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# The Compendium of Bheḷa 5.12

Bheḷasaṃhitā 5.12

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [5.12.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.1)

avākcitā vā jihmā vā yasya chāyālpikā bhāvet | netre ca viṣame syātāṃ paretaṃ tasya jīvitam || 5.1

> Whose shadow is cast downward, or crooked, or becomes very small, / and whose eyes become unequal, his life is gone. 5.1  
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### [5.12.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.2)

yadi dīnāni pakṣmāṇi na nimīlanti dehinaḥ | dahyete nayane vāpi paretaṃ tasya jīvitam ||

> If an embodied being's eyelashes are miserable and do not close, / or both eyes burn, his life is gone.  
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### [5.12.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.3)

namantyau yasya dṛśyetebhruvau mūrdhani bā sthite | jīvet tu satryahaṃ rogī ṣaṇmāsān vyādhivarjitaḥ ||

> Whose eyebrows are seen drooping or situated upon his forehead: / a sick person would live for three days, \[and\] one free of disease for six months.  
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### [5.12.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.4)

luñcyamāneṣu keśeṣuvedayannāti vedanām | nivṛttasukhaduḥkhaḥ syāt paretaṃ tasya jīvitam ||

> When his hair is plucked out and he feels no pain, / and pleasure and pain have ceased for him, his life is gone.  
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### [5.12.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.5)

yasyāturasya piṭakā vyaṅgo vā dṛśyate mukhe | adṛṣṭapūrvaṃ prathamaṃ paretaṃ tasya jīvitam ||

> On which patient's face an eruption or facial blemish is seen / for the first time, never seen before, his life is gone.  
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### [5.12.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.6)

śuṣyate nāsikāvaṃśaḥ pṛthutvaṃ yasya gacchati | aṃso ' nilāt kāsavataḥ paretaṃ tasya jīvitam ||

> Whose bridge of the nose dries up, whose shoulder becomes broad / from wind in one suffering from cough, his life is gone.  
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### [5.12.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.7)

atyuṣṇaṃ vātiśītaṃ vā stabdhaṃ vā mṛdu vāpy atha | manyate pāṇipādaṃ ca paretaṃ tasya jībitam ||

> Or who perceives his hands and feet as extremely hot, or extremely cold, / or stiff, or soft, his life is gone.  
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### [5.12.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.8)

yo ' vatīrya nadīṃ pūrṇāṃ toye paśyati jālakam | gātraṃ liptamathādbhiś ca yasya nāstīti taṃ viduḥ ||

> He who, having descended into a full river, sees a network in the water, / and whose body is not anointed by the water—they know of him that he is no more.  
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### [5.12.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.9)

vivartayati yaḥ śīrṣamatyarthaṃ canasā naraḥ | na svidyate lalāṭaṃ ca nāsti tasya cikitsitam ||

> A man who constantly rolls his head and rolls his nose, / and whose forehead does not sweat, has no cure.  
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### [5.12.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.10)

jvaryate kāsate vāpi tathocchavasiti vai dṛḍham | ākramyate tāmyate ca yathā pretas tathaiva saḥ ||

> He who is feverish, or coughs, and likewise gasps deeply for breath, / is attacked \[by weakness\], and faints—he is just like a dead man.  
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### [5.12.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.11)

yasyodaraṃsamādhmātaṃ tadvartma ca vibhāvyate | bhinnaṃ purīṣaṃ tṛṣṇā ca yathā pretas tathaiva saḥ ||

> Whose abdomen is completely distended, and its pathway is clearly visible, / with loose stools and thirst—he is just like a dead man.  
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### [5.12.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.12)

anārataṃ gṛhe yasyakāṃsyaṃ bhidyeta dehinaḥ | candrastīkṣṇo mṛduścārko yasya syāt taṃ vivarjayet ||

> The embodied being in whose house bell-metal constantly breaks, / and for whom the moon seems sharp and the sun mild, one should abandon him.  
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### [5.12.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.13)

apradhātuḥ pradhāturvā svastho vā yadivā++āturaḥ | yaścandanamivāvāti na sa jīvati tādṛśaḥ ||

> Whether non-dribbling or dribbling \[bodily fluids\], whether healthy or sick, / he who smells like sandalwood, such a person does not live.  
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### [5.12.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.14)

yūthikotpannagaṇḍaśca, vāti yaś cāpi vartmavat | abhaktaḥ tasimaṃ bālye yo vāti na sa jīvati ||

> And he who has swellings born like jasmine buds, and also smells like a road, / and who, not having eaten, smells like \[…\] in childhood, does not live.  
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### [5.12.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.15)

dviṣadbhiḥ kurute sakhyaṃ yaḥ priyairyāt i vipriyam | akasmātkupyate yas tu paretaṃ tasya jīvitam ||

> He who makes friends with enemies, acts disagreeably toward dear ones, / and becomes angry without cause, his life is gone.  
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### [5.12.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.16)

ebhir evaṃvidhairliṅgairanyaiś cāpi yathāyatham | nopakrameta medhāvī bhiṣaganvitamāturam ||

> An intelligent physician should not undertake to treat a patient / endowed with signs such as these and others, as appropriate.  
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### [5.12.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.12.17)

etadbhiṣagariṣṭānāṃ yo jñānamanubudhyate | yathoktaṃ veda vedāyuḥ sa bhiṣak śāstrakovidaḥ || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele indriye dvādaśo ' dhyāyaḥ || iti bhelasaṃhitāyām indriyasthānaṃ samāptam || | |cikitsāsthānam || || prathamo ' dhyāyaḥ || athāta ekādaśasarpiṣkaṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ |

> Which physician understands this knowledge of fatal signs / as stated, he knows the Veda of life (Āyurveda); he is a physician skilled in the treatises. / Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the twelfth chapter in the Sensory Prognostics of Bhela. / Thus ends the Section on Sensory Prognostics in the Compendium of Bhela. // Section on Therapeutics // First Chapter // Now we shall explain the eleven medicated ghees; thus spoke the venerable Ātreya.  
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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela~en-mt.5.12.1) — English, machine translation

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