The Compendium of Caraka 5.5: pañcamo 'adhyāyaḥ/
Carakasaṃhitā 5.5
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pañcamo 'adhyāyaḥ/
5.5.1
athātaḥ pūrvarūpīyamindriyaṃ vyākhyāsyāmaḥ//
Now we shall expound the chapter on prognostic signs relating to prodromes.
5.5.2
iti ha smāha bhagavānātreyaḥ//
Thus declared the revered Ātreya.
5.5.3
pūrvarūpāṇyasādhyānāṃ vikārāṇāṃ pṛthak pṛthak/
bhinnābhinnāni vakṣyāmo bhiṣajāṃ jñānavṛddhaye//
We shall explain individually the separated and combined prodromes
of incurable diseases, for the increase of knowledge among physicians.
5.5.4
pūrvarūpāṇi sarvāṇi jvaroktānyatimātrayā/
yaṃ viśanti viśatyenaṃ mṛtyurjvarapuraḥsaraḥ//
He whom all the prodromes stated for fever enter in extreme excess,
him death enters, preceded by fever.
5.5.5
anyasyāpi ca rogasya pūrvarūpāṇi yaṃ naram/
viśantyanena kalpena tasyāpi maraṇaṃ dhruvam//
And that man whom the prodromes of any other disease
enter in this manner—for him too death is certain.
5.5.6
pūrvarūpaikadeśāṃstu vakṣyāmo 'anyān sudāruṇān/
ye rohānanubadhvanti &mṛtyuryairanubadhyate//
We shall explain other extremely dreadful specific prodromes
that attend diseases, and by which death is brought on.
5.5.7
balaṃ ca hīyate yasya pratiśyāyaśca vardhate/
tasya nārīprasaktasya śoṣo 'antāyopajāyate//
He whose strength declines and whose coryza increases,
addicted to women, in him consumption arises leading to death.
5.5.8
śvabhiruṣṭraiḥ kharairvā 'api yāti yo dakṣiṇāṃ diśam/
svapne yakṣmāṇamāsādya jīvitaṃ sa vimuñcati//
He who in a dream goes to the southern quarter with dogs, camels, or donkeys,
contracts wasting and departs this life.
5.5.9
pretaiḥ saha pibenmadyaṃ svapne yaḥ kṛṣyate śunā/
sughoraṃ jvaramāsādya jīvitaṃ sa vimuñcati//
He who in a dream drinks liquor with ghosts or is dragged by a dog,
contracts a dreadful fever and departs this life.
5.5.10
lākṣāraktāmbarābhaṃ yaḥ paśyatyambaramantikāt/
sa raktapittamāsādya tenaivāntāya nīyate//
He who sees the sky nearby resembling lac or red cloth,
contracts bleeding disorder and is brought to his end by that very condition.
5.5.11
raktasragraktasarvāṅgo raktavāsā muhurhasan/
yaḥ svapne &hriyate nāryā sa raktaṃ prāpya sīdati//
He who, adorned with a red garland, his whole body red, wearing red garments, and laughing repeatedly,
is carried off by a woman in a dream, succumbs upon developing bleeding disorder.
5.5.12
śūlāṭopāntrakūjāśca daurbalyaṃ cātimātrayā/
nakhādiṣu ca vaivarṇyaṃ gulmenāntakaro grahaḥ//
Colic, flatulence with rumbling, intestinal noises, extreme weakness,
and discoloration of the nails and other parts: this seizure brings death by abdominal swelling.
5.5.13
latā kaṇṭakinī yasya dāruṇā hṛdi jāyate/
svapne gulmastamantāya krūro viśati mānavam//
A thorny, terrifying creeper that sprouts from one's heart in a dream—
such a man cruel abdominal swelling enters, bringing his end.
5.5.14
kāye 'alpamapi saṃspṛṣṭaṃ subhṛśaṃ yasya dīryate/
kṣatāni ca na rohanti kuṣṭhairmṛtyurhinasti tam//
He whose body tears severely upon even slight touch,
and whose wounds do not heal, death destroys him through skin diseases.
5.5.15
nagnasyājyāvasiktasya juhvato 'agnimanarciṣam/
padmānyurasi jāyante svapne kuṣṭhairmariṣyataḥ//
For one who will die of skin diseases, in a dream, naked, basted with ghee, and making offerings
into a fire without flame, lotuses sprout upon his chest.
5.5.16
snātānuliptagātre 'api yasmin gṛdhnanti makṣikāḥ/
sa prameheṇa saṃsparṇaṃ prāpya tenaiva hanyate//
The man on whom flies swarm, even when he is bathed and smeared with ungents,
contracts urinary disease and is destroyed by that very illness.
5.5.17
snehaṃ bahuvidhaṃ svapne caṇḍālaiḥ saha yaḥ pibet/
badhyate sa prameheṇa spṛśyate 'antāya mānavaḥ//
The man who in a dream drinks various types of unctuous substances with Caṇḍālas
is seized by urinary disease and afflicted to his end.
