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Chap. LV.]
UTTARA-TANTRA.
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PuriShaja Udávarta:— A repressed urging for stool is followed by the exhibition of such symptoms, as rumbling in the intestines, severe pain (in the abdomen), cutting pain in the anus, upward coursing of the flatus, suppression of stool or even emission of feces through the mouth. 6.

utraja Udávarta:— A repression of the desire of making water is followed by scanty emission of urine which is often given out by painful drops producing distension of the bladder and an excruciating pain in the urethra, anus, scrotum and the inguinal regions and about the umbilicus, and sometimes even in the head, accompanied with distortion of features in consequence. 7.

A repression of yawning leads to wry-neck (numbness of the Manyá and of the neck) as well as troubles of the head due to the incarcerated local Váyu and violent diseases affecting the eyes, nose, ears and the mouth. Tears born of any mental condition of grief or joy and voluntarily repressed without being given free vent to, give rise to severe distempers of the eyes, heaviness of the head and catarrh (Pinasa). 8-9.

A repression of sneezing is followed by acute diseases of the head, eyes, nose and ears. A sense of fulness in the throat as well as the suppression and croaking of the incarcerated Váyu (wind) are also exhibited in this case.*[1] The voluntary repression of any natural urging towards eructation gives rise to diseases peculiar to the derangement of the bodily Váyu. 10-11.

A repression of vomiting is followed by cutaneous

  1. * The symptoms mentioned in this sentence (which comprises a line in the verse) is taken by Mádhava with the following line which enumerates the symptoms of Udávarta due to the voluntary repression of eructation.