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The
Suvarnabhasottamastitra's
parivarta"
and
Ayurveda:
Similar
in
Form
but
Different
in
Theory
HiNo
Eun
1.
Descriptive
Similarities
between
Suv
andAyurvedic
Ilexts
In
the
"VyfidhipraSamana-parivarta,"the
16th
chapter ofthe
Sanskrit
version ofthe
Suvampabhdsottamastitra
(Suv),
a medicaldiscussion
canbe
fbund,
whichEmmerick
[1996:
78]
translates
asfo11ows:
i)(S)Therainy season
is
seen tobe
three
months, auturnnis
saidtobe
three,winterlikewise
three,
andthreetoo the hot season. 7;ltusthe succession
oftnonths
(forms)
sixperiods.A
yearissaid tohave
twetvemonths. (6>...
The
monthlyperiod
is
tobe
viewedin
twos.Food
anddrink
areconsumedaccordingly. And the doctor,hisskill,and the
period,
have
been
explained. (7)Andthe
senses andelements change
during
the
division
ofthe year.The
senses changing, thevariousdiseases
arisefbr
corporeal beings.{S)Inthatcase, the doctormust have skill concerning thefburfbld
division
into
threemonths, thesix
periods
inthe(bimonthly)
division,and the six elements. (9)Illnessesdue
toexcess ofwind oecur
in
therainy season. Disturbanceofthe bileistaught(to
occur) inautumn.Likewise,
(illness)
due
toa combination(arises)
in
winter-time. Illnessesdue
toexcess ofphlegmarise
in
thehot
season. OO)Intherainy season, the(characteristic)
tastes(are)
fatty,
warrn, saltyand sour;
in
autumn seasons,fatty,
sweet and cold;in
winter-time, sweet, sour and fatty;and insummer-time, rough, warm and
bitter.
"DExcess ofphlegm erupts as seon as onehas
eaten. Exeess ofbile erupts duringdigestlon.
Excess ofwind erupts as soon as onehas
digested.
Inthismanner dothe
threeelements erupt ('2)Givestrengthening toone whohas
wind, apurgative
toremovebile,
in
thecase of a combination
(give)
something endowed withthe
threequalities,and one should usean emetic
during
aperiodof(excess)
phlegm. "3)One mustknow
in
which periodsexcess ofwind,bileor a combination,
(or)
excess ofphlegm(occur).
Thatfbod,
drink,
or medicine must bescribed which accords with thetime,theelement and the person.
(Prose
is
in
italics,
and verse numbers ('")were addedby
the
author)First
thertus
(seasons)
aredefined,
fbllowed
by
the
disorders
fbund
in
the
medicaltheory
of tridosa comprised of vata(wind),
pitta
(bile),
andkclpha/Slesman
(phlegm).
Then,
remedies and rasas
(tastes)
fbr
each season areprescribed.
The
fbrm
ofthis
passage,
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TheSuvar4abhdsottamasatra's"VyAdhipraSamana-parivarta"and
iiLyurveda
(E,
HiNo)though simplified, corresponds
to
that
of the seasonal regimendescriptions
commonlyfbund
in
orthodoxAyurvedic
documents.
2)Thus,
this
passage
has
been
consideredto
have
been
extractedfrom,
ordirectly
infiuenced
by
theAyurvedic
documents.
2.
Rtu
andRasa
.
However,
Suv's
description
is
different
from
orthodoxAyurvedic
documents
whenit
comes tospecific concepts.Stzv
introduces
four
and six rtusas technicalterms,but
it
actu-ally uses onlythe
fbrmer
in
its
medical explanation.In
contrast, orthodoxAyurvedic
docu-ments use six
rtus.3)
If
directly
based
onAyurvedic
documents,
theregimen wouldbe
de-scribed using thesix
rtus,
but
thatis
not thecase.In
thisconnection,Xuanzang
Eelee
writesin
his
Datang
Xlyu1'i
Ji<gilgrkE'e
that
there
werethree
concepts ofthe seasonsin
India:
thecommon notion of six seasons, and the two understandingsfound
in
theBuddhist
can-non of
three
seasons andfbur
seasons. 4)wnile
this
single record cannotprove
the
fbur-rtu
concept tobe
distinctive
amongBuddhists,
we can affirmthat
the
concept of seasonsin
Suv
is
not simply copiedfrom
Ayurvedic
texts.In
addition,Suv's
description
of rasasloosely
correspondsto
the
Ayurvedic
seasonal regimen althoughits
concept ofrtu
differs
(fig.
