does not stain, it is] living blood; / but if it is discolored, one should know it to be a bleeding disorder. / Or one should give food mixed with it to a dog or a crow; / if it is eaten, one should say it is living blood; if uneaten, [it is affected by] pitta.
Boils with burning sensation, pain, and suppuration would occur again and again in the joints.

3.27

Having firm, elevated, and clear skin of the shoulders, neck, face, and chest; / possessing sweet-smelling breath, a smooth voice, and clear sense organs.
prepared in a decoction of udumbara, when vāta is predominant.
Or one should quickly administer the blood of the deer, etc., with honey according to the procedure stated for excessive blood flow; / for that immediately restores the living spirit.
Or milk boiled with śyāmā, kāśmarya, madhuka, dūrvā, and uśīra, mixed with ghee scum and collyrium, when cold, should be poured into the rectum as an enema.
Fear, smelling like a bird, and fever occur in seizure by Śakunigraha.

3.28

Free from wrinkles, graying hair, and dark spots on the face would become those habituated to nasal medication; / cracking and roughness of the lips, dryness of the mouth, and diseases of the teeth
Or grasping the buttocks, one should press [the woman] firmly; / or with a braid or a finger wrapped with hair, one should tickle the throat and palate.
from which the unevenness of pain and sound of coughs arises.
For those [coughing] from bisotpalas and mṛṇālas, [meat of] quail and krakara partridge is beneficial.
Hiccup, abdominal distension, diarrhea, thirst, suppression of urine, / slackness and horripilation of the body hair, and a foul smell like a crow;

3.29

nor would voice impairment occur, from holding unctuous mouthfuls of liquid; / gargling with water [decocted with] khadira, trees with milky sap, and arimeda.
or with bhūrja and guggulu. / Or having lubricated the vagina with ghee prepared with the roots of śāli rice, one should fumigate it with kaṭukālābu, jālinī, nimba, and sloughed snake skin; / or, unlubricated, one should smear it with [these drugs] mixed with mustard oil or pasted and anointed with oil; / or with a paste of jaggery and dry ginger; / or one should consume that very [paste]; / or one should smear the hands and abdomen with a paste of the roots of lāṅgalī; / or one should pour the latex of mahāvṛkṣa upon the crown of the head.
Pain in the heart, flanks, chest, and head, along with confusion, agitation, and loss of voice.
Whatever is the etiology of bleeding disorder, that too one should avoid.
That cutting pain which occurs in purgation is the scraping of the throat in emesis; / that downward discharge is the spitting of kapha; that downward straining is the dry belch. / And here it is said:
Thirst, rumbling in the bowels, diarrhea, a foul smell like fat, / and coldness of one flank and heat of the other.

3.30

It conquers anorexia, bad taste in the mouth, dirt, foul smell, and excessive salivation. / Lightness of the mouth is produced by gargles of comfortably warm water.

Or the paste of long pepper, cardamom, jujube, vid-salt, wild pepper, leadwort, and small fennel.

Having cut off the right ear of a living donkey or bull and thrown it into any one of the bath-infusions such as bilva, horse gram, or reed-grass soup, having let it remain there for a muhūrta and then taken it out, one should make [the patient] drink that infusion.

He who has goosebumps, having expelled dried kapha with difficulty, will attain diminution [of it].

Drink pacifies pitta and blood, or the juice from vāṭarūṣaka.

An improperly prepared or spoiled medicine will surely bring complications.

Looseness of stool, discoloration, foul odor, and emaciation of the limbs.

3.31

Then one should make use of practical smoke and perfumes, garlands, and so forth. / From smoke, diseases of vāta and kapha arising above the clavicle will not occur.

Or decoction of arka and alarka mixed with surā liquor for the woman who has just given birth.

Or a paste of saussurea and gloriosa roots with any one among liquor or urine.

Or powder of kutaja and other [drugs] with liquor.

And one should insert a tampered swab soaked in oil prepared with dill, saussurea, emetic nut, and asafoetida.

And then one should administer an unctuous enema to her at the proper time for an unctuous enema.

Vomiting of pitta and blood, thirst, loss of voice, smoky feeling, and intoxication.

Vāśā instantly conquers blood, for it is the supreme medicine for it.

One should make him drink the medicine again; for thus it destroys both of them.

Hiccup, agitation, aversion to the breast, discoloration, sharpness of voice, / trembling, smelling of fish, or smelling sour.

3.32

Having excited [the morbid matter] with collyrium, one should overcome it by nasal drops; having stirred it up with nasal medication, by gargles; / having excited it with gargles, by smoke: in this order one should conquer vāta and kapha.

