[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) › 5.10 # The Compendium of Bheḷa 5.10 Bheḷasaṃhitā 5.10 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.10.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.10.1) anucchāyāthavā jantordṛḍhacchāyāthavā punaḥ | vicchinnā yasya vā chāyā na sa jīvati tādṛśaḥ || > Whether a living being has no shadow, or a dense shadow, / or whose shadow is broken, such a one does not live. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.10.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.10.2) yo vidyutamivākāśe vyabhre paśyati mānavaḥ | dhūmāyate śiraśchāyā yasya nāstīti taṃ viduḥ || > A person who sees what seems like lightning in a cloudless sky, / \[or\] whose head's shadow smokes, they know him as one who is no more. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.10.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.10.3) lākṣāraktaṃ yathā vastramevaṃ paśyati yo mahīm | athavā raktamākāśaṃ raktapittena hanyate || > One who sees the earth as cloth dyed red with lac, / or the sky as red, is killed by internal hemorrhage. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.10.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.10.4) yo hṛṣṭaromā puruṣaḥ kāsena śleṣmaṇācitaḥ | kaṇṭhaś ca śūkānugato yasya nāstīti taṃ viduḥ || > A man whose body-hair is bristling, who is overwhelmed with cough and phlegm, / and whose throat feels pierced by awns, they know him as one who is no more. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.10.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.10.5) yasya śaṅkhāccyutaṃ māṃsaṃ śyāve netre tathaiva ca | cūrṇakaś ca mukhe jātaḥ paretaṃ tasya jīvitam || > From whose temple the flesh has fallen away, whose eyes are dark grey, / and on whose face a powdery residue has appeared, his life has departed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.10.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.10.6) yasya hastāccyutaṃ māṃsaṃ jantordṛśyeta kuṣṭhinaḥ | athāviprayuktasya na sa jīvati mānavaḥ || > From whose hand the flesh is seen to have fallen away in a leprous person, / or in one free \[from that disease\], such a man does not live. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.10.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.10.7) avipakvaṃ vipakvaṃ vā bhuktaṃ bhuktaṃ yathā bhavet | kāśaśvāsajvaraiḥ spṛṣṭo nāsti tasya cikitsitam || > Whatever he eats, whether undigested or digested, / if he is afflicted with cough, dyspnea, and fever, there is no treatment for him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.10.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.10.8) hṛdayaṃpūrvamāvāti yasya snātasya dehinaḥ | ardhamāsātparaṃ tasya jīvitaṃ nātivartate || > Whose heart dries first when the embodied being has bathed, / his life does not endure beyond half a month. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.10.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.10.9) ūrdhvaśvāsahato yas tu raktaṃ pracchardayen naraḥ | śūlaṃ vā bhinnakoṣṭhasya na sa jīvati mānavaḥ || > A man struck by upward dyspnea who vomits blood, / or has colic with a ruptured abdomen, such a man does not live. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.10.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.10.10) antardāho ' dhiko yasya śītārtiś cāpi bāhyataḥ | ākāśaṃ paripūrṇaṃ vā vetti yo na sa jīvati || > Whose internal burning is intense and who also suffers from cold externally, / or who perceives the sky as completely filled, he does not live. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.10.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.10.11) yasya pakvāvubhāvoṣṭhau nīlaujambūphalopamau | ucchūnaṃ yasya ca śiraḥ paretaṃ tasya jīvitam || > Whose lips are both suppurated, dark blue like jambu fruit, / and whose head is swollen, his life has departed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.10.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.10.12) yasyocchūnaṃ bhavenmadhyamubhāvaṃsau kṛśau tathā | viriktaḥ punarādhmāti yathā pretas tathaiva saḥ || > Whose torso becomes swollen while both shoulders are emaciated, / and having been purged, swells again with gas, he is just like a dead man. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.10.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.10.13) etadindriyavijñānaṃ yassamyaganupaśyati | sajīvitaṃ ca mṛtyuṃ ca nṛṇāṃ vidyādbhiṣagvaraḥ || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele indriye daśamo ' dhyāyaḥ || || ekadaśo ' dhyāyaḥ || athātaḥ puṣpīyaṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | > The excellent physician who correctly perceives this sensory knowledge / will know both the life and death of men. > Thus said the venerable Ātreya. > Thus ends the tenth chapter in the Section on Sensory Prognostics in the work of Bheḷa. > Chapter Eleven. > Now we shall explain \[the chapter\] on the flowering \[of death\]; 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.5.10.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Carakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.10) — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.10) · Pramāṇa