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Ashtanga-hridaya-samhita [sanskrit]
273,418 words | ISBN-10: 8121800226 | ISBN-13: 9788121800226
The Sanskrit edition of the Ashtanga-hridaya-samhita, including the commentaries Sarvangasundara and Ayurvedarasayana. The Astangahrdaya-samhita deals with the eight-fold divisions of Ayurveda: (l) Medicine, (2) The science of the special diseases of the supra-clavicular parts of the body (viz. eye, ear, nose, mouth, throat etc.), (3) Surgery, (4) Toxicology, (5) Psycho-therapy, (6) Pediatrics, (7) Rejuvenation and (8) Virilification. Original titles: Vāgbhaṭa Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (वाग्भट अष्टाङ्गहृदयसंहिता), Aruṇadatta Sarvāṅgasundarā (अरुणदत्त सर्वाङ्गसुन्दरा), Hemādri Āyurvedarasāyana (हेमाद्रि आयुर्वेदरसायन).
Section 32
kṣaṇādirvyādhyavasthā ca kālo bheṣajayogakṛt||24||
Commentary: Aruṇadatta’s Sarvāṅgasundarā
kālo dvividhaḥ, kṣaṇādilakṣaṇo vyādhyavasthālakṣaṇaśca| bheṣajasyauṣadhasya, yogaṃ karoti| tadarthasampādanasāmarthyaṃ karotītyarthaḥ| bheṣajasya yogo bheṣajayogaḥ, taṃ karoti| kṣaṇādiḥ prasiddhaḥ| ādigrahaṇāllavatruṭimuhūrtayāmāhorātrapakṣamāsartvayanasaṃvatsarāṇāṃ parigrahaḥ| kṣaṇādikālasyodāharaṇam| yathā"pūrvāhṇe vamanaṃ deyaṃ madhyāhne tu virecanam| madhyāhne kiñcidāvṛtte bastiṃ dadyādvicakṣaṇaḥ||" vyādhyavasthā sāmanirāmamṛdumadhyatīkṣṇatvāttattadyogyauṣadhavisṛṣṭiḥ| yathā (ca,ci.a.3/140, hṛ.ci.a.1/21)"laṅghanaṃ svedanaṃ kālo yavāgvastiktako rasaḥ| malānāṃ pācanāni syuryathāvasthaṃ krameṇa vā||" yathā (ca.ci.a.30/287)- "jvare peyāḥ kaṣāyāśca sarpiḥ kṣīraṃ virecanam| tryahaṃ vā ṣaḍahaṃ yuṃjyādvīkṣya doṣabalābalam||" yathā (hṛ.ci.a.1/44)- "mṛdurjvaro laghurdehaścalitāśca malā yadā| acirajvaritasyāpi bheṣajaṃ yojayettadā||" asyāmavasthāyāṃ dattamauṣadhamārogyāya bhavati|