A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c10.42

v1.c10.42

Three stages of the life cycle are described: bāla, up to sixteen years, dominated by kapha, and extending to the age of thirty years; madhya, dominated by pitta, up to sixty years; jīrṇa, dominated by vāta, up to one hundred years, the maximum life span in the present age of the world (8.122).¹²⁶