Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 2

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2.1 — 46 parts
2.2 — 1 part
2.3 — 28 parts
2.4 — 13 parts
2.5 — 47 parts
2.6 — 7 parts
2.7 — 53 parts
2.8 — 5 parts
2.9 — 21 parts
2.10 — 20 parts

2.1.1

Ātreya said: / Now, therefore, I shall thoroughly explain the excellent second section: / auspicious and inauspicious dreams, and prognostic signs regarding health in man.

2.1.2

Listen in brief, my son, as it is revealed, dear child.

2.1.3

Hārīta said: / I have understood, O highly wise one, the excellent food and drink; / now I wish to understand the diagnosis of diseases,

2.1.4

and those diseases that are born of karma: declare them, O highly wise one.

2.1.5

Ātreya said: / Indeed, all diseases of embodied beings are born of karma; / they are all forms of hell, and they are either curable or incurable.

2.1.6

When a sin has been committed unknowingly, and one afterwards performs penance, / through the power of expiation the disease becomes curable.

2.1.7

When it is committed knowingly, and one afterwards performs penance, / at the end, through expiation, the disease becomes curable with difficulty.

The killer of a brahmin, the killer of a cow, the killer of a king, the destroyer of groves and water-reservoirs, the adulterer, / the violator of the master's wife, of the teacher's wife, or of a woman of one's own family: these are the thirteen powerful kinds of diseases.

2.1.9

Anaemia, leprosy, consumption, diarrhoea, urinary disorders, retention of urine, urinary calculus, and dysuria, / acute colic, dyspnoea, cough, swelling, and wounds: these afflictions of men are of the nature of sin.

2.1.10

Fever, indigestion, vomiting, dizziness, stupor, sluggishness of digestive fire, / disorders of the liver and spleen, haemorrhoids, and wasting: these are secondary vitiators.

2.1.11

Wound, colic, headache, and upward internal haemorrhage: / these diseases, O highly wise one, arise indeed from a curse.

2.1.12

Many other diseases also arise, born of the doshas; / therefore I shall speak in brief: listen, O highly wise one.

2.1.13

The killer of a brahmin becomes anaemic; the killer of a cow becomes lepromatous; / the regicide suffers consumption; the destroyer [of reservoirs] suffers diarrhoea.

2.1.14

From sexual relations with a master's wife, urinary disorders arise; / from intercourse with a teacher's wife arises urinary disease and urinary calculus;

2.1.15

and from intercourse with a woman of one's own family arises fistula-in-ano; / one who torments others suffers acute colic; from calumny, people suffer dyspnoea and cough.

2.1.16

Those who create obstacles on the road are born with diseases of the feet; / from a curse arises a wound, or liver disease is produced.

2.1.17

One who showers faeces in a temple or in water / develops extremely dreadful diseases of the anus, born of sin.

2.1.18

For those who torment twice-borns, severe fevers arise; / and from creating obstacles to another's food, indigestion arises.

2.1.19

A poisoner suffers vomiting, and likewise paralysis and staggering of the limbs; / a rogue suffers epilepsy; one who gives bad food has sluggish digestive fire.

2.1.20

Liver and spleen disease arises from the sin of destroying an embryo; / wound, colic, and headache arise from causing torment to others.

2.1.21

One addicted to drinking what should not be drunk develops internal haemorrhage; / one who sets forest fires develops erysipelas.

2.1.22

One who cuts down many trees develops numerous wounds; / and from stealing another's property, dysentery arises.

2.1.23

From stealing gold, one gets diseased nails and birth [with deformities]; / from stealing silver, white leprosy; from stealing copper, rhagades of the feet.

2.1.24

A thief of tin gets sidhma leprosy; a stealer of lead gets mouth disease; / a thief of iron becomes a stammerer; a thief of salt becomes excessively diuretic.

2.1.25

A thief of ghee develops intestinal disease, and a thief of oil has severe itching; / by these defects one becomes one-eyed, crooked of speech, or squint-eyed.

