TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sharma,Priyavrat
TI  - Caraka Samhita : Text with English Translation
SN  - 9788176370127
U1  - 615.538 SHA 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Varanasi
PB  - Chaukhamba Orientalia
N1  - CONTENTS
11. SUTRASTHANA
(Section of fundamentals
) measures-Head evacuation, emesis, purgation, non-unctuous enema and uctuous enema) and their indications
1. Quadruplet on Drugs
On longevity
Chapter-1
Tradition of Ayurveda
Assembly of sages
Six padarthas
Disciples of Ätreya
Ayus and Ayurveda
Samanya and višesa
Medicated gruels indicated in
various disorders
Treatment with compound formulations
Chapter-III
On Aragvadha etc.
Powder anointments useful in leprosy and other skin diseases. Vätika disorders,
colic, vätarakta, headache, chest pain. heat, old, poisoning, excessive
perspiration and foul smell
Chapter-IV
On location of six hundred of evacuatives
Tripod of life
The living person
Dravya, Guna, Karma, Samavāya-
their nature and definition
Purpose of the treatise
Disease and Health-their cause and substrata
Atman
Dosas-psychic and somatic-with
their treatment
Properties and alleviation of dosas
Approach to curable and incurable
diseases
Rasa-definition, composition
Six Rasas and their effect on doșas
Classification of drugs-according
to effect, source and parts used
The root-herbs
The fruit-herbs
Mahāsneha (fats)
Salts
Urines
Milk
Six hundred of evacuative
Six locations of evacuatives
Five sources of extractives
Five pharmaceutical forms of extracts
Fifty great decoctions (grouped
according to pharmacological actions)
Five hundred decoctions.
Physician expert in external as well as internal administration, combi- nation, rational therapeutic uses
8
3
8 9
10
10 10
2. Quadruplet on the Healthy
Chapter-V
On quantity of diet etc.
Quantity of food and its measure Heaviness and lightness of food items
Indicated and contra-indicated food items 3
Emphasis on prevention of disorders Personal hygiene-daily routine
Evacuating plants
Importance of knowledge and
proper use of drugs
Boycott of quacks
Good physician and medicament
Chapter-II
On seeds of Apāmārga etc.
(Dinacaryā)
Collyrium
Smoking
Snuffing and anutaila
Tooth brush
Mouth-refreshing
Oil gargle
Drugs useful in Pañcakarma (five evacuative
Receiving and releasing periods Mode of living in different seasons (stucaryā)
Chapter-VII
On non-suppression of urges etc.
Non-suppressable natural urges, disorders caused by their suppression and their management
Suppressable urges
Physical exercise
Dehaprakrti (body constitution)
42
42
43
47
49
50
51
Excretory passages, increase and decrease of excreta
51
Method of prevention of innate and exogenous disorders
52
Method of use of curd
Chapter-VIII
On introductory description of sense organs
Five pentads
Spiritual factors
Bhautika predominance in sense organs
Sadvrtta (the code of good conduct)
3. Quadruplet on basic precepts
Chapter-IX
On Small quadruple
Definition of health, disease and Quadruple for management of disorders 62
therapeutics Qualities of physician, drug,
attendant and patients
Overall importance of physician
Qualified physicians and quseks
Fourfold attitude of the physician
Chapter-X
xxviii
Oteation of hend
19
Oleation of ears
30
Oily massage of the body
39
Oily massage in feet. Rubbing over the body
40
Bath
40
40
Putting on clean apparel
40
Use of perfumes and garlands
40
Wearing gems and ornaments
30
Cleaning of feet and excretory orifices.
40
Shaving and hair-dressing
40
Foot wears
41
Umbrella
41
Stick
41
Emphasis on health care
Means of livelihood
Chapter-VI
On one's diet etc.
Division of seasons
On great quadruple
Four-legged therapeutics having sixteen
qualities
Role of Therapy-discussion between
Maitreya and Atreya
Management with antagonoistic factors, classification of disease according to curability-easily curable, hardly curable, palliable and rejectable.
Chapter-XI
On three desires etc.
