Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c10.27

c10.27

From the standpoint of the principle of rebirth, those diseases are considered as *karmaja*, i.e. proceeding from the misdeeds in a previous birth, for which there appears no visible cause and which resist the usual curing methods. One must try to cure them by penance (*prāyaścitta*). Where serious ailments arise out of trivial causes, it is due to a combined effect of the *doṣas* and previous misdeeds (AHr 1.12. 57 ff.; Bhāv 1.1.126 ).