2.1.26

One has defective, blackish teeth; malicious speech; corruption by leprosy; / from destroying tastes, tongue disease; a killer of kin suffers spider-bite ulcers.

2.1.27

These indeed are the great faults; therefore I shall declare the expiation / by which these sinful diseases are overcome with difficulty.

2.1.28

Having performed the gift of a cow, the gift of land, the gift of gold, and worship of the gods, / one should afterwards apply remedies for the relief of anaemia.

2.1.29

In the case of great sins, one's entire property [should be given]; half of that in the case of secondary faults; / according to Ātreya, one-sixtieth or one-tenth should be determined based on the strength or weakness of the disease.

2.1.30

For the pacification of leprosy, rites performed sixty-nine times [are prescribed], / as well as the donation of cows and gold, and the offering of sweet food.

2.1.31

Having bestowed this fourfold gift, one should perform counter-measures; / sometimes it might succeed, as well as an operation to restore strength and lifespan.

2.1.32

In urinary anomaly, the donation of gold is given; in colic, asthma, and fistula-in-ano, / by the donation of a horse and a bullock, one is freed from asthma and cough.

2.1.33

In fever, one should perform worship of Īśvara and the recitation of the Rudra hymns; / and in one afflicted with vertigo, the donation of abundant food and drink and the donation of an edged weapon [should be made].

2.1.34

In sluggish digestion, an agnihotra oblation is offered; in abdominal lump, the gifting of a maiden; / and for the destruction of urinary anomalies and calculus, salt is given.

2.1.35

By donating plenty of food, one is freed from the disease of colic. / In high fever, an appeasing rite [is performed], and one should bathe Śiva

2.1.36

with a thousand pots of water; thereby success arises, and one is freed from fever. / By giving ghee and honey, bleeding disorders subside.

2.1.37

By watering a large tree, one is freed from erysipelas; / and by watering a banyan tree, multiple wounds will not persist here.

2.1.38

Dysentery may be cured by the fourfold gift. / From the gift of gold, one afflicted with bad nails and black teeth becomes happy.

2.1.39

By donating silver, leucoderma is said to be curable; / in sidhma-leprosy, the donation of tin; in barbarian leprosy, the donation of iron;

2.1.40

in mouth sores, the gift of lead; the gift of a cow in severe boils; / in eye disease, one should give ghee; fragrant substance in nasal disease;

2.1.41

the gift of oil in itching, and the gift of mercury in tongue disease. / By one with dark teeth, honouring of the gods should be performed; / in lip disease likewise; in spider poison, one should give cows.

2.1.42

And I will describe other bodily afflictions of men: / one who puts others to shame by censuring them becomes blind in one eye from the intense sun;

2.1.43

a killer of hoofed beasts becomes crooked-nosed; a slayer of birds becomes paralyzed by hemiplegia; / a dwarf arises from self-praise; a hater of others becomes extremely jaundiced and yellow-eyed;

2.1.44

and one who performs malevolent sorcery against another is born deformed. / These and other great diseases arise born of sins.

2.1.45

Even if there is no cure in this world, there should not be [misery] in the other world; / therefore, the best of physicians should indeed have penance performed.

2.1.46

As long as the patient experiences his sin again in another birth, / when penance has been performed, he is not born again [with that disease] in existence.

2.1.46.p1

Thus ends, in the second section of the supplemental Hārīta taught by Ātreya, the counteraction of sins and flaws,

2.2.1

the first chapter.

2.3.1

Ātreya said: / Listen, son, in brief, as it is illuminated, dear child; / so shall the knowledge of prognostic signs and the medicine be proclaimed.

2.3.2

Dreams arising from vāta, from pitta, from fear, or from deficient strength, / and those when full of urine and bile—one should discard these six dreams.

2.3.2.p1

A dream seen in the first watch of the night
yields its auspicious fruit within a year;

2.3.3

that seen in the second watch after the watch has passed yields fruit in half a year; / that in the third watch yields fruit in three months.