Desires for life, wealth and the world Discussion about the existence of
the other world
Fourfold means of investigationa- uthoritative statement, perception,
inference and rationale Rebirth proved with the methods
Three sub-pillars
Three types of strength
Three causes of disorders
Unwholesome conjunction of sense organs and objects, intellectual
error and consequence
Three types of diseases
Three passages of diseases
Three types of therapy
Emphasis and timely management of disorders
Chapter-XII
On merits and demerits of Väta etc.
Six properties of väta
Aggravating and pacifying factors and their mode of action
Normal and abormal hinctions of väta in body and nature
and abnormality 4. Quadruplet on preparation
On unction
Sources of uncting substances
Single uncting substance
Twenty four media of unction
Chapter-XIII
The four best uncting substances, their properties, indications and method of use 86
Normal and abnormal functions of kapha 84 Role of all these three in normaley
Importance of the discourse Normal and abnormal functions of pitis 1
Symptoms of over-fomentation ami its freatment
96
83
Contra-indications and indications
of fomentation Materials for fomentation
96
Thirteen types of fomentation
08 The ten factors which foment without fire 102
Three duals of the types of fomentation 102 Preparation and after-management
of the patient
102
86
Chapter-XV
On arrangement of accessosies etc.
Importance of prior arrangement
Three doses of unction
Sixty four media of unction
87
of equipments
103
88
Discussion about the unfailing
88
administration of drug
104
oil, fat and marrow
Indications for the use of ghee,
88
Building of the hospital
104 104
Staff and equipments
Duration of unction
89
Preparation of the patient
105
Persons to be uncted
90
Administration of emetic, its dose, signs of activity and instructions to the patient 106
Contra-indications for unction Symptoms of under-unction and
90
over-unction
90
Symptoms of inadequate, proper
and excessive administration
107
Management of the uncted person
Soft-bowelled and hard-bowelled in
relation to unction
90
After-management
107
91
Dietitic regimen
108
91
Administration of purgative
Merits of evacuative therapy
109
114
Complications of improper unction Treatment of complication due to
improper unction (or hyperlipidaemia) Indications and use of uncting media
92
92
Chapter-XVI
92
Media contra-indicated in Leprosy.
oedema and prameha
Excellent uncting ghee
93
Order of administration of unction,
fomentation and evacuation Chapter-XIV
94
On fomentation
Merits of fomentation
95
Effective fomentation
95
Three degrees and types of fomentation
95
Method of fomentation
95
Extent of fomentation
96
On the physician equipped for
treatment etc.
1
Symptoms of proper, inadequate and excessive purgation
Indications for evacuative therapy
Merits of evacuative therapy
After-management of the patient
Management of complications Swabhāvoparama (natural termination of disorder) and the duties of physician
5. Quadruplet on diseases
Chapter-XVII
On the number of head disease etc.
Etiology and pathogenesis of head
diseases
Carl
All
heid
wiije bead danser
of combinatio and ther зуунови
eggravated, hominished and od 119
retention of orine, defects of
breast milk and semen Neven types of leprosy, diabetic boils, erysipelas
Six types of diarrhoea and odavarta (reverse movement of vayu)
Five types of gulma, spleen, cough, cup, thirst, dyspnoes, hiccup, vomiting.
anorexia, head disease, heart disease, anaemia and insanity
416
skaphaja
115
117
hormal dosar
Sympons of dimination of dhatus, matas and ojax
119
120
Causes of diminution of ojas
121
Puttogenesis of diabetes Seven diabetic boils and their characters
121
Vidradhi fabscess)-external-as
well as internal, their etiology, characters and prognosis
121
Other boils
123
Complications of boils Threefold movement of dosas
123
124
Merits of vata, pitta and kapha
124
Chapter-XVIII
On three swellings etc.
