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Caraka-saṃhitā (the text alone) 5.1.7

CS 5.1.7

तत्र लक्षणनिमित्ता नाम सा यस्याः शरीरे लक्षणान्येव हेतुभूतानि भवन्ति दैवात् लक्षणानि हि कानिचिच् छरीरोपनिबद्धानि भवन्ति यानि हि तस्मिंस्तस्मिन् काले तत्राधिष्ठानमासाद्य तां तां विकृतिमुत्पादयन्ति लक्ष्यनिमित्ता तु सा यस्या उपलभ्यते निमित्तं यथोक्तं निदानेषु निमित्तानुरूपा तु निमित्तार्थानुकारिणी या ताम् अनिमित्तां निमित्तमायुषः प्रमाणज्ञानस्येच्छन्ति भिषजो भूयश् चायुषः क्षयनिमित्तां प्रेतलिङ्गानुरूपां याम् आयुषो ऽन्तर्गतस्य ज्ञानार्थमुपदिशन्ति धीराः यां चाधिकृत्य पुरुषसंश्रयाणि मुमूर्षतां लक्षणान्युपदेक्ष्यामः इत्युद्देशः तं विस्तरेणानुव्याख्यास्यामः

tatra lakṣaṇanimittā nāma sā yasyāḥ śarīre lakṣaṇānyeva hetubhūtāni bhavanti daivāt lakṣaṇāni hi kānicic charīropanibaddhāni bhavanti yāni hi tasmiṃstasmin kāle tatrādhiṣṭhānamāsādya tāṃ tāṃ vikṛtimutpādayanti lakṣyanimittā tu sā yasyā upalabhyate nimittaṃ yathoktaṃ nidāneṣu nimittānurūpā tu nimittārthānukāriṇī yā tām animittāṃ nimittamāyuṣaḥ pramāṇajñānasyecchanti bhiṣajo bhūyaś cāyuṣaḥ kṣayanimittāṃ pretaliṅgānurūpāṃ yām āyuṣo 'ntargatasya jñānārthamupadiśanti dhīrāḥ yāṃ cādhikṛtya puruṣasaṃśrayāṇi mumūrṣatāṃ lakṣaṇānyupadekṣyāmaḥ ityuddeśaḥ taṃ vistareṇānuvyākhyāsyāmaḥ

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) 5.1.7, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/CS/5.1.7), 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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