A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c42.s5.22

v3.c42.s5.22

A separate chapter on kṣatakṣīṇa (Ca.Ci.11) does not form part of the *Bhelasaṃhitā*, where this disorder is merely mentioned in passing (Ci.4.73; 24.29; Sū.7.50; 8.23). A separate chapter on mūtraḳcchra (Ci.12) is absent from the *Carakasaṃhitā*, which deals with this disorder in the trimarmīya chapter (Ci.26). The treatment of visarpa and vātaśoṇita is described in one chapter in the *Bhelasaṃhitā* Ci.15), in two chapters (Ci.21 and 29) in the *Carakasaṃhitā*. The *Bhelasaṃhitā* does not present a separate chapter on udāvarta, as the *Bhelasaṃhitā* does (Ci.18); Caraka describes it in the trimarmīya chapter (Ci.26). The same applies to hṛdroga (Bhela Ci.19; Ca.Ci.26). The chapter of the *Bhelasaṃhitā* on śīroroga, karṇaroga, kaṇṭharoga and arocaka (Ci.21) has no parallel in the *Carakasaṃhitā*, which deals with these diseases in a number of chapters (Sū.17 and Sū.9: śīroroga; Ci.26: karṇaroga, kaṇṭharoga and arocaka (Ci.21) ṇṭharoga mentioned; Ci.26: The *Bhelasaṃhitā* has a separate chapter on ajīrṇa (Ci.22), described in the chapter on grahaṇī (Ci.15) of the *Carakasaṃhitā*. Nidrā (sleep) and mūrcḥā (fainting) are the subjects of one chapter (Ci.23); the *Carakasaṃhitā* deals with sleep and its disorders, as well as with mūrcḥā, in the Sūtrasthāna (Sū.21 and 24). The subjects of the chapter on plīhan and halimaka (Ci.25) are distributed over two chapters of the *Carakasaṃhitā* (Ci.13, the chapter on udara, and 16, the chapter on pāṇḍuroga). 38 Apatantraka, the subject of a separate chapter in the *Bhelasaṃhitā* (Ci.26), 38 is discussed in the Siddhisthāna (9.14) of the *Carakasaṃhitā*.