Atisāra
Atisāra · ati-sāra
Grammar: masculine noun; the name of a disease.
Meaning: diarrhoea, a disease of the bowels, one of the diseases of the body in the teaching on treatment.
In the scriptures: in the Cikitsā Prakaraṇa, the section on treatment, Bhagavān Janārdana in the form of a brāhmaṇa teaches Mālāvatī, who has seen Kāla, Yama, Mṛtyukanyā and the host of diseases. He names the diseases in order: pāṇḍu, kāmala, kushṭha, śotha (glossed as jalodara, dropsy), plīha, śūla, jvara, atisāra, grahaṇī, kāsa, vraṇa, halīmaka, mūtrakṛcchra, gulma born of disorder of the blood, vishameha, kubja, goda, galagaṇḍaka, bhramarī, sannipāta and vishūcī. With their kinds and sub-kinds these make sixty-four kinds of disease. All these diseases are sons of Mṛtyukanyā, and Jarā (old age) is her daughter. Jarā roams the whole earth with her brothers, the diseases; but on seeing one who keeps yama and niyama and knows the means of preventing disease, all of them flee as snakes flee on seeing Garuḍa (Brahma Vaivarta Purāṇa, Brahma Khaṇḍa, Chapter 16).
Related terms: Roga · Jvara · Grahaṇī · Mṛtyukanyā · Jarā
Sources
- Brahma Vaivarta Purāṇa, Brahma Khaṇḍa, Chapter 16