[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) › [The Compendium of Bheḷa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela) › 1.12 # The Compendium of Bheḷa 1.12 Bheḷasaṃhitā 1.12 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.12.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.1) ātreyaḥ khaṇḍakāpyaś ca maitreyo ' nye ca tadvidhāḥ | rasasaṃkhyākathāṃ cakrurvane caitrarathe dvijāḥ || > Ātreya, Khaṇḍakāpya, Maitreya, and others of their kind— / those twice-born ones engaged in a discussion on the number of tastes in the Caitraratha forest. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.2) tatra kaścidrasaikatvaṃ rasasāmānyato ' bravīt | sātmyāsātmyāttathā dvitvaṃ traividhyaṃ sthānato ' pare || > There, someone stated unity of taste based on the common nature of taste; / likewise duality from suitability and unsuitability; others stated triplicity based on location; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.3) svādurasvāduramṛdurmṛduśceti catuṣṭayam | mahābhūtavibhāgena pañcetyāhustathāpare || > sweet, not sweet, not soft, and soft—thus a group of four; / according to the division of the great elements, others said there are five. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.4) tadetad evaṃ jānīyādyathoktādeva kāraṇāt | ṣaṭtvaṃsaptatvamathavābrūyustadrucibhedataḥ || > One should understand this thus from the aforementioned reason; / or they might declare sixfoldness or sevenfoldness according to the variety of tastes: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.5) madhuro lavaṇāmlau ca kaṣāyakaṭutiktakāḥ | kṣāraś ca tān rasān saptanātirekaṃ samācaret || > sweet, salty, and sour, astringent, pungent, and bitter, / and alkaline—these are the seven tastes; one should not indulge in an excess \[of any\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.6) rasātisevanājjantussadyo mṛtyumavāpnuyāt | bhaveyurvyādhayaś cāsyarasavyāsaṅgasaṃbhavāḥ || > From excessive indulgence in a taste, a creature may meet with sudden death, / and diseases arising from the exclusive attachment to a taste would occur in him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.7) vṛttarohitarājībhiḥ vṛttākṣaśśakalī tathā | matsyaścilicimo nāma kūle carati vāriṇaḥ || > With round red stripes, round-eyed, and scaly, / a fish named cilicima moves along the shore of the water. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.8) taṃ matsyaṃ varjayed ekaṃ dugdhenānyāṃs tu bhakṣayet | payasā bhakṣyamāṇas tunararaktaṃ pradūṣayan || > One should avoid that fish alone with milk, but one may eat others. / However, being eaten with milk, it vitiates a man's blood, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.9) raktavyāpattijānvyādhīn mṛtyuṃ cāpisa yacchati | śvāvidvarāhaṃ caikatra payasā parivarjayet || > and brings about diseases born of blood disorders and even death. / One should avoid porcupine and boar together with milk. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.10) vanyamūlaphalāhārastadvidhena viruddhyate | aśnīyātpayasāyas tu sadyo mṛtyumavāpnuyāt || > A diet of wild roots and fruits is incompatible with the same kind. / But he who eats \[them\] with milk would meet with immediate death; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.11) bhaveyurvyādhayaś cāsyaśaṅkharogagalagrahāḥ | madhunā gorasenāpi likucaṃna ca bhakṣayet || > and diseases such as headache and constriction of the throat would occur in him. / One should not eat likuca fruit with honey or with cow's milk; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.12) bādhiryaṃ vā ' pyathāndhyaṃ vā mṛtyuṃ vā bhakṣayan vrajet | kapotān sarṣapairbhṛṣṭān payasā na tu bhakṣayet || > eating \[it, one\] may go to deafness, or blindness, or death. / One must not eat pigeons fried in mustard \[oil\] with milk; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.13) majjāvyāpattijān vyādhīnprāpnuyāddhi tathā param | payasā sarpadaṣṭassankhādyaissiddhyatitādṛśaiḥ || > for he would indeed obtain diseases born of marrow disorders, and further, / being bitten by a snake, one recovers through such foods with milk. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.14) krimijā vyādhayaś cāsya dṛśyante yadi jīvati | iha yā strī pumāṃś caiva hitajīrṇamitāśanau || > And diseases born of worms are seen in him, if he survives. / In this world, a woman and a man who eat wholesome, digested, and measured food, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.15) anudāvartinau caiva syātāṃ garbhastayoḥ khalu | balavān varṇavāṃś caiva cakṣuṣmāṃś ca bhavatyatha || > and who are free from upward movement of vāta—their fetus indeed / becomes strong, endowed with complexion, and possessor of good sight. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.16) viparyaye vartamānau viparītamiharcchataḥ | ajīrṇe tvaśanaṃ yasya jīrṇe cānaśanaṃ bhavet || > Conducting themselves in the opposite manner, they meet with the opposite in this world. / For him in whom there is eating during indigestion, and fasting when food is digested, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.12.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12.17) sa tathobhayathā rogān dāruṇān prāpyān naraḥ | tasmājjīrṇe ca pathyāś ca mātrāvanto ' virodhinaḥ | sarvaeva rasā bhojyāḥyuktyā saṃvṛtadhātubhiḥ || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele dvādaśo ' dhyāyaḥ || | |trayodaśo ' dhyāyaḥ || athāto janapadavibhaktīyaṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | > that man incurs terrible diseases in both ways. / Therefore, when food is digested, wholesome, measured, and mutually compatible, / all tastes should be consumed properly by those whose bodily elements are guarded. / Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the twelfth chapter in Bheḷa. / / Thirteenth chapter / / / Now next we shall expound the chapter on the classification of regions; thus said the venerable Ātreya. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela~en-mt.1.12.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.1.12) · Pramāṇa