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# The Compendium of Bheḷa 4.3.20

Bheḷasaṃhitā 4.3.20

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.3.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.20)

lakṣaṇaṃ ca samutthānam ity etat samudāhṛtam | tisṛṇāṃ sattvayonīnāṃ,miśrāṃstenaiva\[mitrāntenaira\] lakṣayet || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele śārīre tṛtīyo ' dhyāyaḥ || caturtho ' dhyāyaḥ || athātaḥ puruṣanicayaṃ śārīraṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ |

> The characteristics and the origin—thus has this been declared / of the three matrices of sattva; one should characterize mixed ones by that very means." Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the third chapter in the Section on the Body in Bheḷa. / Fourth chapter. / Now we shall explain the chapter on the body entitled "Aggregate of Man" (Puruṣanicaya); thus said the venerable Ātreya.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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