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# The Compendium of Bheḷa 6.8

Bheḷasaṃhitā 6.8

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.1)

pañconmādās samākhyātā nidāneṣu savistarāḥ | saliṅgāssasamucthānāḥ śṛṇu teṣāṃ cikitsitam ||

> The five insanities have been declared in detail in the \[Section on\] Pathology, / along with their symptoms and origins; listen to their treatment.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.2)

cittabuddhīnriyāṇāṃ hi teṣām api viceṣṭitam | śirastālvantaragataṃ sarvendriyaparaṃ manaḥ ||

> Indeed, of mind, intellect, and senses too is their disordered activity. / The mind, situated between the head and palate, is superior to all the senses.  
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### [6.8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.3)

tatrasthaṃ taddhi viṣayānindriyāṇāṃ rasādikān | samīpasthān vijānāti trīn bhāvāṃś ca niyacchati ||

> Abiding there, it indeed knows the nearby objects of the senses—taste and the rest— / and governs the three states.  
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### [6.8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.4)

sumanaḥprabhavaṃ cāpi sarvendriyamayaṃ balam | kāraṇaṃ sarvabuddhīnāṃ cittaṃ hṛdayasaṃśritam ||

> And the strength originating from a wholesome mind consists of all the senses. / The mind, located in the heart, is the cause of all cognitions.  
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### [6.8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.5)

kriyāṇāṃ cetarāsāṃ ca cittaṃ sarvatra kāraṇam | sucittāssatpathaṃ yānti duścittās tu vimārgagāḥ ||

> And the mind is everywhere the cause of other actions. / Those of good mind take the right path, but those of wicked mind go astray.  
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### [6.8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.6)

viditaṃ manasā cittamālabhya prabhavet tataḥ | tato buddhiḥ prabhavati kāryākāryavicārikā ||

> The mind having apprehended what is perceived by the mind, \[action\] arises therefrom. / Therefrom arises the intellect, which deliberates upon what should and should not be done.  
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### [6.8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.7)

śubhāśubhaṃ hi kurvāṇā bodhanaṃ buddhiriṣyate | bodhanāc cāpi bodhyasya naro budha ihocyate ||

> The intellect is held to bring about awareness of good and bad; / and because of awareness of what is to be understood, a person is here called wise.  
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### [6.8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.8)

sā buddhiḥ paramātmā ca sa śarīre prakīrtitaḥ | yathā kṛtī karmakaraḥ kriyāṃ yojayate nṛṣu ||

> That intellect is the supreme self, and it is proclaimed within the body / just as a skillful laborer directs action among men.  
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### [6.8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.9)

manasaścittabuddhīnāṃ sthānāny etāni karma ca | sandūṣitānāṃ teṣāṃ tu śṛṇu hetumataḥ param ||

> These are the locations and function of the mind, thought, and intellect. / Now, listen next to the cause of their becoming corrupted.  
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### [6.8.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.10)

ūrdhvaṃ prakupitā doṣāḥ śirastālvantare sthitāḥ | manaḥ sandūṣayanty āśu tataścittaṃ vipadyate ||

> The humors, provoked upwards and situated between the head and palate, / quickly corrupt the mind; thereupon thought is ruined.  
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### [6.8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.11)

citte vyāpadamāpanne buddhirnāśaṃ niyacchati | tatas tu buddhivyāpattau kāryākāryaṃ na budhyate ||

> When thought has suffered ruin, the intellect undergoes destruction. / Then, upon the destruction of the intellect, one does not understand what should and should not be done.  
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### [6.8.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.12)

evaṃ pravartate vyādhirunmādo nāma dāruṇaḥ | tasmād viśeṣaṃ vakṣyāmi hyunmādamadayor api ||

> Thus arises the dreadful disease named insanity. / Therefore I shall declare the distinction between insanity and intoxication.  
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### [6.8.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.13)

śokātkopāttathā harṣād dravyāṇāṃ ca vināśanāt | calite cittamanasi madamāśu niyacchati ||

> From grief, from anger, likewise from joy, and from the loss of possessions, / when thought and mind are agitated, one quickly incurs intoxication.  
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### [6.8.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.14)

pradhyāyati prasvipiti roditīhānimittataḥ | hasatyakasmānnidrāluralpavāṅ nityam utsukaḥ ||

> He broods, sleeps excessively, weeps here without cause, / laughs unexpectedly, is drowsy, speaks little, and is always restless.  
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### [6.8.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.15)

trastaḥ śarīrī krodhano nirapatrapaḥ | purastādavalokī ca na yathāvṛtta eva ca ||

> Terrified, bodily pained, prone to anger, shameless, / staring straight ahead, and no longer acting properly,  
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### [6.8.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.16)

paruṣatvaṃ tathālomnāmāvilaṃ cakṣuṣorapi | etāni yasya rūpāṇi sa mado nāma kīrtitaḥ ||

> as well as roughness of the body hair and cloudiness of the eyes— / the one in whom these are the symptoms is called intoxicated.  
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### [6.8.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.17)

vivardhamānas tu mada unmādatvaṃ niyacchati | savātikāni rūpāṇi śleṣmapittodbhavāni ca ||

> When growing worse, however, intoxication turns into insanity. / The symptoms born of wind, phlegm, and bile,  
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### [6.8.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.18)

unmādastūcyate dhīraiḥ sannipātātmakāni ca | etallakṣaṇamuddiṣṭamunmādasya niruktitaḥ ||

