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Chap. VII. ] Symptoms— when fourth Patala attacked: — Loss of vision (Timira) results from the fact of the deranged bodily Doshas being confined within the fourth Patala (choroid) of the organ. When the vision is completely obstructed by the aforesaid cause, it is called a case of Linga-náśa (blindness). Only a faint perception of the images of the sun, the moon and the stars, the heaven, a flash of lightning or any other such highly brilliant objects is possible in a case of superficial (not deep-seated) Linga-náśa. The Linga-náśa (blindness) is also called Níliká and Kácha. 6.

Specific traits of Timira:——Ali external objects are viewed as cloudy, moving, crooked and red-coloured in the Vátaja type (of Timira), while in the Pittaja type they appear to be invested with the different colours of the spectrum or of the rain-bow, of the glow-worm, of the flash of lightning, or of the feathers of the pea-cock, or with a dark blue tint bordering on black; while in a case of Kaphaja. Timira, a thick white coat like that of a pack of white clouds or a deep white chowri (Chámara) seems to intervene in everything which look white and oily and dull and appear hazy and cloudy in a fine day, or as if laid under a sheet of water. In a case of the Raktaja type of Timira, all objects appear red or envoloped in gloom, and they assume a greyish, blackish or variegated colour. In a case of Sánnipátika Timira, the outer world looks vareigated and confused, appears as doubled or trebled to the vision (of the patient), and stars and planets, either defective or supplied with additional limbs, seem to float about in the vision. 7-11. Parimláyi: — The quarters of the heaven look yellow and appear to the sight as if resplendent with the light of the rising sun, and trees seem as if sparkling with the tangles of fire-flies in a case of Parimláyi,