5.5.18
dhyānāyāsau tathodvegau mohaścāsthānasaṃbhavaḥ/
aratirbalahāniśca mṛtyurunmādapūrvakaḥ//
Brooding, exhaustion, agitation, confusion arising without cause,
restlessness, and loss of strength: death preceded by insanity.
5.5.19
āhāradveṣiṇaṃ paśyan luptacittamudarditam/
vidyāddhīro mumūrṣuṃ tamunmādenātipātinā//
Seeing one who hates food, whose mind is lost, and who is tormented by urticaria,
the steadfast physician should know him to be about to die of fulminant insanity.
5.5.20
krodhanaṃ trāsabahulaṃ sakṛtprahasitānanam/
mūrcchāpipāsābahulaṃ hantyunmādaḥ śarīriṇam//
Wrathful, full of dread, his face suddenly breaking into laughter,
plagued by fainting and thirst: insanity destroys the embodied soul.
5.5.21
nṛtyan rakṣogaṇaiḥ sākaṃ yaḥ svapne 'ambhasi &sīdati/
sa prāpya bhṛśamunmādaṃ yāti lokamataḥ param//
One who in a dream sinks into water while dancing together with hosts of rakṣases,
he, having contracted severe insanity, departs from this world to the next.
5.5.22
asattamaḥ paśyati yaḥ śṛṇotyapyasataḥ svanān/
bahūn bahuvidhān jāgrat so 'apasmāreṇa badhyate//
One who, while awake, sees profound darkness and hears many kinds of unreal sounds
is seized by epilepsy.
5.5.23
mattaṃ nṛtyantamāvidhya preto harati yaṃ naram/
svapne harati taṃ mṛtyurapasmārapuraḥsaraḥ//
A man whom an ancestral spirit seizes and carries off in a dream after whirling him around as he dances drunk—
death preceded by epilepsy carries him off.
5.5.24
stabhyete pratibuddhasya hanū manye tathā 'akṣiṇī/
yasya taṃ bahirāyāmo gṛhītvā hantyasaṃśayam//
The jaws, carotid vessels, and eyes of one who has awakened become rigid:
opisthotonos seizing him destroys him without doubt.
5.5.25
śaṣkulīrvā 'apyapūpān vā svapne khādati yo naraḥ/
sa &cettādṛk chardayati pratibuddho na jīvati//
A man who eats spirals of pastry or cakes in a dream,
if on waking he vomits such food, he does not survive.
5.5.26
etāni pūrvarūpāṇi yaḥ samyagavabudhyate/
sa eṣāmanubandhaṃ ca phalaṃ ca jñātumarhati//
He who properly understands these premonitory symptoms,
he is fit to know their consequence and their result.
5.5.27
imāṃścāpyaparān svapnān dāruṇānupalakṣayet/
vyādhitānāṃ vināśāya kleśāya mahate 'api vā//
And one should observe these other dreadful dreams,
which bring destruction or great suffering to the sick:
5.5.28
yasyottamāṅge jāyante vaṃśagulmalatādayaḥ/
vayāṃsi ca vilīyante svapne maiṇḍyamiyācca yaḥ//
Upon whose head bamboos, shrubs, creepers, and the like grow,
upon which birds settle, and he who goes bald in a dream;
5.5.29
gṛdhrolūkaśvakākādyaiḥ svapne yaḥ parivāryate/
rakṣaḥpretapiśācastrīcaṇḍāla-&draviḍāndhrakaiḥ//
Who is surrounded in a dream by vultures, owls, dogs, crows, and the like,
by rakṣases, ancestral spirits, piśācas, women, caṇḍālas, Dravidians, and Andhras;
5.5.30
vaṃśavetralatāpāśatṛṇakaṇṭakasaṅkaṭe/
&saṃsajjati hi yaḥ svapne yo &gacchan prapatatyapi//
Who indeed gets entangled in a dream in thickets of bamboos, canes, creepers, snares, grass, and thorns,
or who while walking falls down;
5.5.31
bhūmau pāṃśūpadhānāyāṃ valmīke vā 'atha bhasmani/
śmaśānāyatane śvabhre svapne yaḥ &prapatatyapi//
Who falls down in a dream onto ground covered with dust, onto an anthill, onto ashes,
into a cremation ground, or into a pit;
5.5.32
kaluṣe 'ambhasi paṅke vā kūpe vā tamasā++āvṛte/
svapne majjati śīghreṇa srotasā &hriyate ca yaḥ//
Who in a dream sinks into turbid water, mud, or a well enveloped in darkness,
and who is carried away by a swift current;
5.5.33
snehapānaṃ tathā 'abhyaṅgaḥ pracchardanavirecane/
hiraṇyalābhaḥ kalahaḥ svapne bandhaparājayau//
Drinking unctuous substances, anointing the body, emesis, and purgation;
gaining gold, quarreling, imprisonment, and defeat in a dream;
5.5.34
upānadyuganāśaśca prapātaḥ pādacarmaṇoḥ/
harṣaḥ svapne prakupitaiḥ pitṛbhiścāvabhartsanam//
