[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) › 5.7 # The Compendium of Bheḷa 5.7 Bheḷasaṃhitā 5.7 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.7.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.1) indriyāṇi yathā jantoḥ parīkṣeta viśeṣataḥ | āyuḥpramāṇaṃjijñāsurbhiṣak tanme nibodhata || > Learn from me, O physician, how one should specially examine the sense faculties of a living being, / wishing to ascertain the span of life: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.2) annapānātparīkṣeta darśanādyaiś ca tattvataḥ | arthādivihitaṃ jñānamindriyāṇāmatīndriyam || > One should examine in reality, through food, drink, sight, and so on, / the knowledge of the sense faculties regarding objects and the like, which is beyond direct perception. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.3) svasthebhyo vikṛtaṃ yasya jñānamindriyasaṃśrayam | alakṣitaṃ nimittena lakṣaṇaṃmaraṇe hi tat || > When a person's cognition residing in the sense faculties is altered compared to healthy people, / without any \[external\] cause observed, that is indeed a sign of death. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.4) ity uktaṃ lakṣaṇaṃsamyagindriyeṣv aśubhodayam | tad evatu punarbhūyo vistareṇa nibodha me || > Thus has the sign indicating misfortune in the senses been properly stated. / Now hear it again in detail from me. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.5) ghanībhūtamivākāśaṃpaśyaṃstamivamedinīm | vigītaṃ hyubhayaṃ hyetatpaśyanmaraṇamṛcchati || > Seeing the sky as if solidified, and the earth as if dark / —seeing both of these discordantly, he meets death. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.6) yasya darśanam āyāti māruto ' mbaragocaraḥ | agnirnāyāti vādīptaḥ tasyāpi kṣayam ādiśet || > He to whose sight the wind moving through the sky becomes visible, / or to whom a blazing fire does not appear—one should declare his demise as well. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.7) jale ' pi nirmale jālamajālaṃ manute naraḥ | sthire gacchati vā dṛṣṭvā jīvitātparihīyate || > A man who imagines a net in clear water, or no net \[where one is\], / or having seen what is stationary as moving, falls away from life. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.8) jāgratpaśyati yaḥ pretān rakṣāṃsi vividhāni ca | anyadvāpyadbhutaṃ kiṃcinna sa jīvati tādṛśaḥ || > He who while awake sees ghosts, various demons, / or any other strange marvel, such a person does not live. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.9) yo ' gniṃ prakṛtivarṇasthaṃ nīlaṃ paśyati niṣprabham | kṛṣṇaṃ vā yadi vā śuklaṃ na sa jīvati mānavaḥ || > The man who sees fire, though in its natural color, as blue, lusterless, / black, or white, does not live. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.10) marīcīnasato meghemeghānvāpyamalāmbare | vidyuto vā vinā meghānna sa jīvati mānavaḥ || > A man who sees non-existent sunbeams in a cloud, or clouds in a spotless sky, / or lightning without clouds, does not live. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.11) mṛṇmayīmivavā pātrīṃ kṛṣṇāṃ vāpi purīṣitām | ādity amardhacandraṃ vā kṣipraṃ dṛṣṭvā vinaśyati || > Or having seen the sun or the crescent moon as if an earthen bowl, / or black, or smeared with feces, he quickly perishes. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.12) naktaṃ sūryamahaścandramavahnau dhūmamutthitam | agniṃ vā niṣprabhaṃ dṛṣṭvā rātrau, maraṇamādiśet || > Having seen the sun at night, the moon by day, smoke rising where there is no fire, / or lusterless fire at night, one should predict death. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.13) prabhāvataḥ prabhāṃ hīnāṃniṣprabhānvā prabhāvataḥ | narān viliṅgān paśyantibhāvān bhāvajighāṃsavaḥ || > Those whose vital states are about to perish see radiant things as deprived of radiance / and lusterless things as radiant, and they see men with abnormal signs. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.14) vyākṛtīni ca varṇāni visaṃkhyopacitāni ca | nimittāni ca paśyanti rūpāṇyāyuḥparikṣayāt || > Due to the exhaustion of their lifespan, they see colors distorted, / multiplied in number, and portents and forms. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.15) yas tu paśyatyadṛśyaṃ vā dṛśyaṃ yas tu na paśyati | tāvubhau gacchataḥ kṣipraṃ yamakṣayamasaṃśayam || > He who sees the invisible, or he who does not see the visible— / both of them undoubtedly go quickly to the abode of Yama. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.16) aśabdasya ca yaḥśrotā śabdaṃyaś ca na vindati | dvāvapy etau yathā pretau tathā jñeyau vijānatā || > He who hears non-sound, and he who does not perceive sound— / both of these should be known by the discerning physician as just like corpses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.17) viparyayeṇa yo vidyād gandhānāṃ caiva nāma tam | na vā tat sarvato vidyād vidyāt taṃ vai gatāyuṣam || > He who cognizes odors erroneously, / or does not perceive them at all—the physician should know him to be one whose life has departed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.18) yo rasaṃ na vijānātivipakvaṃ vā ca tattvataḥ | apakvaṃ dṛśyate,pakvaṃ tam āhuḥ kuśalā narāḥ || > He who does not recognize taste correctly, or perceives cooked as raw / and raw as cooked, him skilled men declare \[to be dying\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.19) uṣṇān śītān kharānślakṣṇān mṛdūnapi ca dāruṇān | spṛśyān spṛṣṭvā tato ' nyac ca mumūrṣusteṣu manyate || > Having touched things hot, cold, rough, smooth, soft, or even harsh, / one who is about to die conceives of them as something otherwise. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.20) antareṇa tapastīvraṃ yogaṃ vā vidhipūrvakam | indriyairadhikaṃ paśyan pañcatvam upapadyate || > Without intense asceticism or yoga performed according to rule, / one who perceives excessively with the senses undergoes dissolution into the five elements. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.21) indriyāṇāmṛtedṛṣṭerindriyārthānnadoṣajān | naraḥ paśyati yaḥ kaścidindriyairna sa jīvati || > Any man who perceives sense objects through the sense faculties without actual vision / and not caused by a morbid humor does not live. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.22) svasthāḥprajñāviparyāsairindriyārtheṣu vaikṛtam | paśyanti ye tu bahuśaḥ teṣāṃ maraṇamādiśet || > Those who, being otherwise healthy, repeatedly perceive distortion in sensory objects / due to perversions of judgment—one should predict their death. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7.23) etad eva ca vijñānaṃ yassamyaganupaśyati | maraṇaṃ jīvitaṃ caiva sa bhiṣag jñātumarhati || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele indriye saptamo ' dhyāyaḥ || || aṣṭamo ' dhyāyaḥ || athāto dūtādhyāyaṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | > A physician who correctly discerns this very knowledge / is worthy of knowing both death and life. > Thus said the venerable Ātreya. > Thus ends the seventh chapter in the Section on Sensory Prognostics in the work of Bheḷa. > Chapter Eight. > Now we shall explain the chapter on messengers; 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.5.7.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [Carakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.4.6) — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit - [Adbhutasāgara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.samhita.adbhuta.adbhutasagara.48.80) — Ballālasena & Lakṣmaṇasena, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.7) · Pramāṇa