Or with scum of surā liquor mixed with white mustard, saussurea, gloriosa, and latex of the great tree.

Or having steamed the stalk-ends of the silk-cotton tree and pounded them, one should mash them in a decoction of the five roots. / And with that strained, oily, and combined with madana fruit and the like,

From kapha, the chest has little pain, and the head and heart are numb and heavy.

Or lotus-filaments and red lotus along with honey with that very [liquid].

One should have him who has vomited, been purified with gargles, and fasted, drink it.

State of the abdomen covered with blackish veins, fever, / anorexia, languor of the limbs, and an odor resembling cow's urine.

3.33

Perfumes, garlands, and the like are aphrodisiac, dispelling inauspiciousness, and beautifying. / One should not wear old, dirty, or predominantly red clothing.

Or one should administer an unctuous enema with mustard oil prepared with the paste of horseradish tree, holy basil, black pepper, cumin, and leadwort, together with milk and cow's urine.

Or having filled the vagina with flax or silk-cotton slime together with ghee, one should shake it.

Or with an oiled hand whose nails are cut, one should extract [the placenta] following the umbilical cord.

Horripilation, and the discharge of thick, unctuous, white phlegm.

Or one should lick the juice of cow dung or horse dung with honey and ghee.

By that, flatulence, vomiting, thirst, and constipation are quickly pacified.

Cough, hiccup, rolling of the eyes, crookedness of the face, and redness.

3.34

A garland should not be drooping, nor external, nor red, except that from water-born [flowers]; / and clothing, flowers, and shoes worn by another should not at all [be used].

Or the varaṇādi group with the five spices and an admixture of cardamom.

Vāta followed by pitta is strong in an internal chest-wound.

Arising from priyaṅgu, lodhra, catechu, silk-cotton, and mountain ebony.

Accompanied by eructation, or accompanied by body-ache; one should administer sudation there.

In the case of śuṣkarevatī, wasting of all the limbs gradually occurs.

3.35

Desiring appetite, clarity, and fragrance, one should hold in the mouth [these items] / along with nutmeg, cloves, camphor, cubeb, and aromatic seeds.

Or salt powder with the decoction of kutaja and the like.

Or kutaja and the like with intoxicating liquor.

Or a paste of black pepper and deodar with a decoction of the two kinds of aṃśumatī.

Or a paste of clerodendrum, dry ginger, and deodar with warm water.

Or one should eat old jaggery mixed with the powders of the three pungents, the three aromatics, and coriander.

Yellow, dusky, dry, knotted, putrid, and abundant.

And arising from flame-of-the-forest, jasmine, horseradish tree, butter tree, and asana.

In case of indigestion without evacuation, however, the physician should check it with very cold [measures].

Multi-colored stools, knots and prominent veins on the belly, / crying, an odor like a vulture, and long-standing duration.

3.36

Tender shoot of betel vines, pleasing to the heart, accompanied by areca nut.

For those suffering from bleeding disorder, chest-wounds, emaciation, roughness, and irritated eyes.

Then, having lubricated the vagina with blood of any kind, a skilled woman should reposition it in its proper place.

And when it has been repositioned, she should foment and fill it repeatedly with oil cooked with the paste of aśoka, katuki, sacred grass, vetiver, priyaṅgu, and deodar, and should say: "Go, auspicious one, to your proper place."

By one who has colic as if being pricked with sharp needles.

And buffalo ghee cooked with these flowers along with honey.

When phlegm has diminished, in the evening or at night it manifests.

Depression in the center of the tongue and a dusky palate: one should abandon him.

3.37

That is unwholesome for those distressed by poison, fainting, and intoxication, and for the emaciated; / it is wholesome for a person who has arisen from sleep, eaten, bathed, or vomited.

He will explain that in the later sections.

Now, one should massage the newly delivered woman with balā oil.

And when she is hungry, one should make her drink an amount of unctuous substance digestable within a day, according to habituation, combined with the powder of the five spices, or with the powder of ajwain, small fennel, wild pepper, leadwort, the three pungents, and rock salt.

For one unfit for oleation, a decoction of vāta-dispelling drugs, or a decoction of the lesser five roots.

Cooing like a dove, suffering from flank pain, and then for him,

Puffed rice, water chestnut, nutgrass, dates, and black soil.

In case of vāta, however, one should drink another medicine with unctuous substance and salt.

Seized by thirst and having sunken eyes, śuṣkarevatī destroys him.

3.38

That [betel preparation contains] two leaves, one areca nut, and catechu with slaked lime.

From there, he should energetically rise for matters that lead to prosperity.

So that vāta may not produce disorders of the abdomen due to lack of [properly filled] space.

