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a series of reflexes ). There it gets mixed up first with a gelatinous mucus (phenibhūtakapham) and then it becomes acidualated by further chemical action of a digestine juice (vidāhādamlatām gatah),83 i. e. gastric juice, as a result of peristallic waves in the plyloric region.
An amount of chyme is pushed by samāna vāyu (i. e. due to the contraction of stomach ) into the pittāśaya by means of the grahani. nādi and next into the small intestine (āma pakkāśaya ).84 There bile (pitta ) converts the chyme into chyle by peristalic contractions and churning movements.85 The essence of chyle (sūkşmabhāga ) from the small intestine is carried through by prāņavāyu along a Dhamani trunk (thoracic duct?) first to the heart and thence to the liver (and the spleen ).87 In the liver the pigment (the colouring substance ) in the bile acts on the essence of the chyle, especially on the tejas -substance therein, and gives it a red pigment, transforms it into blood, but the grosser part of chyle (Sthūlabhāga) runs along the Dhamanis, being carried by the vyāna vāyu (biomotor force ) all over the body 86.
After the formation of blood, the essence of the chyle in the blood, acted on by vāyu and Māmsāgni (the flesh forming metabolic heat) forms the flesh - tissue. 87 The grosser part of the flesh - tissue thus formed proceeds to feed or replenish the flesh- tissue all over the body. The finer essence of flesh in the blood in the chyle, acted
83. "Adau şadrasasamappannam madhrīubhūamirayet, phenibhūtam kapham yatam
vidāhādamlatām gatah / Caraka-Dridhavala Samhita quoted by Aruņa in his commentary on Vāgbhara ;
Vide Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus, p. 207. 84. “Samāna iti yo anilo agnisakha ucyate sarvadā /
Vasatyudara' eva bhojanaganasya sampacakah //" Kalyāņakāraka, 8.5. ..Vayunā samānākhyena grahanimabhiniyate / şaşthi pittadharā nāma ya kala parikirttita /amapakkāśayāntah stha grahaņi sā, abihdhiyate / agnyadhisthānamanna saya grahaņād grahani mata," Caraka-Dridhavalasamhita quoted by Aruņa in his comm. on vägbhata ... Vide Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus
P. 2.7. 85. "Bhuktamāmāsaye ruddha sä vipācya nayatyadhah/", Ibid., p. 207 86. Tatah sārabhūtasyahārarasasya diau bhāgau bhavatah / sthūlah sükşmasca... tatah
sūksmo thāgaḥ prāņavāyunā prerito dhamanimārgena sarirarambhakasya raktasya
sthanam yakşt-plīharūpam gatvā tena daha milito bhavati/" Ibid, pp. 207-8. 8. "Tatah prāktanarakatadhātau eva tisthati/ tatah Sārabhūtasya ahārarasasya
dvau bhāgau bhavataḥ / sthūlah sūkşmasca sthūlo bhago rañjakākhyena pittena raktikraih sarirarambhakam raktam poşayan vyänavayunā prcrito dhamanībhih sancaran sakalasariragatäni rudhirāņi Puşnāti," Ibid, p. 208. "Apåna iti yo'anila vasa ti bastipakkāsaye / sa vata malamutragukranikbilorugarbhārtavam". 8.6. Kalyānakäraka.
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