Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c12.38.2

c12.38.2

This is caused by prolapse and enlargement of spleen which becomes hard as stone and pushed like the back of a tortoise and fills the left side of the belly with violent troubles. Similar symptoms on the right side are called yakṛddālyudara. 6. baddhaguda. This is caused by constipating food or by hair or stone in the food. The symptom is that the faeces accumulate in the anus and come out only in small quantity with troubles. There is also thirst, heat etc. and formation of a swelling between the navel and the heart. 7. parisrāvyudara or chirodara. This is caused by fish-bones, bones, wood, grass and other foreign bodies (*śalya*) in the food which wound the intestines and cause a flow of fluid from the anus with faeces and a swelling below the navel, with indigestion and other troubles. 8. udakodara, dakodara, jalodara. This is caused by untimely drinking of cold water. The belly is severely pushed as if filled with water so that it is felt and heard as a filled water-leatherbag. There is thirst, loss of appetite, prolapse and pain in the anus, feebleness, cough, breathlessness, swelling on the feet, etc. This is the ascitis coming already in the Vedas as thrown on the sinners by Varuna, the god of waters. It comes also in Manu 8.82 as "the fetters of Varuna" with which he fastens the perjurers. In other *udara*s also water can be produced and then they, as a rule, are incurable. Congenital *udara* is similarly incurable.