The Compendium of Bheḷa 2.7
Bheḷasaṃhitā 2.7
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- Sanskrit
2.7.1
yassadā śleṣmalo jantuḥ śleṣmalaṃ bhajate ' śanam | sevate ca divāsvapnaṃ tasya śleṣmā pravardhate ||
A person who is always of phlegmatic constitution, who resorts to phlegm-producing food / and indulges in day-sleep—his phlegm increases.
2.7.2
sa vṛddha ūrdhvaṃ hṛdayād gṛhītvā dhamanīrdaśa | ruddhvā cetovahaṃ mārgaṃ saṃjñāṃ bhraṃśayate tataḥ ||
Increased, [moving] upward from the heart and seizing the ten vessels, / obstructing the channel that carries consciousness, it then causes consciousness to be lost.
2.7.3
sa bhraṣṭasaṃjñaḥ puruṣastāni tāni viceṣṭate | gāyannṛtyati caikatra hasatyatha ca roditi ||
Deprived of consciousness, that person performs various strange actions: / singing and dancing in one spot, now laughing, and now weeping.
2.7.4
ekatrāste vinā lokaṃśete cāpi jaḍo yathā | janaṃbhīṣayate cāpi śleṣmonmādī pumāniha ||
He sits alone away from people, and also lies down like an idiot; / he also terrifies people—such here is a man suffering from phlegm-insanity.
2.7.5
yas tv etat sarvamaśnāti yathoktaṃ doṣakopanam | sannipātāttathonmādaṃ sarvaliṅgaṃ sa ṛcchati ||
He, however, who consumes all this that provokes the doṣas as described, / incurs insanity from combination [of doṣas], having all the symptoms.
2.7.6
sa yadā dhananāśena maraṇena priyasya vā | atha cintayate, tasya saṃjñā bhraśyati cintayā ||
When, through loss of wealth or the death of a loved one, / he then broods, his consciousness is lost through grief.
2.7.7
sa cintayati yānbhāvāṃstāneva pralapatyatha | āgantuṃ pañcamaṃ vidyādity unmādaṃ śarīriṇām ||
Whatever matters he broods upon, those very things he then babbles about; / one should know the fifth insanity of embodied beings to be of external origin.
2.7.8
sarvān etān vijānīyādunmādānvai cikitsitāt | duḥkhenasaṃjñābhraṣṭo hi prakṛtiṃ punar ṛcchati ||
One should recognize all these insanities indeed as curable; / for having lost his consciousness, he regains his normal state only with difficulty.
2.7.9
evaṃ śarīrajā doṣāḥ śarīre paryavasthitāḥ | śarīram eva hiṃsanti pāvakaḥ svamivāśrayam ||
Thus the body-born doṣas situated within the body / harm the body itself, just as fire [harms] its own resting place.
2.7.10
na hi satvāni hiṃsanti na piśācā na rākṣasāḥ | devās tathā dharmaśīlāḥ madhyasthā manujānprati ||
Neither spirits harm [them], nor piśācas, nor rākṣasas; / likewise, the gods of righteous conduct are indifferent towards human beings.
2.7.11
vamane recane yuktonirūhe cānuvāsane | na jātu dāruṇān rogānunmādān prāpnuyān naraḥ || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele nidāne saptamo ' dhyāyaḥ || || aṣṭamo ' dhyāyaḥ || athāto ' pasmāranidānaṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ |
If a man is engaged in emesis, purging, non-unctuous enema, and unctuous enema, / he would never contract dread diseases such as insanities. Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the seventh chapter in the Nidāna of Bheḷa. / Eighth chapter. / Now we shall explain the etiology of epilepsy; thus said the venerable Ātreya.
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