Three swellings of two types Exogenous swellings-etiology and principle of treatment Innate swelling-etiology, characters, classification, symptoms, prognosis and complications
Special types of swelling-upajihvikā. galaśundikā, galaganda,galagraha,
visarpa,pidakā,tilak-piplu-vyanganīlikā, śamkhaka,plihāvṛddhi.gulma, vesanaviddhi, udara, änäha and rohini Classification of diseases according
125
Four types of epilepsy, eye diseases, ear diseases, coryza, mouth diseases, grahaniroga, narcosis, fainting, phthisis, impotency
Three types of swelling, leucoderma and internal haemorrhage
Two types of fever, wound, con- tracture, sciatica, jaundice, ama, vätarakta and piles
One urustambha, coma and great disease Twenty types of intestinal parasites (worms), prameha, female genital diaorders
All innate disorders emanate from tridoşa Mutual relation of innate and exogenous disorders
125
Chapter-XX
126
On major diseases
128
to cause and prognosis Three things to be examined by physician Normal functions of vata, pitta, kapha
Characters of their aggravation and diminution
Chapter-XIX
On eight abdominal diseases etc.
Forty eight disease-syndromes Eight types of abdominal disease
Classification and etiology of diseases 1 Difference between innate and
exogenous diseases
Normal and abnormal states caused by tridoşa
Locations of three dosas
Eight vātika disorders
Characters, effects and treatment of vayu 1
Forty paittika disorders
General and specific disorders
Characters, effects & treatment of pitta
Twenty kaphaja disorders
Characters, effects and treatment of kapha 
Emphasis on treatment after full
knowldege of disease and drug
6. Quadruplet on planning (of nutrition)
Chapter-XXI
Management after blood-letting Narcosis, fainting and coma-their symptoms and treatment
7. Quadruplet on food and drinke
Chapter-XXV
Symposium about the early origin of person and his disorders
On the eight despicables etc.
Eight despicable persons.
144
Causes and demerits of over-obesity Causes and demerits of overleanness
144
145
On the origin of person etc.
Merits of the balanced body
146 146
Desaturating therapy for obesity
Saturating therapy for leanness
146
Classification of food
Sleep-cause, merits, proper and improper sleep,day-sleep its indications,contra- indications and demerits
147
Hypnotic and anti-hypnotic measures
148
Types of sleep
149
Chapter-XXII
On reducing and promoting measures
Six therapeutic measures and their 7 properties
150
Reducing measures and their indications
151
Promoting measures and their indications
152
Roughening therapy and its indications
152
Checking therapy and its indications
Symptoms of adequate, inadequate and excessive use of these measures
152
152
Chapter-XXIII
On oversaturation etc.
Means of oversaturation and diseases
caused there by
Treatment of such diseases
Diseases caused by undernutrition and their treatment
Quickly acting and prolonged use of saturating measures
154
154
156
Wholesome and unwholesome food
Best drugs and other entities
Definition of pathya (wholesome)
Eighty four äsavas
Chapter-XXVI
On the discussion among Atreya,
Bhadrakāpya etc.
Symposium on the number of rasa Drug-its properties and action Properties of drug according to their bhautika composition
How drugs act?
Sixty three variations of rasas
in drugs
Rasa and anu-rasa
Parādi gunas
Six rasas-their evolution, bhautika.
composition, properties, actions
and disorders caused by their
excessive use
Knowledge of properties and actions of drugs on the basis of rasa
Three degrees of rasas in relation to six prominent guna
On properly formed blood etc.
Vipäka
Merits of pure blood
Vīrya
Causes of impurity of blood and
Prabhāva
diseases caused thereby Management of such disorders
Characters of six rasas
Incompatible food items
Characters of impure and pure blood
Qualities of the person having
Types of incompatibility
Diseases caused by incompatible
pure blood
food and their management
Chapter-XXVI
On the types of food and drinks
Merits of good food
103
On ten seats of Ten seus of vind breath
Acttom of cerram sodneme
193
Group of anmeld cereals Croup ist legumes
194
195
Group of meats and classification
of animals
196 201
Group of vegetables
Group of fruits
204
Group op of salads
208
Group of fermented liquors
-209
Group of waters
210
Group of milk and milk products
212
Group of sugars and honey
214
Group of dietary preparations
216
Group of adjuncts of food Some considerations regarding
219
food and drinks
221
Postmeal drink (after drink)
222
8. Concluding chapters
Chapter-XXIX vital breath
Pränabhlears (promoter of life)
Two types of physicians Characters of pranabhisara
(qustified physicians) Characters of rogabhiears (quscks)
On great vessels of heart ete. Chapter-XXX
Importance of heart
Ojas
Dhamani, srotas and siră
Best among life-promoting. strengthpromoting,
bulk-promoting, happiness- promoting and paths
Trentise, section, chapter and topics
Textual statement, textual inter- pretation and recapitulation
Some consideration regarding meat
223
Heavy and light food Importance of
224
proper food Chapter-XXVII
224
Medicine related to Atharvaveda
Ayus (life) and its synonyms Definition of Ayurveda
Happy-unhappy and beneficialnon- beneficial life
On various food and drinks etc.
