The Compendium of Caraka 1.29.7

1.29.7

bhagavānuvāca ya ime kulīnāḥ paryavadātaśrutāḥ paridṛṣṭakarmāṇo dakṣāḥ śucayo jitahastā jitātmānaḥ sarvopakaraṇavantaḥ sarvendriyopapannāḥ prakṛtijñāḥ pratipattijñāśca te jñeyāḥ prāṇānāmabhisarā hantāro rogāṇāṃ tathāvidhā hi kelave śarīrajñāne śarīrābhinirvṛttijñāne prakṛtivikārajñāne ca niḥsaṃśayāḥ sukhasādhyakṛcchrasādhyayāpyapratyākhyeyānāṃ ca rogāṇāṃ samutthānapūrvarūpaliṅgavedanopaśayaviśeṣajñāne vyapagatasaṃdehāḥ, trividhasyāyurvedasūtrasya sasaṃgrahavyākaraṇasya satrividhauṣadhagrāmasya pravaktāraḥ pañcatriṃśato mūlaphalānāṃ caturṇāṃ ca snehānāṃ pañcānāṃ ca lavaṇānāmaṣṭānāṃ ca mūtrāṇāmaṣṭāṇāṃ ca kṣīrāṇāṃ kṣīratvagvṛkṣāṇāṃ ca ṣaṇṇāṃ śirovirecanādeśca pañcakarmāśrayasyauṣadhagaṇasyāṣṭāviṃśateśca yavāgūnāṃ dvātriṃśataścūrṇapradehānāṃ ṣaṇṇāṃ ca virecanaśatānāṃ pañcānāṃ ca kaṣāyaśatānāṃ prayoktāraḥ, svasthavṛttavihitabhojanapānaniyamasthānacaṅkramaṇaśayanāsanamātrādravyāñjanadhūmanāvanābhyañjanaparimārjanavegāvidhāraṇavidhāraṇavyāyāmasātmyendriyaparīkṣopakramaṇasadvṛttakuśalāḥ catuṣpādopagṛhīte ca bheṣaje ṣoḍaśakale saviniścaye satriparyeṣaṇe savātakalākalajñāne vyapagatasandehāḥ caturvidhasya ca snehasya caturviṃśatyupanayasyopakalpanīyasya catuḥṣaṣṭiparyantasya ca vyavasthāpayitāraḥ, bahuvidhavidhānayuktānāṃ ca snehyasvedyavamyavirecyavividhauṣadhopacārāṇāṃ ca kuśalāḥ śirorogāderdoṣāṃśavikalpajasya ca vyādhisaṃgrahasya sakṣayapiḍakāvidradhestrayāṇāṃ ca śophānāṃ bahuvidhaśophānubandhānāmaṣṭacatvāriṃśataśca rogādhikaraṇānāṃ catvāriṃśaduttarasya ca nānātmajasya vyādhiśatasta tathā vigarhitātisthūlātikṛśānāṃ sahetulakṣaṇopakramāṇāṃ svapnasya ca hitāhitasyāsvapnātisvapnasya ca sahetūpakramasya ṣaṇṇāṃ ca laṅghanādīnāmupakramāṇāṃ saṃtarpaṇāpatarpaṇajānāṃ ca rogāṇāṃ sarūpapraśamanānāṃ śoṇitajānāṃ ca vyādhīnāṃ madamūrcchāyasaṃnyāsānāṃ ca sakāraṇarūpauṣadhopacārāṇāṃ kuśalāḥ kuśalāścāhāravidhiviniścayasya prakṛtya hitāhitānāmāhāravikārāṇāmagryasaṃgrahasyāsavānāṃ ca caturaśīterdravyaguṇakarmaviniścayasya rasānurasasaṃśrayasya savikalpavairodhikasya dvādaśavargāśrayasya cānnapānasya saguṇaprabhāvasya sānupānaguṇasya navavidhasyārthasaṃgrahasyāhāragateśca hitāhitopayogaviśeṣātmakasya ca śubhāśubhaviśeṣasya dhātvāśrayāṇāṃ ca rogāṇāṃ sauṣadhasaṃgrahāṇāṃ daśānāṃ ca prāṇāyatanānāṃ yaṃ ca vakṣyāmyarthedaśamahāmūlīye triṃśattamādhyāye, tatra ca kṛtsnasya tantroddeśalakṣṇasya tantrasya ca grahaṇadhāraṇavijñānaprayogakarmakāryakālakartṛkaraṇakuśalāḥ kuśalāśca smṛtimatiśāstrayuktijñānasyātmanaḥ śīlaguṇairavisaṃvādanena ca saṃpādanena sarvaprāṇiṣu cetaso maitrasya mātāpitṛbhrātṛbandhuvat evaṃyuktā bavantyagniveśa prāṇānāmabhisarā hantāro rogāṇāmiti //

