CHAPTER XXXI.
Now we shall discourse on the Chapter, which deals with the prognosis to be gathered from the altered condition of features (Chhaya-Vipratipatti-madhyayam).*[1]
Metrical Text:—The man, whose complexion suddenly assumes a brown, red, blue or yellow shade, should be regarded as already gathered to his rest. The man, who has lost all sense of modesty or propriety, and whose complexion, and whose strength (ojah) and memory have suddenly undergone discolouration or extreme deterioration, should be counted with the dead. Little chance there is of the life of a patient whose lower lip hangs down while the upper one is drawn or turned up, and both of them have assumed a black colour like that of a jamboline fruit. The patient, whose teeth fall out or which have assumed a reddish
- ↑ *Physicians of the Ayurvedic School, however, observe a distinction between Chhaya (shade of complexion), PrabhA (healthful glow of the complexion), and Varna (natural colour of the complexion) itself. The Chhaya or the shade of one's complexion may be easily distinguished as clear, rough or cool, etc. and can be detected only on a close view. The Prabha, on the other hand, is visible from a distance and admits of of being divided into seven different types, such as red, yellow, while, brown, greenish, pale, and black. The Varna or the natural colour of the complexion of a man is found to be either fair, black, dusky leaning towards the fair, according to his race and habitation. The term also includes natural modesty, look and ease.