2.3.4

At the close of night, they declare, it may yield some fruit to man in ten days; / the tranquil declare it yields fruit in one day at dawn, and it is taught to take six months when seen at midday.

2.3.5

In dreams, the wise consider white things auspicious, except for all of these: / cotton, ash, bones, skull, and a trident cause misfortune or illness to men.

2.3.6

All black things in a dream cause misfortune or illness to men, / and they are blamed, except for these: / a cow, a horse, a king, a twice-born, an elephant, and fish;

2.3.6.p1

a mirror, a flower, an ornament, an umbrella, or a banner;
curd, fruit, and cloth, food, betel, and garments;

2.3.7

a lotus, a water-pot, conch shells, and an ornament of gold— / all these bring welfare and well-being to the sick.

2.3.7.p1

A person who sees the sun, the lord of the night, a circle of stars,
or a lotus pool filled with clusters of blooming lotuses,

2.3.8

or who crosses over an expanse of water and the other side of a mighty river, / attains intense happiness and prosperity, and the sick gain release from disease.

2.3.9

Whatever word a god, a twice-born, the ancestors, or a king speaks in dreams, / exactly so and not otherwise will happen to a man, whether it brings him happiness, misfortune, or illness.

2.3.9.p1

A cow, a horse, an elephant, kings, and praised flowers:
if a sick man sees them in dreams, it leads to happiness;

2.3.10

and one afflicted with disease sees them for the destruction of illness; / even a bound man sees them for immediate release from bondage.

2.3.11

One who sees an ornament, a temple, a maiden, curd, a fish, or a boy, / or a tree flowering with creeping vines and bearing fruit—in a healthy person it brings wealth, and in an invalid the destruction of illness.

2.3.12

Drinking milk in a dream is extremely auspicious, or drinking liquor, or eating goat, / or ghee, barley gruel, rice with lentils, or rice pudding—all bring happiness.

2.3.13

If a white snake bites a sleeping man on the tip of the hand, on his limbs, / it portends the acquisition of a son or wealth, or it will quickly effect the destruction of diseases.

2.3.14

A man who in a dream embraces an exquisite woman dressed in white clothes, / for him there will be great happiness, fortune, the birth of a good son, and destruction of illnesses.

2.3.15

He who in dreams sees a heap of grain—sesame, rice, / wheat, mustard, barley, and the like—acquisition of grain is a cause of cure of disease and quickly brings happiness to a man.

2.3.16

When it bears fruit, there is acquisition of wealth; when ablaze, destruction of disease; / when blooming, happiness is known; and when full, the desired fruit is attained.

2.3.17

He who sees his own body being devoured by crows, herons, young camels, serpents, hogs, owls, vultures, / jackals, wolves, donkeys, female buffaloes, demons, dogs, / tigers, alligators, crocodiles, or monkeys, utterly experiences loss, calamity, or disease.

2.3.17.p1

The man who sees himself inunctioned
especially with clarified butter, animal fat, or oil,

2.3.18

for him an onset of illness occurs quickly in this world; / the wise say proper countermeasures must be undertaken.

2.3.20

If one sees a woman clad in red or black, with dishevelled hair, crawling along, / standing in the south, weeping, or singing,

2.3.21

and she calls him angrily, embraces him, or chews him— / if a happy person sees this, he falls sick; if a sick person, he meets death.

2.3.22

He in whose dream the falling out of decayed teeth is seen, / or whose hair and body hairs fall out—even if happy, he meets misfortune.

2.3.23

He whose bed breaks from the blow of an iron club or similar weapon, / and blood is seen on his body—if healthy, he falls into disease.

2.3.24

A man who sees an empty house, or sees a palace devoid of gods, / or intense heat from the moon, or trees in bloom—for him there is misfortune, and he quickly meets death.

2.3.25

If a man sees a broken idol, a pot, a tree with broken branches, or a collapsed / temple—if happy, he incurs a host of diseases; if already seized by disease, he quickly dies.

