# samprāpti-ghaṭaka > Canonical version of this page: https://nighantu.ageayurveda.com/lexicon/samprapti-ghataka/ An Ayurvedic technical term, rendered into English in 4 different ways across 5 sources. The renderings do not agree, and the difference between them changes what the term is taken to mean. ## Identification | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Transliteration | samprāpti-ghaṭaka | | Also written | samprāptighaṭaka, samprapti ghatak, samprapthi ghataka, vyādhi-ghaṭaka | | Category, as gathered | nidana | | Grouped under | Causation and the course of disease | | Classical citations | 0 | ## How it is translated, and whether the translation holds Each rendering is given with the source that uses it. The assessment is ours. ### not covered WHO international standard terminologies on Ayurveda (2022) · standards body · our paraphrase of the source, not its words NEGATIVE FINDING, verified by me against the extracted full text of the 608-page PDF: neither 'ghataka' nor 'ghaṭaka' appears anywhere in the document. WHO codes samprāpti (ITA-4.5.16) and its six bheda (ITA-4.5.18 to 4.5.23) but has no entry for the components construct. Anyone crosswalking Ayurvedic case records to WHO terminology will find no target for this field. ### Stages of disease manifestation and management WHO international standard terminologies on Ayurveda (2022) · ITA-4.6.6 (kriyākālaḥ / ṣaṭkriyākālaḥ) · standards body Recorded because although WHO has no entry for the compound, it does code several items that appear as slots in the modern list. Description: 'A comprehensive term for the six prominent stages in disease management indicating the stepwise progression of its pathogenesis.' Kriyākāla is routinely listed as one of the ghaṭaka in case write-ups. Reproduced unaltered and attributed from the WHO International Standard Terminologies on Ayurveda, which is what that licence permits, and deliberately absent from the downloadable dataset, which is CC BY 4.0. ### Stage of a dosha localizing outside its location WHO international standard terminologies on Ayurveda (2022) · ITA-4.6.10 (sthānasaṃśrayaḥ) · standards body Component-level coverage: the adhiṣṭhāna / sthāna-saṃśraya element of a written samprāpti has a WHO code even though the parent construct does not. Reproduced unaltered and attributed from the WHO International Standard Terminologies on Ayurveda, which is what that licence permits, and deliberately absent from the downloadable dataset, which is CC BY 4.0. ### Samprapti Ghataka Raval HN, Thakar AB, Ayu 2012 (PMID 23049187) · peer-reviewed journal The source's own wording is not reproduced here: "Raval HN, Thakar AB, Ayu 2012 (PMID 23049187)" is not a source this project has cleared for quotation. The ONLY PubMed-indexed use of the term I found, and it is used without definition, as assumed shared vocabulary. That is itself the most informative datum in this record. ### not covered ICD-11 Traditional Medicine Module 2 · classification · our paraphrase of the source, not its words NEGATIVE, AND ONLY STRUCTURALLY ARGUED. TM2 codes Traditional Medicine Disorders and Patterns; a documentation template is neither. I could not query the browser: search URLs returned 404 and the browse root redirects. ## Where this term does work in the theory One concept record names this term as one of its components, and glosses it there as follows. - **[Samprapti (the Ayurvedic model of pathogenesis)](https://nighantu.ageayurveda.com/concept/samprapti/)** (as samprapti ghataka): The modern teaching-manual checklist of pathogenesis components (dosha, dushya, agni, ama, srotas, srotodushti prakara, udbhava sthana, sanchara sthana, adhishthana, roga marga, sadhya-asadhyata). LABEL, kept deliberately blunt: this is a twentieth-century pedagogical construct, not a classical enumeration. The searches named in gatheringNotes found no verse in Charaka or Sushruta listing it, sources disagree on its membership and even on its length, and no retrieved source gives it an author or a date. It is nonetheless the object modern clinical writing operates under the name samprapti, which is why it is in this list at all. See contested[1] and notKnown. ## Not to be confused with - **samprāpti.** Samprāpti is the process. Samprāpti-ghaṭaka is an analytic breakdown of it into named slots to be filled in. The ghaṭaka format is how a samprāpti is WRITTEN UP in modern case documentation and dissertations; it is not a second process. - **samprāpti-bheda.** The genuinely classical subdivision (Ca. Ni. 1.12: saṅkhyā, prādhānya, vidhi, vikalpa, bala, kāla, which I verified in the Sanskrit; WHO codes six at ITA-4.5.18-4.5.23). Those are dimensions along which a samprāpti varies. The ghaṭaka are the anatomical and physiological participants. Completely different lists, routinely confused because both are 'the parts of samprāpti'. - **nidāna / hetu.** The ghaṭaka list describes what is involved INSIDE the pathological process. The causes that set it going are nidāna and sit outside the list. - **ṣaṭ-kriyākāla.** A staging sequence, quotable from Bhishagratna's Sūtra 21. Kriyākāla is often listed AS ONE of the ghaṭaka slots, which makes the two easy to conflate; the ghaṭaka set is larger and is not temporally ordered. - **dūṣya.** One component of the list, not the list. WHO codes dūṣya independently. - **srotas / sroto-duṣṭi-prakāra.** Two separate slots in most component lists, the channel involved, and the manner of its vitiation. Frequently collapsed into one in write-ups. ## Renderings that do not hold - pathogenic factors. Reads ghaṭaka as causal agents. They are participants in the pathology, not its causes; the causes are nidāna. - components of pathogenesis. The usual rendering and defensible, but it obscures that these are documentation slots in a modern template rather than a classical enumeration. A lexicon should say which it is. - pathophysiological mechanism. A ghaṭaka list names the participants; it does not by itself state a mechanism connecting them. - disease components. Too vague; loses the specific reference to the samprāpti process. ## Open questions Recorded rather than resolved. - Does the compound samprāpti-ghaṭaka occur in ANY classical or commentarial Sanskrit text? I could not find it, and my search was not exhaustive: I checked Charaka Nidana Sthana 1 and Vimana 8 (Sanskrit, retrieved and searched), Bhishagratna's Sushruta Sutrasthana volume (full-text search of the OCR), the full WHO 2022 terminology PDF (full-text search of the extraction), and general web search. I did NOT search a Sanskrit corpus such as GRETIL, and did not check Chakrapani, Madhukosha, Dalhana, Sharngadhara or Bhavaprakasha. The correct statement is 'not found', not 'does not exist'. - Which modern author first codified the list. The likeliest candidates are the mid-20th-century Roga Nidana / Vyadhi Vinishchaya teaching texts used in Indian BAMS and MD(Ay) curricula. A human should check Yogesh Chandra Mishra's and Ajay Kumar Sharma's Roga Nidana textbooks and the CCIM syllabus for Roga Nidana evam Vikriti Vigyana. - How many slots the canonical list has, and whether it is stable. Component sets I encountered in secondary sources ran to roughly ten items (doṣa, dūṣya, srotas, sroto-duṣṭi-prakāra, agni, ama, udbhava-sthāna, sañcāra-sthāna, vyakta-sthāna, roga-mārga, sometimes svabhāva and sādhya-asādhyatā), but I verified no single authoritative enumeration from a primary source and so record none here. - Whether NAMASTE codes the construct. namaste.ayush.gov.in answers at the root but its terminologies path 302-redirects and the machine-readable data was not reachable. - Devanagari is left empty deliberately: I did not sight सम्प्राप्तिघटक in any retrieved Sanskrit source. ## Citation Age Ayurveda Nighantu, "samprāpti-ghaṭaka", https://nighantu.ageayurveda.com/lexicon/samprapti-ghataka/, CC BY 4.0. 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