A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c20.s2.7.1

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The larger part of the quotations, however, are absent from the text of the *Carakasaṃhitā*; they deal with the following subjects: (1) seasonal regimen: Toḍara II: 3.130 184 and 196–198; 185 (2) epidemic diseases (janapadoddhvaṃsa): Toḍara II: 3.225 and 226–228; 186 (3) the means of knowledge concerning diseases: Toḍara II: 1.130; 187 (4) the qualities of the three doṣas and substances suitable to alleviate excited doṣas: Toḍara II: 2.63–64; 188 (5) the threefold movement of the doṣas: Toḍara II: 2.38; 189 (6) the relationships between the tastes and the mahābhūtas: Toḍara II: 3.66–67; 190 (7) the firmness (saṃhati) of the body: Toḍara II: 3.378–381ab; 191 (8) the number of hairs (roman) of the human body: Toḍara II: 4.51–53ab; 192 (9) the metabolic transformation of the seven bodily elements: Śrīdāsapaṇḍita ad A.h.Śa.3. 61cd–62ab; (10a) the formation of śukra in males and females and the duration of this process in persons with a strong, mildly weak, weak and very weak bodily fire: Śrīdāsapaṇḍita ad A.h.Śa.3.65cd–66ab and 67cd; (10b) śukra derives from the six tastes (ṣaṭprabhava) and from four mahābhūtas: Toḍara II: 4.92–94 and 95–96; (11) the influence of the diet and behaviour of a pregnant woman on the unborn child: Toḍara II: 4.159–160 and 205–215;¹⁹³ (12) embryology: Toḍara II: 4.188 and 193;¹⁹⁴ (13) ariṣṭas: Toḍara II: 5.55;