[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) › 4.2 # The Compendium of Bheḷa 4.2 Bheḷasaṃhitā 4.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.2.3) aṅgāṅgeṣu pravṛddheṣu pratimūleṣu dhātuṣu | śuklaṃ ca ṣoḍaśe varṣe suvyaktaṃ pratipadyate || > When the several limbs have fully grown, and the dhātus are grounded at their sources, / semen is clearly produced in the sixteenth year. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.2.4) tathā vṛddhasya jantoś ca parikṣīṇeṣu dhātuṣu | vivekā\[ma\] na yathāpūrvaṃ vivicyante parikṣayāt || > Likewise, in an old person, when the dhātus are wasted away, / distinctions are not separated as before, owing to \[their\] wasting. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.2.5) tato ' lparetā bhavati sujīrṇo durbalo ' thavā | na paśyati naraḥ śuklaṃ sarvadhātuparikṣayāt || > Then a man comes to have little semen, or is thoroughly decrepit and weak; / he sees no semen, because of the wasting of all the dhātus. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.2.6) raktaṃ māṃsaṃvasāsthīni\[ca\] majjā śuklaṃ tathānalaḥ | śakṛnmūtre ca tairmandaṃ vidyānnavatitaḥ param || > Blood, flesh, fat, bones, marrow, semen, and likewise fire, / as well as feces and urine—one should know them to be diminished beyond ninety \[years\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.2.7) iha narchati garbhaṃ strī vātenopahatā tathā | yonidoṣeṇa\[yā\] cānnena na hi vandhyāsti nā ca na || > Here, a woman stricken by wind does not conceive an embryo; / likewise through a disorder of the yoni or through \[unwholesome\] food—for she is neither barren nor is he not a man. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.2.8) vamanaṃ recanaṃ caivavastimāsthāpanaṃ\[vastirā\] tathā | tasmāt tatkārayetstrīṇāṃ prasiddhāḥ prasuvanti\[prasa\] vai || > Emesis, purgation, and non-unctuous enema: / therefore one should administer these to women; \[then\] they become well-known to bring forth \[children\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.2.9) athātra bhavati praśnaḥkasmācchabdaṃ\[rasā chardiṃ\] na nāsayā | gṛhṇāsyāsyena\[gṛhīṣvā\] vā gandhaṃ tulyaṃ sarvatra khaṃ yadi || > Now, on this point a question arises: why do you not perceive sound with the nose, / or smell with the mouth, if space is equal everywhere? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.2.10) tvagbhāge\[tvadbhā\] ca same kasmānna gṛhṇātyanyayā rasam | iti tadvacanaṃ śrutvā pratyuvāca punarvasuḥ || > And when the skin-part is uniform, why does one not perceive taste with another \[part\]? / Having heard those words, Punarvasu replied: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.2.11) ghrāṇaṃ gandhaṃ ca bhaumaṃ hirūpaṃ\[rūkṣaṃ\] cakṣuś ca taijasam |saṃsparśaṃ sparśanaṃ vāyoḥ śrotraṃ śabdātmakhaṃ\[śabdātmakaṃ\] tathā || > The nose and smell are earthy; form and the eye are fiery; / touch and the tactile organ are of wind; and the ear consists of sound and space. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.2.12) rasanaṃ ca raso hyāpyaṃ\[vyā-\] tasmād etairihendriyaiḥ | yathāsvaṃ tulyayogitvād viṣayagrahaṇaṃ smṛtam || > And the gustatory organ and taste are watery; therefore, by these sense organs here, / apprehension of objects is taught according to their own nature, due to their having homologous qualities. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.2.13) svaṃ svaṃ hi viṣayaṃ dhātur vijānāty ātmanānvitaḥ | ātmendriyamanorthānāṃbandhācceti\[bandhiśce\] samādiśa || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele dvitīyo ' dhyāyaḥ || tṛtīyo ' dhyāyaḥ | athāto ' samānagotrīyaṃ śārīraṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | > "For each constituent element, accompanied by the self, cognizes its own object, / and declare \[it to occur\] from the conjunction of the self, sense organs, mind, and objects." Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the second chapter in Bheḷa. / Third chapter. / Now we shall explain the chapter on the body entitled "Pertaining to Different Lineages" (Asamānagotrīya); 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.4.2.3) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.2) · Pramāṇa