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Caraka-saṃhitā (the text alone) 4.3.16

CS 4.3.16

आत्रेय उवाच पुरस्तादेतत् प्रतिज्ञातं सत्त्वं जीवं स्पृक्शरीरेणाभिसंबध्नातीति यस्मात्तु समुदायप्रभवः सन् स गर्भो मनुष्यविग्रहेण जायते मनुष्यो मनुष्यप्रभव इत्युच्यते तद्वक्ष्यामः भूतानां चतुर्विधा योनिर् भवति जराय्वण्डस्वेदोद्भिदः तासां खलु चतसृणामपि योनीनामेकैका योनिरपरिसंख्येयभेदा भवति भूतानाम् आकृतिविशेषापरिसंख्येयत्वात् तत्र जरायुजानाम् अण्डजानां च प्राणिनामेते गर्भकरा भावा यां यां योनिमापद्यन्ते तस्यां तस्यां योनौ तथातथारूपा भवन्ति यथा कनकरजतताम्रत्रपुसीसकान्यासिच्यमानानि तेषु तेषु मधूच्छिष्टविग्रहेषु तानि यदा मनुष्यबिम्बमापद्यन्ते तदा मनुष्यविग्रहेण जायन्ते तस्मात् समुदायप्रभवः सन् गर्भो मनुष्यविग्रहेण जायते मनुष्यश्च मनुष्यप्रभव उच्यते तद्योनित्वात्

ātreya uvāca purastādetat pratijñātaṃ sattvaṃ jīvaṃ spṛkśarīreṇābhisaṃbadhnātīti yasmāttu samudāyaprabhavaḥ san sa garbho manuṣyavigraheṇa jāyate manuṣyo manuṣyaprabhava ityucyate tadvakṣyāmaḥ bhūtānāṃ caturvidhā yonir bhavati jarāyvaṇḍasvedodbhidaḥ tāsāṃ khalu catasṛṇāmapi yonīnāmekaikā yoniraparisaṃkhyeyabhedā bhavati bhūtānām ākṛtiviśeṣāparisaṃkhyeyatvāt tatra jarāyujānām aṇḍajānāṃ ca prāṇināmete garbhakarā bhāvā yāṃ yāṃ yonimāpadyante tasyāṃ tasyāṃ yonau tathātathārūpā bhavanti yathā kanakarajatatāmratrapusīsakānyāsicyamānāni teṣu teṣu madhūcchiṣṭavigraheṣu tāni yadā manuṣyabimbamāpadyante tadā manuṣyavigraheṇa jāyante tasmāt samudāyaprabhavaḥ san garbho manuṣyavigraheṇa jāyate manuṣyaśca manuṣyaprabhava ucyate tadyonitvāt

Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.

Sanskrit only: no published translation is held for this verse.

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Cite as: Caraka-saṃhitā (the text alone) 4.3.16, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/CS/4.3.16), after Digital Corpus of Sanskrit: Carakasaṃhitā, Sthānas 1–5 (sūtra, nidāna, vimāna, śārīra, indriya) whole and of….

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Digital Corpus of Sanskrit: Carakasaṃhitā — Sthānas 1–5 (sūtra, nidāna, vimāna, śārīra, indriya) whole and of the cikitsā (6) chapters 1–5, 22, 23 and 30, from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit; kalpa (7) and siddhi (8) from Sanskrit Wikisource. Cikitsā 6–21 and 24–29 are not held. Reference = sthāna.adhyāya.verse; the first two chapters of the cikitsā are in four quarters each (6.1.3.12 = chapter 1, quarter 3, verse 12). | Kalpa and siddhi: Sanskrit Wikisource, चरकसंहिता (see content/wikisource-import-report.md).

Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (Oliver Hellwig, 2010–2021), CC BY 4.0 — https://github.com/OliverHellwig/sanskrit. Text as typed there from the printed edition; Devanagari generated mechanically from its IAST. | Sthānas 7–8: Sanskrit Wikisource, public-domain text, page markup CC BY-SA 4.0.

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