[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) › 5.8 # The Compendium of Bheḷa 5.8 Bheḷasaṃhitā 5.8 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.8.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.8.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.8.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.8.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.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, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.8.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.8.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela~en-mt.5.8.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.8) · Pramāṇa