When the unctuous substance is digested, one should give her to drink, in proper measure, a well-cooked, liquid gruel prepared with the very same previous medicines, or with a decoction of the vidāryādi group, or with milk.

Before taking the unctuous substance and the gruel, at both times, one should sprinkle her with warm water.

For one who is emaciated, there may be bloody urine and stiffness in the back and waist.

Red ochre, liquorice, lodhra, conch shell, snail shell, and collyrium:

Medicines that pacify pitta, and are sweet and cooling, are praised in that condition.

3.39

Even a long life is condemned if the means [of sustenance] are not at hand.

[He should pursue] agriculture, trade, cattle-rearing, or, by appropriate means, [service to] a virtuous king.

After twelve nights, one should gradually nourish her with meat-broth of arid-zone animals and the like, taking into account the strength of her digestive fire and other factors.

And one should give her boiled, cooled water to drink.

Likewise, one should treat her with inunctions, unctuous pastes, affusions, tub baths, and wholesome foods and drinks prepared with vitalising, bulk-promoting, sweet, and vāta-pacifying substances.

For in this way, her entire body having become empty and depleted through the growth of the fetus, the loosened bodily tissues, straining, pain, moisture, and excessive loss of blood, she is renewed again.

Through the causal factors of consumption, they produce a cough; then he spits up kapha.

Paṭola, jasmine, neem, the two sandalwoods, and red lotus:

Medicine there should be sharp, hot, pungent, and the like, which removes kapha and is beneficial.

With an ulcerated tongue, groaning heavily, miserable, and with tearful eyes.

3.40

One desiring wealth should engage in action that does not conflict with either world.

And one whose natural urges have been released [may engage in] travel, sleep, meals, assemblies, and women.

Therefore, one should treat her with care according to the prescribed rule.

Treated in this way for a month and a half, gradually freed from the constraints of diet and conduct, she becomes free of the designation of a puerperal woman—or, according to some, until the reappearance of menstrual fluid.

Both flanks seem to break, and the heart feels as if it is falling.

Śatāvarī, gopakanyā, the two kākolīs, and liquorice;

Excitation of doṣas, severe abdominal distension, cutting pain, and discharge.

Emaciated, he smears his own urine and feces without disgust.

3.41

Having touched with his hand a jewel, an object of worship, clarified butter, and auspicious items, he should go out;

Equipped with an umbrella and footwear, he should walk looking ahead a yoke's length.

Until then, the woman should follow the entire regimen fully as instructed.

An oily and clear face, and lustrous teeth and eyes.

When blood is clotted, one should lick pigeon droppings mixed with honey.

These, together with the discharge of bodily tissues, are declared to be the twelve complications along with their treatments,
arising from errors in procedure in both kinds of purgation.

And likewise, he might enter blazing fire, or [injure himself] with weapons, wood, and the like.

3.42

And at night on urgent business, [he should go] carrying a staff, wearing a headdress, and with a companion;

He should wander at night covering [his head], but not covering his head by day.

He should eat the liver of an arid-zone animal, or of a goat, accompanied by bile.

In this very direction he should quickly strive for success; for the treatise is the lamp regarding proper and improper conduct.

Thirst, burning sensation, and confusion; and he may start vomiting pus,
and [discharge] blood from all passages, with the emergence of fatal signs—one should abandon him.

3.43

He should not step upon shrines, venerable persons, flags, inauspicious shadows, ashes, chaff, or impurities,
nor upon gravel, clods of earth, places of offering, or bathing sites.

Or it is manageable in the strong; likewise, [that arising] from trauma—those two are manageable when acute.

Paṭola leaves, dusparśā, samaṅgā, and the sārivā creeper;

Excited yet calm, hard to cure, afflicted by a desire for sexual pleasure.

3.44

At midday, at dawn and dusk, at night, and at midnight, he should not frequent a crossroads;
nor at night should he frequent a sacred tree, a shrine, or a public square.

Mixed cases are manageable, as are all arising from two [doṣas], and [those occurring] from old age in an elderly person.

Kirātatikta, betel nut, mustā, kaṭphala, and padmaka;

He looks around suspiciously, screams, meditates, and becomes terrified.

3.45

He should not go even by day to slaughterhouses, forests, empty houses, or cremation grounds.
He should not grunt contemptuously at a corpse, an elder, or auspicious and praised things.

Because they arise through neglect, he must therefore overcome it quickly.

Combined with sandalwood individually or all together, with sugar;

One should know that one seized by a desire for offerings is easy to cure.

3.46

He should not circumambulate [venerable objects] keeping them to his left, nor circumambulate others keeping them to his right.
He should bow to crossroads and well-known great trees.

