[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) › 5.9 # The Compendium of Caraka 5.9: navamo 'adhyāyaḥ/ Carakasaṃhitā 5.9 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### navamo 'adhyāyaḥ/ ### [5.9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.1) athāto &yasyaśyāvanimittīyamindriyaṃ vyākhyāsyāmaḥ// > Now we shall explain the indriya entitled "Signs of Grayishness." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.2) iti ha smāha bhagavānātreyaḥ// > Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.3) yasya śyāve paridhvaste harite cāpi darśane/ āpanno vyādhirantāya jñeyastasya vijānatā// > Whose eyes have become grayish, lustreless, or greenish: > his disease has turned fatal, so the discerning \[physician\] should know. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.4) niḥsaṃjñaḥ pariśuṣkāsyaḥ &samṛddho vyādhibhiśca yaḥ/ uparuddhāyuṣaṃ jñātvā taṃ dhīraḥ parivarjayet// > Unconscious, with dried-up mouth, and beset by diseases: > knowing his lifespan to be cut short, the wise \[physician\] should avoid him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.5) &haritāśca sirā yasya lomakūpāśca saṃvṛtāḥ/ so 'amlābhilāṣī puruṣaḥ pittānmaraṇamaśnute// > Whose veins are greenish and hair follicles closed: > that person, craving sour things, meets death from pitta. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.6) śarīrāntāśca śobhante śarīraṃ copaśuṣyati/ balaṃ ca hīyate yasya rājayakṣmā hinasti tam// > Whose bodily extremities appear handsome while his body withers > and his strength declines: pulmonary consumption destroys him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.7) aṃsābhitāpo hikkā ca chardanaṃ śoṇitasya ca/ ānāhaḥ pārśvaśūlaṃ ca bhavatyantāya śoṣiṇaḥ// > Burning heat in the shoulders, hiccup, vomiting of blood, > abdominal distension, and flank pain lead to death for a consumptive. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.8) vātavyādhirapasmārī kuṣṭhī &śophī tathodarī/ gulmī ca madhumehī ca rājayakṣmī ca yo naraḥ// > A man who has wind disease, epilepsy, leprosy, swelling, or abdominal enlargement, > abdominal lump, madhumeha, or pulmonary consumption— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.9) acikitsyā bhavantyete balamāṃsakṣaye sati/ anyeṣvapi vikāreṣu tān bhiṣak parivarjayet// > these become incurable when loss of strength and flesh occurs; > in other disorders too, the physician should avoid them. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.10) virecanahṛtānāho yastṛṣṇānugato naraḥ/ viriktaḥ punarādhmāti yathā pretastathaiva saḥ// > A man whose abdominal distension was removed by purgation, who is attended by thirst, > and who becomes distended again after being purged, is just like a corpse. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.11) peyaṃ pātuṃ na śaknoti kaṇṭhasya ca mukhasya ca/ urasaśca niśuṣkatvādyo naro na sa &jīvati// > A man who cannot drink a beverage because of dryness > of the throat, mouth, and chest: he does not live. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.12) svarasya durbalībhāvaṃ hāniṃ ca balavarṇayoḥ/ rogavṛddhimayuktyā ca dṛṣṭvā maraṇamādiśet// > Observing weakness of voice, loss of strength and complexion, > and an improper increase of disease, one should predict death. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.13) ūrdhvaśvāsaṃ gatoṣmāṇaṃ śūlopahatavaṅkṣaṇam/ śarma cānadhigacchantaṃ buddhimān parivarjayet// > Having upward respiration, departed body heat, groins stricken with pain, > and finding no comfort: the intelligent \[physician\] should avoid him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.14) apasvaraṃ bhāpamāṇaṃ prāptaṃ maraṇamātmanaḥ/ śrotāraṃ cāpyaśabdasya dūrataḥ parivarjayet// > Speaking in a discordant tone, approaching his own death, > and hearing sounds where there are none: one should avoid him from afar. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.15) yaṃ naraṃ sahasā rogo durbalaṃ parimuñcati/ saṃśayaprāptamātreyo jīvitaṃ tasya manyate// > A weak man whom disease suddenly abandons: > Ātreya considers his life to have fallen into doubt. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.16) atha cejjñātayastasya yāceran praṇipātataḥ/ rasenādyāditi brūyānnāsmai dadyādviśodhanam// > And if his kinsmen should plead with prostrations, > he should say, "Let him eat with broth"; he should not give him evacuation therapy. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.17) māsena cenna dṛśyeta viśeṣastasya śobhanaḥ/ rasaiścānyaibahuvidhairdurlabhaṃ tasya jīvitam// > If no auspicious improvement is seen in him within a month, > even with various kinds of broths, his survival is difficult to obtain. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.18) niṣṭhyūtaṃ ca purīṣaṃ ca retaścāmbhasi majjati/ yasya tasyāyuṣaḥ prāptamantamāhurmanīṣiṇaḥ// > Whose sputum, stool, and semen sink in water: > the wise say the end of his lifespan has arrived. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.19) niṣṭyūte yasya dṛśyante varṇā bahuvidhāḥ pṛthak/ tacca sīdatyapaḥ prāpya na sa &jīvitumarhati// > In whose sputum various separate colors are seen, > and which sinks on reaching water: he cannot live. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.20) pittamūṣmānugaṃ yasya śaṅgau prāpya &vimūrcchati/ sa rogaḥ śaṅkhako nāmnā trirātrāddhanti jīvitam// > In whom pitta accompanied by body heat reaches the temples and faints: > that disease, called śaṅkhaka, destroys life in three nights. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.21) saphenaṃ rudhiraṃ yasya muhurāsyāt prasicyate/ śūlaiśca tudyate kukṣiḥ pratyākhyeyastathāvidhaḥ// > From whose mouth frothy blood repeatedly pours out, > and whose belly is pierced with colicky pains: such a one should be refused. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.22) balamāṃsakṣayastīvro rogavṛddhirarocakaḥ/ yasyāturasya lakṣyante trīn pakṣānna sa jīvati// > Severe loss of strength and flesh, increase of disease, and anorexia: > in whichever patient these are observed, he does not live three fortnights. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.23) tatra ślokau--- > Here are two verses: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.23\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.23_1) vijñānāni manuṣyāṇāṃ maraṇe pratyupasthite/ bhavantyetāni saṃpaśyedanyānyevaṃvidhāni ca// > These signs appear in men when death is imminent; > one should observe these and others of such kind. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.24) tāni sarvāṇi lakṣyante na tu sarvāṇi mānavam/ viśanti vinaśiṣyantaṃ tasmādbodhyāni sarvataḥ// > All of them are observed, but not all of them enter > a man about to perish; therefore, they must be recognized on every side. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.9.24\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9.24_1) ityagniveśakṛte tantre carakapratisaṃskṛte indriyasthāne yasyaśyāvanimittīyamindriyaṃ nāma navamo 'adhyāyaḥ//9// > Thus ends the ninth chapter, entitled "Indriya on Signs of Grayishness," in the section on sense faculties of the compendium composed by Agniveśa and redacted by Caraka. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka~en-mt.5.9.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangahrdaya.2221) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit - [Bheḷasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.bhela.5.10.12) — Bheḷa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.5.9) · Pramāṇa