A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.438.2

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the outermost of these four paṭalas is closely connected (āśrita) with the fiery and watery parts of the eye,²⁵ the other ones are connected with the muscles, fatty tissue, and bones respectively (1.18);²⁶ their thickness (bāhulya) is one-fifth of the dṛṣṭi (1.19ab); the (structures) holding (the parts of) the eyes together are the sirās, kaṇḍarās, fatty tissue (medas), cartilaginous tissue (kālaka),²⁷ and, beyond the kāla,²⁸ the phlegm (śleṣman), along with its sirās (1.19cd–20ab); the doṣas, spreading upwards through the sirās, cause very serious diseases when they reach the eyes (1.20cd–21ab);²⁹ the prodromes of eye diseases (1.21cd–23); general principles of treatment (1.24–25); aetiological factors in eye diseases (1.26–27); ten eye diseases are due to vāta, ten to pitta, thirteen to kapha, sixteen to blood, twenty-five to all the doṣas together, and two to exogenous (bāhya) factors, thus making a total of seventy-six (1.28–29ab);30 incurable diseases due to vāta are: hatādhimantha,31 nimiṣa,32 gambhīrikā dṛṣṭiḥ,33 and vātahatavartman;34 vātajakāca35 is amenable to palliative treatment; curable are: anyamāruta,36 śuṣkākṣipāka,37 vātādhīmantha,38 vātasyanda,39 and mārutaparyaya40 (1.29cd–31ab); incurable diseases due to pitta are: hrasvajāḍya41 and the pitta type of jalasrāva;42 the parimlāyin43 and nīla types of kāca44 are amenable to palliative treatment when due to pitta;