[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 Caraka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka) › 5.2 # The Compendium of Caraka 5.2: dvitīyo 'adhyāyaḥ/ Carakasaṃhitā 5.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### dvitīyo 'adhyāyaḥ/ ### [5.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.1) athātaḥ puṣpitakamindriyaṃ vyākhyāsyāmaḥ// > Now we shall explain the section on signs \[of death\] entitled The Flowered One. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.2) iti ha smāha bhagavānātreyaḥ// > Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.3) puṣpaṃ yathā pūrvarūpaṃ phalasyeha bhaviṣyataḥ/ tathā liṅgamariṣṭākhyaṃ pūrvarūpaṃ mariṣyataḥ// > Just as the flower is the precursor of the fruit that is to come in this world, / so the sign named ariṣṭa is the precursor of one who is about to die. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.4) apyevaṃ tu bhavet puṣpaṃ phalenānanubandhi yat/ phalaṃ cāpi bhavet kiñcidyasya puṣpaṃ na &pūrvajam// > There may indeed be a flower that is not followed by fruit, / and there may also be some fruit whose preceding flower did not exist; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.5) na tvariṣṭasya jātasya nāśo 'asti maraṇādṛte/ maraṇaṃ cāpi tannāsti yannāriṣṭapuraḥsaram// > but once an ariṣṭa has arisen, there is no destruction of it apart from death; / and there is no death that is not preceded by an ariṣṭa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.6) mithyādṛṣṭamariṣṭābhamanariṣṭamajānatā/ ariṣṭaṃ vā 'apyasaṃbuddhametat prajñāparādhajam// > If a non-ariṣṭa is wrongly seen as resembling an ariṣṭa by an ignorant person, / or if an ariṣṭa is unrecognized, this arises from an error of judgment. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.7) jñānasaṃbodhanārthaṃ tu liṅgairmaraṇapūrvajaiḥ/ puṣpitānupadekṣyāmo narān &bahuvidhairbahūn/ nānāpuṣpopamo gandho yasya &bhāti divāniśam/ puṣpitasya vanasyeva nānādrumalatāvataḥ// > For the sake of awakening knowledge by means of signs preceding death, / we shall teach concerning many 'flowered' men of various sorts: / He whose smell day and night resembles various flowers, / like a flowering forest possessing various trees and creepers, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.9) tamāhuḥ puṣpitaṃ dhīrā naraṃ maraṇalakṣaṇaiḥ/ sa &nā saṃvatsarāddehaṃ jahātīti viniścayaḥ// > the wise call that man 'flowered' by the signs of death; / that man abandons his body within a year: this is certain. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.10) evamekaikaśaḥ puṣpairyasya gandhaḥ samo bhavet/ iṣṭairvā yadi vā 'aniṣṭaiḥ sa ca puṣpita ucyate// > Likewise, he whose smell is equal to flowers taken one by one, / whether pleasant or unpleasant, he too is called 'flowered'. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.11) samāsenāśubhān gandhānekatvenāthavā punaḥ/ ājighredyasya gātreṣu taṃ vidyāt puṣpitaṃ bhiṣak// > If the physician smells in his limbs unpleasant odors in combination, / or else singly, he should know him to be 'flowered'. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.12) āpulutānāplute kāye yasya gandhāḥ śubhāśubhāḥ/ vyatyāsenānimittāḥ syuḥ sa ca puṣpita ucyate// > He on whose bathed or unbathed body pleasant or unpleasant odors / occur in reverse without a cause is also called 'flowered'. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.13) tadyathā-candanaṃ kuṣṭhaṃ tagarāguruṇī madhu/ mālyaṃ mūtrapurīṣe ca &mṛtāni kuṇapāni ca// > Namely: sandalwood, kuṣṭha, tagara, aguru, honey, / a garland, and urine, feces, and dead carcasses; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.14) ye cānye vividhātmāno gandhā vividhayonayaḥ/ te 'apyanenānumānena vijñeyā vikṛtiṃ gatāḥ// > and whatever other various kinds of smells of diverse origins there may be, / they too are to be known through this inference when they have undergone an unnatural change. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.15) idaṃ cāpyatideśārthaṃ lakṣaṇaṃ gandhasaṃśrayam/ vakṣyāmo yadabhijñāya bhiṣaṅnaraṇamādiśet// > And we shall also state this sign relating to smell for the sake of extended application, / recognizing which the physician may predict death: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.16) &viyonirviduro gandho yasya gātreṣu jāyate/ iṣṭo vā yadi vā 'aniṣṭo na sa jīvati tāṃ samām// > He in whose limbs there arises a remote smell of an unnatural origin, / whether agreeable or disagreeable, does not live for that year. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.17) etāvadgandhavijñānaṃ,rasajñānamataḥ param/ āturāṇaṃ śarīreṣu vakṣyate vidhipūrvakam// > So much for the knowledge of smell; after this, the knowledge of taste / on the bodies of the sick will be stated according to rule. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.18) yo rasaḥ prakṛtisthānāṃ narāṇāṃ dehasaṃbhavaḥ/ sa eṣāṃ carame kāle vikāraṃ bhajate dvayam// > That taste arising from the body in men in their natural state / undergoes a twofold unnatural change at their final hour: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.19) kaścidevāsyavairasyamatyarthamupapadyate/ svādutvamaparaścāpi vipulaṃ bhajate rasaḥ// > In some, an excessive distastefulness of the mouth comes about, / while in another the taste attains excessive sweetness. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.20) tamanenānumānena vidyādvikṛtimāgatam/ manuṣyo hi manuṣyasya kathaṃ rasamavāpnuyāt// > One should know through this inference that it has undergone an unnatural change; / for how could a human being obtain the taste of another human being? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.21) makṣikāścaiva yūkāśca maśakaiḥ saha/ virasādapasarpanti jantoḥ kāyānmumūrṣataḥ// > Flies and lice, along with mosquitoes, / move away from the body of a dying creature because of its bad taste. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.22) atyartharasikaṃ kāyaṃ kālapakvasya makṣikāḥ/ api snātānuliptasya bhṛśamāyānti sarvaśaḥ// > Flies come intensely from all sides to the excessively tasty body / of one whose time is ripe, even if he has bathed and applied anointment. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.23) tatra ślokaḥ--- > Here is the summary verse: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.23\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.23_1) sāmānyena mayoktāni liṅgāni rasagandhayīḥ/ puṣpitasya narasyaitatphalaṃ maraṇamādiśet// > The signs of taste and smell have been stated in general by me; / for a 'flowered' man, one should predict this fruit: death. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.2.23\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2.23_2) ityagniveśakṛte tantre carakapratisaṃskṛte indriyasthāne puṣpitakamindriyaṃ nāma dvitīyo 'adhyāyaḥ//2// > Thus ends the second chapter, named The Flowered One, in the Section on Signs of Death, in the treatise composed by Agniveśa and redacted by Caraka. //2 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.2.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Adbhutasāgara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.samhita.adbhuta.adbhutasagara.48.232) — Ballālasena & Lakṣmaṇasena, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.2) · Pramāṇa