[INDOLOGY] help with a phrase

[Shrikant Bahulkar]

Here is the verse Dominik referred to:

rogas tu doṣa-vaiṣamyaṃ doṣa-sāmyam a-roga-tā |
[nijāgantu-vibhāgena tatra rogā dvi-dhā smṛtāḥ || 20 ||]
Vāgbhata, Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya, Sūtrasthāna, I.20

Shrikant

On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 at 03:03, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> I'm just seeing this today.  Shrikant nailed it and Vitus found the best
> SS citation.  I can't improve on anything.
>
> Vāgbhaṭa says, somewhere in Sūtrasthāna 1 of the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya, that
> doṣasāmyam is health and doṣavaiṣamyam is illness.
>
> In Canto 12 of the Buddhacarita, when Arāḍa Kālāma meets the Buddha, they
> enquire politely about each other's dhātusāmya.  (doṣa and dhātu often mean
> the same.)  Olivelle 2008, Clay Library:
>
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>
> Best,
> Dominik
>
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