The Compendium of Bheḷa 5.8
Bheḷasaṃhitā 5.8
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5.8.1
tṛṇānnakhānvā chindan vai bhiṣajaṃ paripṛcchati | āturasya yadā dūtaḥ pratyākhyeyastathāvidhaḥ ||
When a messenger of the patient questions the physician while cutting grass / or paring his nails, such a one should be rejected.
5.8.2
viplutaṃ bhāṣamāṇaś ca bhiṣajaṃ paripṛcchati | āturasya yadā dūtaḥ pratyākhyeyastathāvidhaḥ ||
And when a messenger of the patient questions the physician / speaking confusedly, such a one should be rejected.
5.8.3
bhinatti kāṣṭhaṃ kāṣṭhena loṣṭaṃ loṣṭhena vāpy adhaḥ | āturasya yadā dūtaḥ pratyākhyeyastathāvidhaḥ ||
When a messenger of the patient breaks wood with wood / or a clod with a clod upon the ground, such a one should be rejected.
5.8.4
spṛśannaṅgāni bālāṃś ca bhiṣajaṃ paripṛcchati | āturasya yadā dūtaḥ pratyākhyeyastathāvidhaḥ ||
When a messenger of the patient questions the physician / while touching his limbs or his hair, such a one should be rejected.
5.8.5
pidhāya pāṇinā nābhiṃ bhiṣajaṃ paripṛcchati | āturasya yadā dūtaḥ pratyākhyeyastathāvidhaḥ ||
When a messenger of the patient questions the physician / while covering his navel with his hand, such a one should be rejected.
5.8.6
kapālikāṃ śarkarāṃ vā bhinattyaṅgārikām api | āturasya yadā dūtaḥ pratyākhyeyastathāvidhaḥ ||
When a messenger of the patient breaks a potsherd, / a pebble, or even a piece of charcoal, such a one should be rejected.
5.8.7
āste bhūmau pariśrānto gṛhṇātyaṅgamatha bhraman | āturasya yadā dūtaḥ pratyākhyeyastathāvidhaḥ ||
When a messenger of the patient sits exhausted on the ground, / or clutches a limb while wandering about, such a one should be rejected.
5.8.8
naṣṭaṃ mṛtamatikrāntaṃ nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ | ity āturasya hi yadāvadeddūto na so ' sti vai ||
When the messenger of a patient says, "The wise do not mourn / what is lost, dead, or passed away," that patient certainly is no more.
5.8.9
karaṃ kareṇa gṛhṇāti pāṇinā tāḍayetkaram | āturasya yadā dūtaḥ pratyākhyeyastathāvidhaḥ ||
When a messenger of the patient grasps one hand with the other / or strikes one hand with the other, such a one should be rejected.
5.8.10
khādedoṣṭhau ca jihvāṃ ca nakhān dantaiś ca kalpayet | āturasya yadā dūtaḥ pratyākhyeyastathāvidhaḥ ||
When a messenger of the patient bites his lips and tongue, / or trims his nails with his teeth, such a one should be rejected.
5.8.11
āturasya yadā gehevaidye vai paryupasthite | chidyate bhidyate caiva pratyākhyeyastathāvidhaḥ ||
When in the house of the patient, while the physician is present, / something is cut or broken, such [a patient] should be rejected.
5.8.12
parāvartya ghaṭaṃ pūrṇaṃ brāhmaṇaṃ paripṛcchati | āturasya yadā dūtaḥ pratyākhyeyastathāvidhaḥ ||
When a messenger of the patient, having turned upside down a full jar, / questions a brāhmaṇa, such a one should be rejected.
5.8.13
gṛdhraḥ sṛgālaḥ kākaś cāpy ulūko vāyasas tathā | nadeyurdakṣiṇe pārśve rogiṇo yasya nāsti saḥ ||
On whose right side a vulture, a jackal, a crow, / an owl, or a raven should cry out, that sick man is no more.
5.8.14
kaṣāyavastro muṇḍo vā jaṭilo vāthanagnakaḥ | carmabhir vā parivṛto, mahānasyeva śāṭikaḥ ||
One wearing ochre robes, shaven-headed, matted-haired, or naked, / or wrapped in hides, or clad in the garments of a cookhouse,
5.8.15
tailābhyaktaśchinnanāso vāgmī conmatta eva vā | bhagnauṣṭhaḥ kharavāṭo vā na dūtaḥ sampraśasyate ||
Smeared with oil, with a severed nose, talkative, or insane, / with a broken lip, or riding an ass—[such a] messenger is not commended.
5.8.16
iti dūtasamācāro vyādhitānāṃprakīrtitaḥ | ya evaṃ veda nipuṇaṃ siddhikāmaḥsa vai bhiṣak || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele indriye aṣṭamo ' dhyāyaḥ || || navamo ' dhyāyaḥ || athāto gomayacūrṇaṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ |
Thus the conduct of messengers of the sick has been proclaimed; / the physician desiring success who knows this accurately [succeeds].
Thus said the venerable Ātreya.
Thus ends the eighth chapter in the Section on Sensory Prognostics in the work of Bheḷa.
Chapter Nine.
Now we shall explain the cow-dung powder; thus said the venerable Ātreya.
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