Taken as a drink, it quickly overcomes bleeding, and also thirst, burning sensation, and darkness of vision.

As for the other two, [one cures them] as desired through gifts of objects of pleasure, offerings, and the like.

3.47

He should not travel with vicious, diseased, or inauspicious mounts, nor with those that are untrained, hungry, or thirsty,
nor with those that have docked tails, or are blind in one eye, or [ride] on the back of a bull or cow.

A decoction of balā and water, left overnight, cures bleeding disorders.

3.48

Not too early in the morning, nor too late in the evening, nor when the sun is in the middle of the sky;
not without drinking water near at hand, not too swiftly, and not incessantly.

Cold, with sugar and honey, it overcomes excessive bleeding.

3.49

Not with an enemy, not with unknown persons, not alone, and not with the unrighteous.
He should yield the path to the afflicted, the aged, women, those carrying burdens, vehicles, and the twice-born.

From [water] mixed with red ochre, śyāmā, sārivā, mustā, dhātakī, and liquorice.

3.50

He should not perform bathing, eating, or drinking ahead of his draft animals.
He should not cross a river with his arms, nor advance into a mass of fire.

He should drink honey-water and sugarcane juice; it overcomes bleeding.

3.51

He should not climb an uneven mountain, a risky boat, or a tree.
He should not knock down fruit from a tree with a clod of earth, nor with another fruit.

That water kept exposed to the open air at night and strained in the morning.

3.52

He should not enter when barred, nor through an improper entrance, nor sit on a seat unbidden
in another's house; he should not awaken someone asleep in proper slumber.

Or a paste of trapusī root with honey and rice-water.

3.53

He should not act with fickleness of hands, speech, feet, eyes, penis, or belly.
He should groom his hair, beard, nails, and bodily hair three times a fortnight.

With lodhra, sandalwood, and liquorice, or with liquorice alone.

3.54

Not with his own hand or teeth; and he should bathe thereafter.
Then, when the desire for food and drink has arisen, [one should treat him] with wind-pacifying and fragrant substances.

And guḍūcī; this cold decoction overcomes bleeding disorders.

3.55

One should practice oil massage using oils pleasant to the touch according to the season. / Oil massage pacifies vāta and produces nourishment, sleep, firmness, and fullness of the body. / [Therapeutic text intercalated: With these various decoctions, when the digestive fire is stimulated and kapha is overcome,]

3.56

It dispels the pain of burns, fractures, and trauma, as well as exhaustion, fatigue, and old age. / The benefits derived from oil massage are like [those of lubricating] a chariot's axle, hide, or a leather pot. / [Therapeutic text intercalated: One should likewise administer goat's milk boiled in five times as much water, or cow's milk;]

3.57

Vāyu predominates in the organ of touch, and touch resides in the skin. / Moreover, oil massage is exceedingly beneficial for the skin; therefore, one should practice it regularly. / [Therapeutic text intercalated: With jīvaka, ṛṣabhaka, grapes, balā, gokṣura, and ginger;]

3.58

One should practice it particularly on the head, ears, and feet. / Practiced upon the head, it is beneficial for the hair and nourishes the skull and the sense organs. / [Therapeutic text intercalated: The flower of vamanī, madhuka, honey, and sugar along with milk;]

3.59

Filling the ears [with oil] cures pain of the jaw, neck, head, and ears. / Massage of the feet produces firmness in them, sleep, and clarity of vision. / [Therapeutic text intercalated: It quickly destroys painful bleeding, especially that entering the urinary tract;]

3.60

It dispels numbness, fatigue, stiffness, contraction, and cracking of the feet. / Oil massage should be avoided by those afflicted with kapha, those who have just undergone purification, and those suffering from indigestion. / [Therapeutic text intercalated: Or with aerial roots or buds of the banyan, dry ginger, udīcya, and water lily;]

3.61

Action that produces physical exertion is called exercise. / Lightness, capacity for work, a kindled digestive fire, and loss of fat, / [Therapeutic text intercalated: Having drunk the decoctions with milk, one should eat only with milk; or one should administer ghee prepared with these decoction compounds;]

3.62

As well as distinct and firm limbs, arise from exercise. / One suffering from vāta or pitta diseases, a child, an elderly person, and one with indigestion should avoid it. / [Therapeutic text intercalated: Having boiled [the decoction] down to an eighth part, one should prepare the ghee with it;]

3.63

It should be practiced to half one's capacity by strong individuals who consume unctuous food, / In the cold season and in spring, but only mildly at other times. / [Therapeutic text intercalated: Abdominal swelling of pitta origin, fever, dyspnea, cough, heart disease, and jaundice;]

