[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) › 5.5 # The Compendium of Caraka 5.5: pañcamo 'adhyāyaḥ/ Carakasaṃhitā 5.5 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### pañcamo 'adhyāyaḥ/ ### [5.5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.5.1) athātaḥ pūrvarūpīyamindriyaṃ vyākhyāsyāmaḥ// > Now we shall expound the chapter on prognostic signs relating to prodromes. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.5.2) iti ha smāha bhagavānātreyaḥ// > Thus declared the revered Ātreya. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.5.18) dhyānāyāsau tathodvegau mohaścāsthānasaṃbhavaḥ/ aratirbalahāniśca mṛtyurunmādapūrvakaḥ// > Brooding, exhaustion, agitation, confusion arising without cause, > restlessness, and loss of strength: death preceded by insanity. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.5.47) tatra ślokaḥ--- > Here is a verse: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.47\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.5.47\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.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'. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.5.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - 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