The loss of a pair of shoes, slipping of the skin of the feet,
joy, and rebuke by enraged ancestors in a dream;
5.5.35
danta-&candrārkanakṣatradevatādīpacakṣuṣām/
patanaṃ vā vināśo vā svapne bhedo nagasya vā//
The falling or destruction of teeth, moon, sun, constellations, deities, lamps, or eyes,
or the split of a mountain in a dream;
5.5.36
raktapuṣpaṃ vanaṃ bhūmiṃ pāpakarmālayaṃ citām/
guhāndhakārasaṃbādhaṃ svapne yaḥ praviśatyapi//
A forest of red flowers, a site of wicked deeds, a funeral pyre,
a cave dense with darkness: he who enters these in a dream;
5.5.37
raktamālī hasannuccairdigvāsā dakṣiṇāṃ diśam/
dāruṇāmaṭavīṃ svapne kapiyuktena yāti vā//
Wearing a garland of red flowers, laughing loudly, naked, toward the southern quarter,
or travelling in a dream through a dreadful wilderness on a monkey-drawn cart;
5.5.38
kāṣāyiṇāmasaumyānāṃ nagnānāṃ daṇḍadhāriṇām/
kṛṣṇānāṃ raktanetrāṇāṃ svapne necchanti daraśanam//
They do not wish for the sighting in a dream of persons wearing ochre robes, unkindly,
naked, holding staffs, black, and having red eyes.
5.5.39
kṛṣṇā &pāpā nirācārā dīrghakeśanakhastanī/
virāgamālyavasanā svapne kālaniśā matā//
Black, sinful, devoid of conduct, with long hair, nails, and breasts,
wearing discolored garlands and garments, she is considered the Night of Time in a dream.
5.5.40
ityete dāruṇāḥ svapnā rohī yairyāti pañcatām/
arogaḥ saṃśayaṃ gatvā kaścideva pramucyate//
These are the dreadful dreams by which a sick man goes to the five elements;
a healthy man, having entered into danger, is only rarely delivered.
5.5.41
manovahānāṃ pūrṇatvāddoṣauratibalaistribhiḥ/
srotasāṃ dāruṇān svapnān kāle paśyati dāruṇe//
Because of the clogging of the mind-carrying channels by the three excessively aggravated doṣas,
he sees dreadful dreams at a dreadful time.
5.5.42
nātiprasuptaḥ puruṣaḥ saphalānaphalāṃstathā/
indriyeśena manasā svapnān paśyatyanekadhā//
A man not deeply asleep sees many kinds of dreams,
both fruitful and fruitless, by means of the mind, the ruler of the sense faculties.
5.5.43
dṛṣṭaṃ śrutānubhūtaṃ ca prārthitaṃ kalpitaṃ tathā/
bhāvikaṃ doṣajaṃ caiva svapnaṃ saptavidhaṃ viduḥ//
Seen, heard, experienced, desired, imagined,
prophetic, and born of the doṣas: dreams are known to be of seven kinds.
5.5.44
tatra pañcavidhaṃ pūrvamaphalaṃ bhiṣagādiśet/
divāsvapnamatihrasvamatidīrghaṃ &ca buddhimān//
Among these, the intelligent physician should declare the first five kinds to be fruitless,
as well as a daytime dream, one that is very short, and one that is very long.
5.5.45
dṛṣṭaḥ prathamarātre yaḥ svapnaḥ so+&alpaphalo bhavet/
na svapedyaṃ punardṛṣṭvā sa sadyaḥ syānmahāphalaḥ//
A dream seen in the first watch of the night would have little result;
that after seeing which one does not sleep again would soon have great result.
5.5.46
akalyāṇamapi svapnaṃ dṛṣṭvā tatraiva yaḥ punaḥ/
paśyet saumyaṃ śubhākāraṃ tasya vidyācchubhaṃ phalam//
Even having seen an inauspicious dream, if right then he again
sees a gentle, auspicious form, one should know its result to be auspicious.
5.5.47
tatra ślokaḥ---
Here is a verse:
5.5.47_1
pūrvarūpāṇyatha svapnān ya imān vetti dāruṇān/
na sa mohādasādhyeṣu karmāṇyārabhate bhiṣak//
The physician who understands these dreadful premonitory symptoms and dreams
does not, out of delusion, undertake treatments in incurable cases.
5.5.47_2
ityagniveśakṛte tantre carakapratisaṃskṛte indriyasthāne pūrvarūpīyamindriyaṃ nāma pañcamo 'adhyāyaḥ//5//
Thus, in the treatise composed by Agniveśa, redacted by Caraka, in the Indriyasthāna, the fifth chapter entitled 'The Indriya Concerning Premonitory Symptoms'.
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- Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit
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