A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c47.114

v3.c47.114

The eight aṅgas of āyurveda are not referred to. The arrangement of the diseases is peculiar to this treatise. They are classified, in the same way as human diseases in the Suśrutasaṃhitā,684 into three broad categories: ādhyātmika, ādhibhautika and ādhidāivika (I.7). The Hastyāyurveda enumerates seventy-six diseases by vāta (I.7.7cd–17ab), twenty-seven by pitta (7.17cd–21), thirty-two by kapha (7.22–27ab), fifteen by rakta (7.27cd–30ab), twenty-two by saṃnipāta (7.30cd–33), fourteen by vāta and pitta (7.34–36), sixteen by vāta and kapha (7.37–40a), seven by vāta and rakta (7.40b–41c), three by kapha and rakta (7.41d–42ab), three by pitta and kapha (7.42cd–43a), three by vāta, rakta and pitta (7.43b–d), three by kapha, rakta and vāta (7.44), one by pitta, rakta and kapha (7.45ab), 685 six by bhūtas and vāta (7.45cd–46), and five which are of mental origin (7.47–48ab). These 233 diseases 686 form the ādhyātmika category. The category called āgantuka 687 comprises eighty-three diseases (7.49–61ab), which makes the total number into 316. 688