> as well as those consisting of a combination of humors, are called insanity by the wise. / This characteristic of insanity has been designated according to definition.  
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### [6.8.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.19)

nidāne pūrvamuddiṣṭaṃ śṛṇu teṣāṃ cikitsitam | snehitaṃ sveditaṃ caiva yojayetpañcakrmaṇā ||

> As previously indicated in the \[Section on\] Pathology, hear their treatment: / Having unctuated and fomented \[him\], one should treat him with the fivefold therapy.  
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### [6.8.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.20)

dādhikaṃ vā pibetsarpistailaṃ śairīṣam eva vā | śatapākaṃ balātailaṃ mahāpaiśācikaṃ ghṛtam ||

> Or he should drink curd-ghee, or siris oil, / hundred-times-cooked balā oil, or Mahāpaiśācika ghee.  
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### [6.8.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.21)

dādhikaṃ camahākṣāramunmattaḥ śīlayet tathā | yac cikitsitam ākhyātam apasmāravināśanam ||

> And the insane person should likewise partake of curd-ghee and Mahākṣāra. / Whatever treatment has been declared to destroy epilepsy,  
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### [6.8.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.22)

tad eva sarvaṃnikhileṣūnmādeṣv avacārayet | ghātayet taṃkaśābhiś cavadhnīyāt tāḍayet tathā ||

> all that one should administer in all types of insanity. / He should have him flogged with whips, and should bind and beat him.  
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### [6.8.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.23)

gajenāpyathavāśvena trāsayetpannagena vā | punastṛṇāgninā vāpi sarvatassamavākiret ||

> Or he should terrify him with an elephant, or with a horse, or with a serpent; / or again, one should scatter grass-fire around him on all sides;  
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### [6.8.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.24)

avakīryāthavāṅgāraiḥ pradīptaiḥ pāribhadrakaiḥ | prayuktaṃ śītalenaiva jalenābhyukṣayetpunaḥ ||

> or having strewn him with blazing embers of coral-tree wood, / one should sprinkle the afflicted one again with cold water.  
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### [6.8.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.25)

prasārayed vā sariti saraṇe vā nirodhayet | bubhukṣayā śoṣayed vākūpe prakṣipya mānavaḥ ||

> Or one should cast him into a river, or confine him in a water-channel, / or the man should waste him with hunger having thrown him into a dry well.  
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### [6.8.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.26)

apūrvābhīṣayeyustaṃ puruṣāḥ śastrapāṇayaḥ | vitrāsayeyurvaidyāstaṃ trāsanais tu pṛthagvidhaiḥ ||

> Unknown men with weapons in hand should terrify him; / and physicians should frighten him with terrors of various kinds.  
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### [6.8.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.27)

trāsāstīvrā hi kurvanti cittasya vikṛtiṃ bhayāt | bhayam eva tu cittasyamānavānarthamucyate ||

> For sharp shocks produce a change of mind through fear; / indeed, only fear is called the undoing of a person's mind.  
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### [6.8.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.28)

prakṣiptacitto vicaret trāsyamāno ' pi śastrataḥ | kumārabṛndānugatastamasādhyaṃ vinirdiśet ||

> If with ruined mind he wanders about, even when terrified by weapons, / followed by a crowd of children, one should declare him incurable.  
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### [6.8.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.29)

tāpanāñjananasyaiś ca kṣāraiḥ kṣārāgadair api | proktairapasmāraharair unmādaṃ samupācaret ||

> And with warm collyria, errhines, alkalis, and alkali-antidotes / declared to remove epilepsy, one should treat insanity.  
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### [6.8.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.30)

purāṇaṃ pāyayeccainaṃ sarpirunmādanāśanam | sthitaṃ varṣaśataṃ śreṣṭhaṃ kumbhasarpistaducyate ||

> And one should have him drink aged ghee that destroys insanity; / that which has stood for a hundred years is best, and is called vessel-ghee.  
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### [6.8.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.31)

pānābhyañjananasyeṣuhitamunmādināṃsadā | kāñjikaṃ laśunaṃ caiva bastamūtreṇa peṣavet ||

> In drinks, inunctions, and errhines, it is always beneficial for the insane. / Fermented gruel and garlic one should grind with goat's urine;  
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### [6.8.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.32)

unmādināṃ prayogo ' yaṃ purāṇaghṛtasaṃyutaḥ | etāḥ kriyāḥ prayuñjīta vaidyaḥ kāyacikitsakaḥ ||

> this recipe, combined with aged ghee, is for the insane. / The internal medicine physician should employ these procedures;  
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### [6.8.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.6.8.33)

śāntikarmāṇi homāṃś ca kuryād bhūtacikitsakaḥ | iṣṭayaḥ śāntikarmaṇi homāḥ svastyayanāni ca | vedoktāḥ karmavidhayaḥ kāryāśconmādanāśanāḥ || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele cikitsite aṣṭamo ' dhyāyaḥ || || navamo ' dhyāyaḥ || athāto ' pasmāracikitsitaṃ vyākhyāsyāma iti ha smāha bhagavān ātreyaḥ |

> the demon-physician should perform pacification rites and fire-oblations. / Sacrifices, pacification rites, oblations, and auspicious recitations, / ritual procedures declared in the Vedas, should be performed to destroy insanity. / Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the eighth chapter in the therapeutics of Bheḷa. / Ninth chapter. / Now we shall explain the treatment of epilepsy; thus spoke the venerable Ātreya.  
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## Translations (1)

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