The venerable [Ātreya] said: Those who are of noble birth, thoroughly versed in scripture, experienced in practical work, skilled, pure, deft-handed, self-controlled, equipped with all appliances, possessed of all sense faculties, knowledgeable of normal constitution and knowledgeable of proper action—they are to be recognized as promoters of vital breath and destroyers of diseases. For such [physicians] are free from doubt regarding the comprehensive knowledge of the body, knowledge of the body's development, and knowledge of the normal constitution and its disorders; free from doubt regarding the knowledge of the specific etiology, premonitory symptoms, signs, sensations, and therapeutic suitability of easily curable, difficult to cure, palliatable, and incurable diseases; expositors of the three-limbed aphorisms of Āyurveda along with their compendium and explanation and with the threefold group of drugs; administrators of the thirty-five roots and fruits, the four fats, the five salts, the eight urines, the eight milks, the six milky-sap and bark trees, the drug-collection serving the five procedures beginning with errhine therapy, the twenty-eight gruels, the thirty-two powders and pastes, the six hundred purgatives, and the five hundred decoctions; skilled in the proper conduct for health regarding the rules of food and drink, standing, walking, lying down, sitting, dosage, substances, collyrium, smoke, errhines, anointing, massage, non-suppression and suppression of natural urges, exercise, suitability, examination of the sense organs, treatments, and virtuous conduct; free from doubt regarding medicine comprised of the four limbs, endowed with sixteen qualities, with its definite conclusions, with the three quests, and with the knowledge of normal and abnormal wind; determiners of the four kinds of fats, their twenty-four modes of preparation, their required equipment, up to sixty-four combinations; skilled in the treatment with various drugs administered in multiple ways, for those needing oleation, sudation, emesis, and purgation; skilled in the compendium of diseases starting with diseases of the head arising from various permutations of the doṣas, along with phthisis, boils, and abscesses, the three swellings with their various complications, the forty-eight seats of disease, the one hundred and forty diseases born of a single dosha; skilled also in the etiology, signs, and treatment of the despised excessively obese and excessively emaciated, beneficial and unbeneficial sleep along with the causes and treatment of sleeplessness and excessive sleep, the six therapeutic measures beginning with lightening therapy, the diseases born of over-nourishment and under-nourishment along with their symptoms and pacifications, blood-born diseases, and intoxication, fainting, and coma along with their causes, symptoms, and medical treatment; skilled in the determination of dietary regimen, food transformations naturally wholesome and unwholesome, the compendium of the foremost items, the eighty-four fermented drinks, the determination of substance, quality, and action based on primary and secondary tastes, wholesome and unwholesome combinations, food and drink based on the twelve groups along with their qualities and specific potencies, the qualities of post-drink accompaniments, the ninefold collection of purposes, the transit of food, the auspicious and inauspicious consequences consisting of beneficial and unbeneficial utilization, diseases based in bodily tissues along with their medicinal collections, and the ten seats of vital breath; and regarding what I shall state in the thirtieth chapter entitled 'Arthedaśamahāmūlīya', skilled there in grasping, retaining, understanding, and applying the entire compendium along with its brief and detailed exposition, and in action, object, time, agent, and instruments; and skilled in memory, intellect, understanding of scripture and reasoning, by being consistent with one's own virtuous conduct and qualities, and by cultivating a friendly mind toward all living beings like a father, mother, brother, or kinsman—endowed with such [qualities], Agniveśa, are the promoters of vital breath and destroyers of diseases.