3.64

Having performed it, one should massage the body pleasantly all over. / Thirst, wasting, severe dyspnea, bleeding disorder, fatigue, and exhaustion, / [Therapeutic text intercalated: One should prepare ghee containing a paste of that in fresh juice of palāśa petioles;]

3.65

Cough, fever, and vomiting arise from excessive exercise. / Rash overexertion in exercise, staying awake at night, walking long distances, sex, laughing, and talking / [Therapeutic text intercalated: With lodhra, blue water lily, samaṅgā, and likewise with trāyamāṇā;]

3.66

Destroys a person who indulges in it excessively, just as a lion [perishes] dragging an elephant. / Powder massage pacifies kapha and liquefies fat; / [Therapeutic text intercalated: Having prepared a poultice with ghee, one should eat it to check blood-pitta;]

3.67

It brings firmness to the limbs and is supreme in clearing the skin. / Bathing stimulates the digestive fire, is aphrodisiac, promotes longevity, and confers vitality and strength; / [Therapeutic text intercalated: One should lick the alkaline ash obtained from the stalk of the blue water lily with honey and ghee;]

3.68

It conquers itching, dirt, fatigue, sweat, drowsiness, thirst, burning sensation, and sin. / Pouring warm water over the lower body confers strength; / [Therapeutic text intercalated: Likewise, one should prepare ghee separately with alkaline ash and milk;]

3.69

However, [pouring it] over the head deprives the hair and eyes of strength. / One should not bathe without wetting the head, nor in scarce water, nor in cold water; / [Therapeutic text intercalated: With root of citron, vidārī, and madhuka;]

3.70

Nor should one enter the water or sleep naked. / One should not bathe in another's body of water without first lifting out five lumps [of mud]. / [Therapeutic text intercalated: And prepared with the five groups of five roots, it accomplishes that purpose;]

3.71

One should not gaze at one's reflection in water, nor gaze into a reservoir while standing on its bank; / Nor should one splash the water with the hand or foot. / [Therapeutic text intercalated: With madhuka, añjana, māñjiṣṭhā, lotus stalk, blue water lily, and red ochre;]

3.72

Having bathed, one should not rub the limbs [harshly] or shake the hair of the head. / While still damp, one should quickly put on two clean garments along with a turban; / [Therapeutic text intercalated: With saugandhika, sugar, and conch shell ground and combined with honey and ghee;]

3.73

One should not touch a previously worn garment or one soiled with oil. / One garment should be used for sleeping, another for going out, and another for worshiping deities. / [Therapeutic text intercalated: One should feed śāli rice with milk, and then with ghee prepared with madhuka;]

3.74

Bathing is condemned in those with facial paralysis, diseases of the eyes, mouth, and ears, and diarrhea, / As well as in those with flatulence, chronic coryza, indigestion, and those who have just eaten. / [Therapeutic text intercalated: When the previous meal is digested and bleeding is excessive, and when there is excess purgation, one should perform [it];]

3.75

One should take food according to the rules of dietetics, without haste, / Delighted and serene in mind, having made oblations and given [food] according to one's capacity, / [Therapeutic text intercalated: With honey, sugar, and ghee; and ghee in an unctuous enema;]

3.76

Saying, 'Cooked food with water, in solitude, according to your pleasure!' / One should bestow it intending all beings; one should not cook food solely for oneself. / [Therapeutic text intercalated: The procedure in menorrhagia also is remembered as being identical with such remedies;]

3.77

One should not eat the food of the dying, the dead, or those living in misery, / Nor of henpecked men, eunuchs, outcasts, the cruel, or evildoers, / [Therapeutic text intercalated: The medicine stated especially for menorrhagia and for gynecological disorders;]

3.78

Nor the food of an assembly, an enemy, a courtesan, a public charity, a rogue, or a merchant. / One should not eat snacks held in the lap, nor drink water with cupped hands. / [Therapeutic text intercalated: The decoction compounds stated earlier, blended with the juice of milk, sugarcane, and the like;]

3.79

One should not eat anything prepared with sesame once the sun has set. / One should not remain seated immediately after eating, nor indulge in forbidden pleasure. / [Therapeutic text intercalated: The juice of pomegranate flowers, mango stone, and green turf grass;]

3.80

One should spend the middle of the day in the company of agreeable and cultured companions / Engaged in meaningful conversations centered on virtue and endowed with the three aims of life. / Whatsoever medicine, external and internal, is prescribed in fever of pitta origin, / And whatever is wholesome in chest trauma with wasting, is also wholesome in bleeding disorders.

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Śaśilekhā — Indu, Sanskrit

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Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit