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# Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 3.3.2.16

Hārītasaṃhitā 3.3.2.16

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.3.2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita.3.3.2.16)

sādhyā yāpyatvamāyānti yāpyāścāsādhyatāṃ tathā  
ghnanti prāṇāṃśca sādhyāstu narāṇāmakriyāvatām

> it is better to drink the venom of a serpent, or boiled copper, / or to eat iron balls heated red-hot by intense fire,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.haritasamhita~en-mt.3.3.2) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (7)

- [Bhāvaprakāśa (another edition)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.bhavaprakasa*alt.1.6.8) — Sanskrit
- [Siddhayoga (Vṛndamādhava)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.siddhayoga.1.13) — Vṛnda, Sanskrit
- [Āyurvedadīpikā (Carakatātparyaṭīkā) (ed. Yādavjī Trikamjī Ācārya, 1981 printing)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka!cakrapani*jadavji.6.4.10.1) — Sanskrit
- [Cikitsāsārasaṅgraha (Vaṅgasena)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.vangasena.1.34) — Vaṅgasena, Sanskrit
- [Gadanigraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.gadanigraha.14.153) — Soḍhala, Sanskrit
- [Vīrasiṃha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.karmavipaka.virasimha.1.p12) — Bhoja, Sanskrit
- [Vīrasiṃhāvalokana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.prayascitta.karmavipaka.virasimhavalokana.p1.3) — Vīrasiṃha, Sanskrit

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