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(d) DOSAS AND DISEASES AS CAUSE AND EFFECT
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,
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they cannot be produced independently of water but