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Swami Samantabhadra.
A great disease called 'Bhasmaka' arose. The origin of this disease clearly indicates that at that time, the phlegm in Samantabhadra's body had become depleted, while both wind and bile had increased; because when phlegm is depleted, and bile, along with wind, increases and becomes aggravated, it makes the gastric fire extremely intense, powerful, and sharp with its heat and intensity. This fire, with its sharpness, scorches the food in the body, rejecting it and reducing it to ashes in an instant. This extremely sharp state of the gastric fire is called 'Bhasmaka' disease. If this disease is neglected, that is, if one does not consume sufficient quantities of heavy, oily, cool, sweet, and phlegmatic food and drink, or until one is satisfied, it will also burn the blood, flesh, and other tissues of the body, causing great weakness, thirst, sweating, burning sensation, fainting, and many other complications. Finally, it leaves the patient on the verge of death. +
* Brahmaneimidatta also mentions the same in his 'Aradhanakathakoṣa'. As follows:
Durdharaanekacharitraratnaratnaakaro mahaan | Yaavadasta sukhm dheerastaavattaskaayake'bhavat || Asadvedyamahakarmodayarduhkhdayakaha | Teevrakashtpradadh kashtam bhasmakavyaadhisanjnakaha ||
Samantabhadrakatha, verse no. 4,5. + Kataadirukshannabhujaan naaraanaam kshine kafe maarutapittavridhdhau |
Atipravridhdhah pavanaanvito'gnibhuktam kshananasmakaroti yasmaat | Tasmaadasau bhasmakasanjnako'bhudupekshito'yam pachate cha dhaatun |
-iti Bhaavaprakashah.