[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) › 4.3 # The Compendium of Bheḷa 4.3 Bheḷasaṃhitā 4.3 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.1) ihāsamānagotrāntu\[vai\] ṛtusnātāṃ striyaṃ vrajet | medhāvinamarogaṃ\[di-\] sā putramevaṃ prasūyate || > Here, one should approach a woman of a different gotra who has bathed after her fertile period; / thus she gives birth to an intelligent, healthy son. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.2) bījadoṣādyathā sasyaṃ na samyakviprarohati\[-rohiṇī\] | mātāpitros tu doṣeṇa tathā garbhaḥpraṇaśyati\[prayaccha\] || > Just as a crop does not sprout properly from a defect in the seed, / so through a defect in the mother and father the embryo perishes. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.3) tasmāt samyagrasāhārāvṛtukāle\[dṛ-\] ' tha dampatī | rahas saṃyogam eyātāṃ smarantau manasā vibhum || > Therefore, having consumed properly nourishing food during the fertile period, the husband and wife / should enter into union in private, remembering the Lord in their minds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.4) vikṛtāḥ syuragarbhā vai rasāpathyaniṣevaṇe | sandhāraṇādvā vegānāṃ yonidoṣeṇa vā punaḥ || > There may be abnormalities or lack of conception if unwholesome tastes are consumed, / or from suppression of natural urges, or again through a disorder of the yoni. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.5) yonaudoṣopasṛṣṭāyāṃ\[doṣopavṛ-\] na garbho hy avatiṣṭhate | tathaivabāhyayonau\[brāhma\] hinirvāhiṇyāṃ\[nirvāhinyāṃ\] ca sarvadā || > When the yoni is afflicted by a doṣa, the embryo indeed does not stay; / likewise in an external yoni and always in an expelling one. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.6) gṛhṇāti vāyuryasyāṃ ca yonauśukram\[ruśraṃ\] upāgatam\[upāgataḥ\] | bibharti garbhaṇī garbhaṃ śuddhārtavasamanvitā || > And in which yoni the wind receives the incoming semen, / that pregnant woman bears the embryo, endowed with pure menstrual blood. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.7) cyavate ca yadā cāsau tadā garbhaḥ praṇaśyati | vātodaraṃ striyāstadvai tasmādūkṣāṇi\[dūpā\] varjayet || > And when that falls away, then the embryo perishes; / that is indeed wind-enlargement of the abdomen for a woman; therefore one should avoid dry things. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.8) bhavatyabhyadhike śukle puruṣaḥ śoṇite ' ṅganā | napuṃsakaṃ tayoḥ sāmye tasmācchuklaṃ vivardhayet || > When semen is predominant, a male is formed; when blood \[is predominant\], a female; / when the two are equal, a hermaphrodite; therefore one should increase semen. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.9) yadā tu kalalaṃ vāyustad dvidhā kurute balī | yamau tadā sambhavataḥ kṛṣṇātreyavaco yathā || > When, however, powerful wind divides the kalala into two, / twins are then produced, according to the word of Kṛṣṇa Ātreya. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.10) tatra śuklottare bhāge pumān raktottare ' ṅganā | anenaiva ca kalpena yamakeṣv api nirdiśet || > There, in the part where semen is greater, a male \[arises\]; where blood is greater, a female; / according to this very rule one should also determine \[the sex\] in twins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.11) vāyus tv aśvavarāhāṇāṃ deheṣu valavān punaḥ | sa tatra kalalaṃ bhittvā karoti bahuputratām || > Wind, on the other hand, is powerful in the bodies of horses and pigs; / dividing the kalala there, it produces numerous offspring. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.12) nāpnoti ca yadā garbho rasaṃ duṣṭaiḥ sirāmukhaiḥ | asaṃpūrṇo vasannāgaḥ tathā varṣāṇi tiṣṭhati || > And when the embryo does not receive nourishment through corrupted vessel-orifices, / remaining incomplete like an elephant, it stays so for years. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.13) sampūrṇagātro bhavati yadā sa rasabhāvitaḥ | tadāsūto\[prasautyathākāśaṃ\] yathākālaṃ garbhaḥ strīkukṣivicyutaḥ || > When, nurtured by nourishment, it becomes full-limbed, / then the embryo, having slipped from the woman's belly, is born at the proper time. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.14) ye ca te viṃśatiḥ proktā yonidoṣāś cikitsakaiḥ\[cikitsite\] |etaiś cānyaiś ca bahubhir garbho vyāpadyate striyāḥ || > And those twenty disorders of the yoni that are spoken of by physicians— / through these and many others, a woman's embryo suffers misfortune. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.15) tasmād etāṃścikitset tu doṣān putracikīrṣayā | ibhāśvagarbhasārūpyaṃ\[ibhāśvā\] prayogāddhi bhavec chuci || > Therefore, desiring a son, one should treat these doṣas; / for through therapy, resemblance to the embryo of elephants and horses becomes pure. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.16) vāyvākāśartuyukto hi daivateṣv itareṣu tu | antarjāto jātavedāḥ prabhāvāyopakalpate || > Joined with wind, space, and the season, \[fire\] among the other deities, / born within as Jātavedas, is capable of \[exerting\] power. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.17) ṛtau yadā strīpuruṣau prasannamanasau rahaḥ | upeyātām atha tadā garbho bhavati sāttvikaḥ || > When a man and woman in the fertile period, with serene minds, / unite in private, then the embryo becomes sāttvika. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.18) ṛtau yadā strīpuruṣau vyāyastamanasau bhṛśam | upeyātām atha tadā garbho bhavati rājasaḥ || > When a man and woman in the fertile period, with violently agitated minds, / unite, then the embryo becomes rājasa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.3.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3.19) ṛtau yadā strīpuruṣau pradīnamanasau rahaḥ | upeyātām atha tadā garbho bhavati tāmasaḥ || > When a man and woman in the fertile period, with deeply despondent minds, / unite in private, then the embryo becomes tāmasa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [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) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela~en-mt.4.3.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.4.3) · Pramāṇa