The eight saras
Charaka's eight saras: the tissue or quality best developed in a person, named only as the text describes.
- 7-minute lesson
- Basic course: Samudrika Shishya
- Samudrika Shastra
- The strongest tissue
- Signs the text gives
- Not a diagnosis
A first look at the lesson
Charaka Samhita (Vimana Sthana 8) examines a person's sara, the tissue or quality best developed in them. There are eight: skin, blood, flesh, fat, bone, marrow, shukra (reproductive essence) and mind (sattva).
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More lessons on this subject
- Chhaya: the five lustresThe lustre a person gives off, named after the five elements; an impression, never skin colour.
- A first overall lookPutting height, proportion, chhaya and sara together on one person, said as the texts describe it.
- What Samudrika Shastra isAn old Indian study of the whole body's marks and features, where it sits in Jyotish, and what it is not.
- The texts of SamudrikaBrihat Samhita, the Garuda Purana, Samudrika Tilaka, the Jain Angavijja and Charaka: what each gives.
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