2.3.26

The man whom the ancestors summon, turning toward the southern quarter, soon suffers death. / The one to whom someone appears raising a spear, a staff, or a noose in hand and summons him, soon suffers a painful death.

2.3.27

If one sees in a dream cotton, ash, bones, a skull, a trident, / a discus, or a noose, he faces calamities or the loss of disease and wealth, or if ill, he suffers a most painful death.

2.3.27.p1

Thus are described those [dreams], especially auspicious ones, when a man is asleep at night.

2.3.28

Knowing thus quickly, O broad-minded one, you must prescribe a mantra for the destruction of the disease,

2.3.29

As well as bathing, giving gifts, worship of the gods, and oblation, according to the ordinance for good fortune; / through these, bad dreams are destroyed, and [the treatment] quickly brings auspiciousness and happiness.

2.3.29.p1

Thus ends the second chapter, named 'The Chapter on Dreams', in the second section of the later work of Hārīta, spoken by Ātreya.

2.4.1

Ātreya said: / Listen, O son of great intellect, to the prognostic sign regarding health in a person, / which accomplishes every purpose of the body and is the essence of the science of medicine.

2.4.2

A wise man who cannot properly see the Pole Star or gold, / for him, death certainly occurs within six months.

2.4.3

A man who cannot see the crescent sliver of the moon on the second day, and whose teeth fall out, / his life leaves his body quickly upon reaching three months and goes to the realm of Yama.

2.4.4

He who does not hear the ringing in his ears, while proud and dead lice fall from [his head] in numbers, / or who hears sounds inversely, abandons life upon reaching two months.

2.4.5

He who, having a healthy body, breathes through his mouth, whose eyes are reddish and face is dark, / whose tongue is cracked and teeth are black, even if seemingly healthy, quickly goes to the realm of Yama.

2.4.6

He who has a headache at dawn, who sees a halo around a lamp, / and who sees a film of dust, he goes to death; he does not have a long life.

2.4.7

He who sees the moon within the disc of the sun, or sees a halo without one, / or sees the sun's orb enveloped in smoke, goes quickly to death.

2.4.8

He who, when the sky is clear and cloudless, sees Indra's bow in the cardinal and intermediate directions, / and likewise lightning before his eyes, he quickly goes to the realm of Yama.

2.4.9

A man who, even with closed eyes, sees a flashing brilliance before him, / or who, upon closing the aperture of his ears, hears no sound at all,

2.4.10

And whose tongue somehow cannot distinguish merely the taste of bitter and other flavours, / and that man sees the dreadful approach of Vaivasvata,

2.4.11

A man whose body is exceedingly hot or cold, or turbid and not cold, / who has no horripilation even when sprinkled with ice-cold water, and who does not recover from a blow of a stick—he does not swiftly attain charming health again to behold people in this world, [departing] to the world of Śrāddhadeva.

2.4.12

He who does not see his own reflection in oil, water, a mirror, clarified butter, / or in another's eye, goes to the realm of Yama; know him to be truly bereft of life.

2.4.12.p1

Thus in the second section of the later work of Hārīta, spoken by Ātreya, [the chapter] named 'Prognostic Signs Regarding Health',

2.4.3-2

The third chapter.

2.5.1

Ātreya said: / Those diseases which, fortified by complications, become incurable / through rejuvenation therapy and the like—listen to them from me, dear one, with single-minded attention.

2.5.2

Disorders of wind, urinary disorder, leprosy, haemorrhoids, fistula-in-ano, / urinary calculus, obstructed labour, and abdominal disease as the eighth—

2.5.3

These eight great diseases are difficult to treat by their very nature.

2.5.4

When they are further beset by these complications: loss of strength and flesh, dyspnoea, thirst, desiccation, vomiting, fever, / fainting, diarrhoea, and hiccup,

2.5.5

They must be especially avoided by a physician desiring success.

2.5.6

One whose tongue becomes sharp, or yellow, or of bluish tinge, / whose breathing is exceedingly hot, and whose body is covered in goosebumps,

2.5.7

Whose eyes are blue, reddish, or yellow, and whose throat rattles— / afflicted with fever, he whose symptoms are such does not survive.