Functions of various foods
226
Ähāraprasāda (rasa) and kitța
(mala) and their functions
226
Measure of life
Objective of Ayurveda
Ayurveda-the eternal
Channels carrying dhatus
Importance of wholesome food
mmunity and resistance to diseases Disorders caused by morbidity of
dhātus, sense organs, ligaments,
vessels and tendons.
Eight divisions of Ayurveda
Rules and merits of the study
of Ayurveda
Eight questions
Treatise
Scope of treatise
Management of these disorders Spread and return of doșas
Eight sections
One hundred and twenty chapters Interrogation and its interpretation Derivation of the words "Tantra',
Emphasis of prevention and cure of disorders
Differentiation between wholesome and liked, investigator and layman
'Sthana' and 'Adhyāya' Use of eight questions
Consequences of intellectual error
Keeping away from quacks and devotion to qualified physicians
Body-the product of food
2. NIDANASTHANA
Prodromal symptoms of prameha
Persons prone to prameha
On diagnosis of kustha (Leprosy) Pathogenic materials of kustia
Types of kustha
General etioloty and pathogenesis
32
2
2
(Section of diagnosis)
Chapter-1
3
On diagnosis of jwara (fever)
Types of diseases
Nidana-its synonyms and types
Complication of prameha
251
251
Vyadhi and its synonyms
Chapter-V
251
rapa, upaśaya and samprapti
Sub-divisions of Samprapti
Means of the knowledge of disease
Definition of Nidäna, pūrvarūpa,
251
251
252
Prodromal symptoms
Eight causes of fever Etiology, pathogenesis of the
253
types of fever
253
Specific symptoms of fever
256
Complications
Chapter-VI
Divisions of fever
256
Prodromal symptoms of fever
257
Importance of fever
257
Chapter-II
Management of acute and chronic fevers 258
On diagnosis of Raktapitta
(innate haemorrhage)
Etiology and pathogenesis of rakta-pitta 259
Derivation and significance of the nomenclature 'raktapitta'
Prodromal symptoms
Complications
Pathways
Prognosis
Mythical origin
Management
Chapter-III
On diagnosis of gulma
Types of gulma
Characters of different types of kustha
Prognosis
On diagnosis of śoşa (phthisis)
Causes of phthisis
Specific etiological factors
Rājayakşma
Prodromal symptoms
2
22222
Eleven symptoms
Prognosis
Chapter-VII
On diagnosis of unmäda (insanity)
260
Types of insanity
261
Persons prone to insanity and pathogenesis
261
Definition of insanity
261
Prodromal symptoms
261
Specific features
263
Management
263
Exogenous insanity
Characters and management
Prognosis
264
Etiology, pathogenesis and symptoms
264
Prodromal symptoms
Chapter-IV
267
On diagnosis of prameha (Disorders of urine) Non-manifestation or otherwise of disorder
Etiology, pathogenesis, types and characters of kaphaja prameha
Chapter-VIII
On diagnosis of apasmāra (epilepsy)
Types of epilepsy
Persons prone to epilepsy and its
pathogenesis
Definition of epilepsy
Prodromal symptoms
Mythical origin of diseases
Specific features
Management
Pittaja prameha
Vātaja prameha including madhu- meha (diabetes mellitus)
Prognosis
General observations about diagnosis
Chapter-1
On specific features of Rasa
301 301
Rasa-dosa dosa equation
Significaure of Viminasthana
103
Dravya Prabhava
303 COE
Ol
Ghee
303
Honey
Three ambstances not to be used
303
xxxiy
3. VIMANASTHANA
(Section of specific features)
The root cause
Gradual deterioration of life-span
