A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c8.61

v1.c8.61

The ‘four pillars’ are referred to at the beginning of the chapter. Punarvasu Ātreya is reported to declare that rational (yuktiyukta) treatment leads to freedom from disease. He is contradicted by Maitreya, who states that people recover or die from disease, irrespective of treatment. 139 Ātreya replies that successful treatment depends on correct knowledge concerning curable (sādhya) and incurable (asādhya) diseases (10.3–8). 140