2.5.8

He whose breath is foul in the mouth, whose row of teeth is darkened, / and whose eyes are fixed by force, afflicted with fever, does not survive at all.

2.5.9

He who urinates excessively, pants heavily, is emaciated, tormented by loss of appetite, / and whose lustre and sense faculties are destroyed, suffering from fever, quickly perishes.

2.5.10

He in whose mouth blood collects, who suffers from a headache, / who is burning within and cold without, reaches death through fever.

2.5.11

A man who faints and loses consciousness, or lies fallen, / afflicted with cold while burning inside, dies of fever.

2.5.12

He whose body hair stands on end, whose eyes are red, who has crushing pain in his heart, / and who constantly exhales through his mouth, him that fever kills.

2.5.13

Fever destroys the emaciated man who is tormented by hiccup, dyspnoea, and thirst, / who is senseless, whose eyes wander, and who exhales continuously.

2.5.14

Fever destroys the man whose eyes are turbid, who faints, who is excessively lethargic, / and whose blood and flesh are depleted.

2.5.15

Fever quickly destroys one with thick sputum, overflowing eyes, tormented by loss of appetite, / with burning within and a blackened tongue.

2.5.16

He who, though treated for one complication, shows no relief, / and has other severe complications, being mostly multiform—

2.5.17

Through that, being severe, he falls under the sway of death and admits of no success.

2.5.18

He in whom diarrhoea is seen first, and next / dyspnoea and desiccation appear, he too quickly goes to death.

2.5.19

Diarrhoea destroys a man who is afflicted with dyspnoea, colic, and thirst, / emaciated, oppressed by fever, and especially an aged man.

2.5.20

He who has diarrhoea and swelling, together with loss of appetite and colic, / also quickly goes to death despite numerous treatments.

2.5.21

When swelling arises in all limbs of a child, an extremely old man, / or an incapacitated man, that patient with swelling certainly dies.

2.5.22

He who has flatulence, colic, dyspnoea, thirst, fainting, / and headache, that patient suffering from colic meets death.

2.5.23

A man whose teeth and nails are pale, whose eyes are pale, / and who has pale accumulations, that patient with anaemia perishes.

2.5.24

He whose skin is pale, whose eyes are pale, or whose urine is whitish, / and who has pale flatus, that patient with anaemia perishes.

2.5.25

A man who has white eyes, an aversion to food, is afflicted with orthopnoea, / and urinates copiously with difficulty, him consumption kills in this world.

2.5.26

He who is depleted of bodily tissues, afflicted with swelling and dyspnoea, / who eats excessively and feels disgust, that patient with consumption perishes.

2.5.27

He whose nasal breathing is cold while his mouth blowing is hot, / whose pulse is rapid and who finds no relief, quickly goes to the abode of Yama.

2.5.28

Trembling of the limbs, loss of the gait, or a saffron-hued face, / and wind emitted in evacuation—he goes to the abode of Yama.

2.5.29

When a disease is long-standing and advanced, and [the patient] is unable to take food, / with a broken frame, one should abandon him; even a medicament holds no secret [power]. / Recognizing such a man, the wise administer [palliative] care.

2.5.30

From the loss of feces, breathlessness, and swelling, as well as torment by fever, / his chest [becoming] deep and thick—it wastes that man away.

2.5.31

Breathlessness, colic, distress of thirst, aversion [to food], stupor from internal masses, / and debility occur in a sufferer from abdominal swelling who is approaching death.

2.5.32

Whose eyes, tongue, and lower lip are red, or who vomits blood, / who passes blood in urine, passes blood in stool, having internal haemorrhage—he perishes.

2.5.33

He who vomits red repeatedly, with blood-red eyes, / and sees the cardinal directions as red, having internal haemorrhage—he perishes.

2.5.34

Whose face is swollen, afflicted with dizziness and anorexia, / with constipation and abdominal colic—he perishes from enlargement [of the abdomen].