Life-span predetermined or not
Timely or unitimely death Significance of the use of hot
water in fever
Remedy contrary to etiology Three types of desaturation
Place of three types
Chapter-IV
excessively
304 305
Samya (uitability
) Specific factors of methodieting
On specific features of the threefold sources of knowledge about disease characters
305
Prakyti (nature)
305
Three sources of knowledge
Karana (processing)
Samyoga (combination)
305
Authority (testimony)
Raši (quantity)
306
Perception
306 306
Inference
Desa (place) Käla (time)
Examination of disease with all the sources of knowledge collectively
Upayogasamstha (rules for use)
306
Upayoktä (Consumer)
306
Facts known from authority
Method of dieting
306
Facts known from perception
Chapter-II
Facts known from inference
On specific features of three portioned belly
Chapter-V
Making three portions of belly Quantity of food-appropriate
309
On specific features of srotas (channel
Definition of Srotas
and inappropriate
310
Origin of Srotas and characters of their morbidity
Ama-pradosa
311
Visūcikä and alasaka (including amavisa) pathogenesis, sympt-
Synonyms of srotas
oms and prognosis Management
311
311
Amāśaya (stomach)
313
outbreak of epidemics
Collection of drugs before
destruction of Community) On specific feature of epidemics (Cousing
Chapter-III
Preventive measures
Characters of their derangement
Common factors involved in epidemics
various angles
Role of dosas in pathology of Srotas
Causes of morbidity in Srotas General characters of morbidity in Srotas
Colour and size of Srotas
Management of the affections of Srotas
On specific features of the groups of dise Classification of disorders from
Chapter-VI
numerable
Disorders innumerable and doșa
Three aggravating factors for
types of dosas
Alt
Cir
Intensetion of psychic and somatic factors
335 335
317 318
319
322
Four types of Agni
secondary disorders
Difference between primary and Constant association of psychic dosas
Initiation of the student
Instructions to the student
352
Method of discussion
352
336
Friendly and hostile discussions
356
356
Normaley and human constitution Instant vitiation of väta in vitala Management according to constitution
336 337
Three types of opponents
35
23
23
23
4
Instant vitiation of pitta in pittala
persons and its management
337
Two and three types of assembly
35 35
Means to subdue the inferior opponent Result of discussion
35
338
Terms used in course of discussion Väda (debate) and its two types
35
Instant vitiation of kapha in persons and its management
36
338
Pratijñā (Proposition)
3
Importance of the knowledge of all šiesmala persons and its management disorders, management and drugs
339
Chapter-VII
On specific feature of the diseased etc.
Person diseased severely or other-wise
340
Importance of intensive examina-
tion of the patient
Pratisthapană (counter-establishment)
Drstänta (instance) Hetu (reason)
Upanaya (correlation)
Uttara (rejoinder)
Four types of Siddhanta (theory) Four types of Sabda (word)
Sthapana (establishment)
339
340
Krimis (parasites)-pathogenic and non-pathogenic
Pratyaksa (perception)
Anumana (inference)
341
Aitihya (tradition)
Four types of parasites according to location
Aupamya (analogy)
341
Samsaya (doubt)
Their etiology, location, form.
