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Susruta has here raised a very prominent question (SS.Su.24:11) is the relation between the three Dosas on the one hand and the diseases, such as fever, etc. on the other, a constant and inseparable one (like that of the sun and its rays or the moon and moon-light or fire and heat) or have they seperate existences (like a cloth and its weaver or a pot and the potter or an arnament and the jeweller)? If the farmer, then all human beings should be considered as constantly ill, because there is constant existence of the three Dosas in their bodies. If the letter, i.e. if the Dosas and diseases have seperate existence, then there should be separate manifestations of the symptoms of deranged Dosas and of the receptive diseases, instead of their simultaneous manifestation as is actually the case; and in that case the proposition that the three Dosas are at the root of all diseases will also fall to the ground. To clarify the issue, Susruta says that diseases are not produced without the association of the three Dosas and still there is no constant and inseparable relation between them. And he cites two fine examples to make his meaning quite clear. He says that just as lightning, Sterm, thunder and rain cannot happen independently of the sky (i.e. cloud), and yet they sometimes do or do not occur even with the presence of a cloud; and just as a wave or a bupple in water is nothing but water in some particular farm, they cannot be produced independently of water but

309 are not farmed at all times even if there is water present, they can only be produced in the water when there is any predisposing cause, neither constantly related nor perpectually separated; the production of a disease by Dosas depends upon some predisposing cause. - so also the Dosas and diseases are Charaka has also told when to expect a disease and when not. He says (CS.Ni.4:4-5) that when the Nidanas (the predisposing causes which vitiate a Dosa), the Dosas (the three vitiators, - Vaya, Pitta and Kapha) and the Dusyas (the Dhatus and upa-dhatus which are vitiated by the Dosas) are mutually connected together, there is production of a disease. When there is no successive connection between the three, there is no disease. And when the connection is not thorough or complete or the causes are weak, there is production of a disease of a mild type, all the symptoms being not manifested. Here we notes the interesting fact that the Nidanas cannot directly vitiate the Dhatus; they must first vitiate the Dosas and it is these latter which will then affect the Dhatus and thus bring about a disease. The Nidanas may be the indirect causes of a disease, but it is the Dosas which are the direct and ultimate cause of a disease.