2.5.35

Distended, stiff, motionless, accompanied by vomiting, hiccup, and pain, / beset with agony and breathlessness—an internal abscess destroys such a man.

2.5.36

He who has dreadful thirst, burning heat, or vomiting, / and is seized by dizziness—that man does not survive.

2.5.37

When her term is unfulfilled, if a woman suffering from fever gets her menses, / she will not survive, O greatly wise one, if she has purgation.

2.5.38

He who is afflicted with swelling and breathlessness, possessed of thirst, and suffering colic, / tormented by jaundice and anaemia—that man meets with death.

2.5.39

From whose fistula wind, urine, feces, / worms, and semen discharge—one should abandon him.

2.5.40

Swelling at the navel and testicles, retention of urine, and accompanied by pain— / urinary calculus, along with gravel and sandy particles, swiftly destroys him.

2.5.41

Seized by irritation of the fetus, with retention in the vaginal canal, / in obstructed labour, these complications mentioned also kill the woman.

2.5.42

Tormented by pain in the flanks, aversion to food, swelling, and diarrhoea, / having frequent fits of epilepsy, emaciated, and with knitted brows,

2.5.43

and rolling his eyes—epilepsy will destroy him.

2.5.44

A man afflicted with colic, numbness of skin, broken [faculties], tormented by tympanites, / and suffering acute pain—a wind disease will destroy him.

2.5.45

Afflicted with the complications mentioned, with excessive urinary discharge, / and severely tormented by boils—urinary disorder kills a man.

2.5.46

Fissured, with oozing limbs, red eyes, and a ruined voice, / beyond the reach of the five procedures—leprosy kills the leper here.

2.5.47

Facing downward or facing upward, extremely wasted in flesh and strength, / [yet] continuously awake—he without doubt perishes from insanity.

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Thus ends the fourth chapter, named 'Prognostic Signs of Diseases', in the second section of the additional part of Hārīta spoken by Ātreya.

2.6.1

Ātreya said: / He who was mild-mannered becomes wrathful, and he who was wrathful assumes a mild character— / both of these, O knower of rules, bring death; a stout man [becomes] lean-bodied more swiftly.

2.6.2

He who is virtuous by nature becomes sinful here, or if an evil soul becomes devoted to virtue, / he swiftly partakes of death here; and whoever by innate constitution undergoes a morbid alteration,

2.6.3

he who is fair-complexioned acquires blackness, and he who is dark acquires extreme fairness— / in this way a man meets death; through morbid alteration of his natural constitution he swiftly undergoes departure [from life].

2.6.4

He who perceives sounds inverted in hearing, or swiftly ceases to hear, / he indeed sees death; and he who cannot see his own shadow fallen upon the earth.

2.6.4.p1

Or he who, impaired in his sensory organs, falls into emaciation,
[or who being] corpulent has a body utterly devoid of lustre—he will behold death.

2.6.5

He who cannot perceive a foul smell anywhere, nor taste— / that man truly enters the dearest grasp of death.

2.6.6

Upon smelling the odour of whose mouth blue flies settle, / or on his nose or body—he surely goes to the realm of Yama.

2.6.6.p1

Thus ends [the chapter] named 'Disorders of the Five Senses', in the second section of the additional part of Hārīta spoken by Ātreya,

2.6.5-2

the fifth chapter.

2.7.1

Ātreya said: / Now, when a disease arises under the conjunction of asterisms, / whether it is curable, incurable, or manageable, I shall declare; listen, my son.

2.7.2

Maghā with the Sun, Viśākhā joined with the Moon, Mars with Ārdrā, / Mūla with Mercury, Kṛttikā with Jupiter, Rohiṇī with Venus, and Hasta with Saturn—

2.7.3

these the skilled call the 'Yama's Bell' conjunctions. / If a man seized by disease, through the fruition of merit, / should survive, how then could he be at ease, unless through the terrible gap of a machine granted by the cloud[-god] under the blazing sun?

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