CHAPTER LXVI.
Now we shall discourse on the chapter which (deals with and) is called the different modifications (combinations) of the different Doshas— Dosha-Bheda-vikalpa-námádhyáya.
Revered Suś'ruta, the son of Viśvámitra, asks (the following to) the high-minded Divodása, well-versed in all the eight divisions of Áyurveda, with intellect sharp and as deep as an ocean, as it were, and with all the difficulties in the meanings of the Śástras fully solved. The question is— It has been already said that there are sixty-two*[1] varieties of the Doshas, but how are they divided when taken one, two or all the three at a time? 2 — 3.
On hearing his word the great sage and king (Divodása) with all his difficulties solved was greatly pleased and thus narrated the true conditions to Suśruta. 4.
The three Doshas, the (seven) Dhátus, feces and urine — these, in their normal state, hold together the corporeal frame in conjunction with the (six Rasas necessary (for the constitution). 5.
Puru'ha or human body has sixteen sub-strata †[2] The Pránas (viz. the organs of sense) are eleven in number while the number of diseases is one thousand one hundred and twenty and that of elementary sub-
- ↑ * The reference is to chapter LXIII, but there the number is sixty-three and not sixty-two. The three Dhátus Váyu, Pitta and Kapha, in their normal state, cannot properly be called Doshas. The state in which all the three Dhátus are in their normal state, is said to be the 63 rd. combination (see also para. 8 below).
- ↑ † The sixteen sub-strata are the five elementary principles, (viz. — Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether) and the eleven sense-organs.