1)
.However,
the
rasasSuv
enumeratesdo
not match thedefinition
of thesadrasa
(six
rasas)
found
in
orthodoxAyurveda.
5>Moreover,
supposedly earlierMahdyana
textssuch asthe
Da
zhidulun
JJ<rwRwh
6) andMahoparinirvduamahdstitra
7)mention theconcept ofsa4rasa.
Thus
Sletv's
theory
of nasadoes
not coincide withthat
ofAyurvedic
texts,
nores-pecially
closer than thatof otherBuddhist
texts.CSSa.6.4-SO(seasonalregimen),[Sa.20.11-19](sortsof
diseases).sadrasa(Sti.1.66)tt VyEdhiSamal)a-parivartainSuv
ptude$adiserderedrasaapproprlate' remedy rtudosadisorderedrasaapproprlate' remedy
vasantakapha[katuka,tikta,kapiya, tiksuqa,usoa,nik$a]varnana-gris.makaphakatuka.niksa<forkas9ya?), usl)a vamana gTi$ma[pitta]madhura,Sita.dTava, snigdha varsayata,etc.am)a,layapa,snigdha [madhura,u$n.a] allremedies
[sthipana,
anuvEsana]varsa'vfitaamta,laya4a,snigdha,usrpasamb;haila Sarad'plttamadhura,tikta,laghu, Sita,satiktaka 'vlreeana,raktamoksanaSarad'Plttamadhllra,snigdha,gita 'vlrecana hemantav5taamla.Iava4a,snigdha[madhura.us4a]
[sthapana, anuvfisana] gigiravAtaamla,tava4a,snigdha[rnadhura,uspa]
anuvdsana]hemanta'sarluupatamadhllra,amla,snigdha[sthapana,
'tngurpopapanna
Fig.1Seasonalregimen inCS and Suv,
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"VyadhipraSainana-parivarta"and
Ayurveda
(E.
HiNo)(179)
3.
7)ldosa
In
Ayurvedic
texts,
it
is
said thatthere are62
saipnipata(combinations
ofdisorders)
,but
theirparticular
syrnptoms are not assigned to specific seasons.8)By
contrast,in
Bud-dhist
texts
we oftenfind
404
types
ofdiseases, which are seen as arisingfrom
the
fbur
ele-ments
(mahabhfita)
orthe
dhatus.
In
this
framework,
eachis
assigned adbsa:
vatato
air(vdyu),pitta
to
fire
(tojas),
kcrpha
to
water(op),
and sapanipatato
earth(prthivi).9)
In
fact,
cthatu anddosa
aredifferent
namesfbr
the same thing;dhatu
is
the term used tode-scribe elements cornprising the
body,
whereasdosa
is
used when they are the causes ofdisease,
Thus,
in
the abovepassage,
dhatulmahabhtita
anddhditufdosa
are used inter-changeably. iO)In
theBuddhist
conception of404diseases,
it
is
quite
common tojuxtapose tridosaand samnipata.Suv
supposedly also adoptedthis
manner.4.
Sadduntu
-
Suv
mentionsFa`id,
hatu
(six
elements)in
the above-cited8th
verse, as well asin
theprose
fbllowing
the verses. ii)In
the1lth
verse, tri-dhdtuare mentioned asdosa.
While
in
thiscontext sa4duatu mustinclude
tri-dhatuldosa,in
orthodoxAyurveda
such a conceptioncannot
be
fbund.
i2)Thus
wehave
no choicebut
tounderstand these three(lhatuldosa asthree
d];atulmahabhata,
andsa4duatu
asthe
classicalBuddhist
concept ofthe
elements ofbody,
i.e.,
earth, water,fire,
air,void(aka-s'a),
and cognition(vij'n"dna),
whichincludes
the13)
three
dhatus.
5.
Conclusion
As
seen above, while themedical regimenin
Sletv
is
similar toAyurvedic
textsin
fbrm,
it
differs
in
content.Its
understandings ofseasons, etiologies, and theconcept of theelements ofthe
body
are closerto
classicBuddhist
theory.