Prayojana (object)
colour, name, effects and remedy
342
General principles of treatment
Detailed therapeutic formulations
343
344
Methods of elimination
344
Formulations for Prakrtivighata (destroying the environment)
346
Chapter-VIII
On specific features of therapeutic management of diseases
Selection of the treatise
350
Selection of the teacher
351
Behaviour and duty of the student
351
Means of the knowledge of entire treatise (subject)
351
Method of study
351
Method of teaching
352
Selection of the student
352
Savyabhicāra (uncertain statement)
Jijñāsā (inquiry)
Vyavasaya (decision)
Arthaprāpti (acquisition of
implied sense)
Sambhava (source of origin)
Anuyojya (questionable statement)
Ananuyojya (unquestionable statement)
Anuyoga (question)
Pratyanuyoga (counter-question)
Vākyadosa (syntactical defect)
Vākyapraśamšā (syntactical
commendability)
Chala (knavery) and its two types
Ahetu (fallacious reason) and its
three types
Ctr
437
38
Cause of immediate demh of the disorders due to wrath of gods
Timely or untimely death
Full life span and the causes of its attainment
432
Upavistaka mud näpodaca abnormal types of fouras and their tanagement Management in condition of
abortion or miscarriage
453
454
non quickening of foerus Management of adevaru and constipation in pregnant women
Chapter-VII
On Enumeration of body parts
Layers of skin
455
Signs and symptoms of the woman with dead foetus and its managemen
Broad divisions of body
455
Number of bones
455
Sensory and motor organs
457 457
Seats of vital breath
Viscera
457
Parts of the body in detail
457
Nine major orifices
459
Ligaments, veins, arteries, muscles, vital parts, bone-joints, minute blood vessels, hairs, beard-
mustaches
459
Entities measureable with anjali
Division of body according to
459
five mahābhūtas
460
Šarīra-paramāņu (cells)
Chapter-VIII
Monthly regimens in ease of normal foetal growth
Construction of maternity home and its
accessories and personnel Admission of the woman to the maternity home and waiting for parturition
Signs and symptoms of the approaching time for parturition
Management during labour Measures to expel placenta
Neonatal cara
460
Cutting of the Umbilical cord Jätakarma (neonatal rites)
Protective measures for mother and child
Code of healthy conduct for mother Management of the puerperant
On principles of procreation Preparation of male and
female partners for coitus
Method of coitus
461
462
Management according to the
Naming of the child
desire for son
463
Bodily characters of longevity
Sacrificial rite for the desired son
464
Examination of wet-nurse
Performances to fulfil the
Excellence of breasts
desire for a son
465
Excellence of breast milk and its
Causes of particular complexion and psyche of the progeny
normal abnormal characters
465
Galacto-depurant measures
Pumsavana (measures which help procreating male progeny)
Galactogogues
466
Causing the baby to suckle
Measures which stabilise foetus
467
Construction of nursery
Factors damaging the foetus
467
Cara of bedding, clothing of the baby
Management of the pregnant woman
Amulets and toys
Measures to check threatened
Management of child in case of 
Chapter-t
INGRIVASTHANA ather
of he and death
Chapter-III
On palpable entities
of pr
492
Diffime
тура
401
Normal and abe
495
Normal and shervrat seters
493
Chapter 11
Pyes, me, brath at Cornain Deal costating
Chapter-VIIT
On flowered person
Death always preveded by fatal sit Various types of sinell indicating death
406
Abnormal tastes indicating death
Abnormal and fatal signs relating to palpation
497
Signe of fatal paittika disorder and yakama
The diseases incurable on loss of Auditory hallucination streng
496
On blockiss sign ete. Aboeremat eyes
Chapter-EX
498
Test of sputum, stool and semen in wu Sankhaka-the fatal disease
Examination of respiration, carotids, teeth, eyelashes, eyes, hairs, body hairs, abdomen.
Chapter-X
nails and fingers
499
On signs of imminent death Various conditions indicating imminent death
Chapter-IV
On sense organs
Chapter-XI
Fatal signs relating to vision Fatal signs relating to other senses Chapter-V
On poor digestion etc.
Signs indicating death within a year, six months and a month Absence or excess of mahābhūtas
On prodromal signs
Fatal prodroma of phthisis, fever, internal haemorrhage and gulma Fatal prodroma of kustha, prameha, insanitiy, epilepsy
and opisthotonus Dreams indicating imminent death
Cause and types of dreams Fruitless and otherwise dreams
Various fatal conditions
On shadow and lustre Abnormal types of shadow
On physical adnormalities
Definition of 'Arişta'
On cowdung-like powder etc.
Signs indicating death by a
month, a fortnight
Bad signs relating to messengers
Protentous signs in the way Protentous signs in patient's house
Summary of the signs indicating death
Imminent death not to be
disclosed uncalled for Signs indicating recovery of the patient

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