A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c24.95

v1.c24.95

Chapter fifteen (vātavyādhinidāna) deals with the following subjects: the importance of vāta (15.1–3ab);³⁵⁸ the actions of vāta, its five kinds, their seats, etc., have already been described in the doṣavijñāna chapter;³⁵⁹ the causes and characteristics of abnormalities due to vāta will be described now (15.3cd–5ab); the general causes and features of excitement of vāta (15.5cd–6);³⁶⁰ the symptoms produced by excited vāta localized in the pakvāśaya (15.7–8ab),³⁶¹ āmāśaya (15.8cd–9ab),³⁶² sense organs (15.9c),³⁶³ skin (15.9d),³⁶⁴ blood (15.10),³⁶⁵ muscular and fatty tissues (15.11),³⁶⁶ bones (15.12ab),³⁶⁷ marrow (15.12cd),³⁶⁸ semen (15.13a–c),³⁶⁹ sirās³⁷⁰ and snāyus³⁷¹ (15.13cd–14ab), junctures (15.14cd–15ab),³⁷² and whole body (15.15cd–16ab);³⁷³ the features of ākṣepaka (15.16cd–17ab),³⁷⁴ apatantraka or apatāna (15.17cd–21),³⁷⁵ antarāyāma (15.22–24c),³⁷⁶ bahirāyāma (15.24d–26),³⁷⁷ vraṇāyāma (15.27–28ab);³⁷⁸ a patient with ākṣepaka feels well again when the impulse (vega) has passed off (15.28cd);³⁷⁹ the features of hanusraṃsa (15.29–30),³⁸⁰ jihvāstambha (15.31),³⁸¹ ardita,³⁸² called ekāyāma³⁸³ by others (15.32–37ab), sirāgraha (15.37cd–38ab),³⁸⁴ ekāṅgaroga, also called pakṣavadha,³⁸⁵ and sarvāṅgaroga³⁸⁶ (15.38cd–41),³⁸⁷ daṇḍaka (15.42),³⁸⁸ avabāhuka (15.43),³⁸⁹ viśvācī (15.44),³⁹⁰ khañja³⁹¹ and paṅgu³⁹² (15.45), kalāyakhañja (15.46),³⁹³ ūrustambha,³⁹⁴ called ādhyavāta by others³⁹⁵ (15.47–51),³⁹⁶ kroṣṭukaśīrṣa (15.52),³⁹⁷ vātakaṇṭaka (15.53),³⁹⁸ gṛdhrasī (15.54),³⁹⁹ khallī (15.55ab),⁴⁰⁰ pādaharṣa (15.55cd–56ab),⁴⁰¹ and pādadāha (15.56cd–57).⁴⁰²