There
aretwo
possible
reasonsfbr
this:
Suv's
seasonal regimen couldbe
unique toBuddhism,
belonging
toaline
of transmissiondifferent
from
orthodoxAyurveda,
i4) orit
couldbe
animitation
onlyin
thefbrm
of anAyurvedic
seasonal regimen.Notes1
)
Nob.,
pp.178-180,Slci.,
pp.292-297,Tib.,
pp.139-141,ft
35lc-352a,
fi
395a,
X
448a.
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The
Stivarpabhdsottamastitra's
"VyadhipraSamana-parivarta"and
iELyurveda
(E.
HiNo)
2)
es
SUtrasthana
(Stt)
6,
ss
SU.
6,
AHSU.
3,
XS105ff:
3)
es
Sa.
6.
4-7,ss
Stt.
6.
5-9,
AH
Sa.
3.1-2.Cfl
es
Sn.
7.46,Yano
[1988:
55].See
alsoKane
[1958:
667].4)
T.
no. 2087, vol. 51,875c-876a.
See
alsoAKBh III89,p.
177,AKVIIL
8l,
p.
333.Three
seasons:P'7n.
L
III.1.1, Sij2]ntti
Ugfire,
T.no. 1428,vol. 22,830b,etc.;four
seasons: foyiJ'ingVxEff,
T.no. 793,vol. 17, 737a,AKBh III.15,p.127,LaL 15,p.211,etc.On
the Buddhistcalendar, see Meri[1999].
5)
CIS
Sa.
1.66,26.9.6)
T.no. 1509,vol. 25,60a,attributedtoNaganiuna(c.
150-25e),possibly
compiledby
KLimarajiva(40240S);
proto-Sorv
mustprecede
&
(412-421)
but
thelegend
She
Moteng
zatswa
preachedSuv
(-75)
could notbe
thehistorical
fact.
7)
See
Shimoda
[1993:
158,
185],
Nakagawa[1989].
8)
(;SSit.I7.
41-43,
Vimiinasthana6.
Il;
ss regardsblood
(So"ita)
as the4thdosa.(SU.
1.20) enumerates 15sapanipa-tas(SU.
21.25.).9)
Juxtaposingtridosa and samnipfita:
SgV
IV,
p.230,ANII,
p.87,V,
p.11O,Da
bore
boiuomiduoJ'ing
JkmeZutee
MeK,
T.
no. 220, vol. 6,695c, etc.; 404 diseases out Qf4 causes: Muxing claodiJ'ingiS
fiMlkpt,
T.no.
606,
vol. 15,188c, 209b,Mohe sengqi ltiig:nytee
itre,
T.no. 1425,vol. 22,316c,Da zhidutun,
T. no.1509,
voL 25,119c,469c,478b,etc.;only 404diseases:
VimatakirtinirdeSa(Study
Group
onBud-dhist
Sanskrit
LiteratuTe
in
theInstitute
for
Comprehensive
Studies
ofBuddhismin
foisho
University,
ed., Tbkyo:ThishoUniversityPress,2004,ch. II,p.68),
Bodhicaryavatarqpafiiika(P.
L.Vaidya,ed.,Darbhanga:
The MithilaInstitute,1960,IIv. 55),etc.See
also Fukunaga[1972:
56-61],Demieville[1937:
249-253,
255-257],
Lamotte[1976:
36
n.26],
Shimoda[1993:
45
n.54].
10)
MorxiugdZrodiJ'ing
209b,
Da zhidularn
469c,
see also AKBhIII.
44,
p.157,
Habata
[1989].
11)
Nob.,
p. 178,l.
1,p.180,1.
13,Ski.,
p.292,p.297.12)
Dhbtu hastwo meanings: dosa and sevenbodi-ly
tissues.See
Yano[1988:
15
n.40].
X
translatedsaqtd.hatu
inthe8th
verse as1
git
(seven
dhatus).13)
Ex.AKBh I.28,
p.
18.es
alsopresents
sa4dhntuas consisting ofearth, water,fire,
air,yoid, and atman(SU.
8.
9,
2S.
14).Newhere
elsein
Suv
is
saddudtufbund,
despite
dhbtu
being
usedin
"Relic"(ch.
2)andin
"FourElements
ofthe Body"(ch.
5).14)
SeeG.Zysk[1991].
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