The Compendium of Caraka 5.5
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Now we shall expound the chapter on prognostic signs relating to prodromes.
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Thus declared the revered Ātreya.
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We shall explain individually the separated and combined prodromes
of incurable diseases, for the increase of knowledge among physicians.
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He whom all the prodromes stated for fever enter in extreme excess,
him death enters, preceded by fever.
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And that man whom the prodromes of any other disease
enter in this manner—for him too death is certain.
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We shall explain other extremely dreadful specific prodromes
that attend diseases, and by which death is brought on.
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He whose strength declines and whose coryza increases,
addicted to women, in him consumption arises leading to death.
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He who in a dream goes to the southern quarter with dogs, camels, or donkeys,
contracts wasting and departs this life.
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He who in a dream drinks liquor with ghosts or is dragged by a dog,
contracts a dreadful fever and departs this life.
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He who sees the sky nearby resembling lac or red cloth,
contracts bleeding disorder and is brought to his end by that very condition.
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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.
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Colic, flatulence with rumbling, intestinal noises, extreme weakness,
and discoloration of the nails and other parts: this seizure brings death by abdominal swelling.
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A thorny, terrifying creeper that sprouts from one's heart in a dream—
such a man cruel abdominal swelling enters, bringing his end.
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He whose body tears severely upon even slight touch,
and whose wounds do not heal, death destroys him through skin diseases.
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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.
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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.
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The man who in a dream drinks various types of unctuous substances with Caṇḍālas
is seized by urinary disease and afflicted to his end.
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Brooding, exhaustion, agitation, confusion arising without cause,
restlessness, and loss of strength: death preceded by insanity.
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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.
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Wrathful, full of dread, his face suddenly breaking into laughter,
plagued by fainting and thirst: insanity destroys the embodied soul.
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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.
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One who, while awake, sees profound darkness and hears many kinds of unreal sounds
is seized by epilepsy.
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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.
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The jaws, carotid vessels, and eyes of one who has awakened become rigid:
opisthotonos seizing him destroys him without doubt.
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A man who eats spirals of pastry or cakes in a dream,
if on waking he vomits such food, he does not survive.
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He who properly understands these premonitory symptoms,
he is fit to know their consequence and their result.
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And one should observe these other dreadful dreams,
which bring destruction or great suffering to the sick:
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Upon whose head bamboos, shrubs, creepers, and the like grow,
upon which birds settle, and he who goes bald in a dream;
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Who is surrounded in a dream by vultures, owls, dogs, crows, and the like,
by rakṣases, ancestral spirits, piśācas, women, caṇḍālas, Dravidians, and Andhras;
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Who indeed gets entangled in a dream in thickets of bamboos, canes, creepers, snares, grass, and thorns,
or who while walking falls down;
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Who falls down in a dream onto ground covered with dust, onto an anthill, onto ashes,
into a cremation ground, or into a pit;
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Who in a dream sinks into turbid water, mud, or a well enveloped in darkness,
and who is carried away by a swift current;
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Drinking unctuous substances, anointing the body, emesis, and purgation;
gaining gold, quarreling, imprisonment, and defeat in a dream;
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The loss of a pair of shoes, slipping of the skin of the feet,
joy, and rebuke by enraged ancestors in a dream;
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The falling or destruction of teeth, moon, sun, constellations, deities, lamps, or eyes,
or the split of a mountain in a dream;
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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;
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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;
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They do not wish for the sighting in a dream of persons wearing ochre robes, unkindly,
naked, holding staffs, black, and having red eyes.
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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.
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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.
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Because of the clogging of the mind-carrying channels by the three excessively aggravated doṣas,
he sees dreadful dreams at a dreadful time.
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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.
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Seen, heard, experienced, desired, imagined,
prophetic, and born of the doṣas: dreams are known to be of seven kinds.
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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.
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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.
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Even having seen an inauspicious dream, if right then he again
sees a gentle, auspicious form, one should know its result to be auspicious.
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Here is a verse:
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The physician who understands these dreadful premonitory symptoms and dreams
does not, out of delusion, undertake treatments in incurable cases.
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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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- Carakasaṃhitā — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit