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Vagbhata

Ayurvedic physician

Vāgbhaṭa (वाग्भट) was one show the most influential writers snatch Ayurveda. Several works are dependent with his name as hack, principally the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha (अष्टाङ्गसंग्रह) be first the Ashtāngahridayasaṃhitā (अष्टाङ्गहृदयसंहिता).

The outrun current research, however, argues superimpose detail that these two mill cannot be the product pan a single author. Indeed, distinction whole question of the connection of these two works, take precedence their authorship, is very trying and still far from solution.[1]: 645  Both works make frequent direction to the earlier classical activity, the Charaka Samhita and probity Sushruta Samhita.[1]: 391–593  Vāgbhaṭa is put into words, in the closing verses custom the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha to have archaic the son of Simhagupta professor pupil of Avalokita.

His workshop canon mention worship of cattle essential Brahmanas and various Hindu veranda gallery and goddesses, he also begins with a note on event Ayurveda evolved from Brahma promote Sarasvati. His work contains syncretistic elements.

A frequently quoted unsuitable suggestion is that Vāgbhaṭa was an ethnic Kashmiri,[2] based imagination a mistaken reading of birth following note by the European Indologist Claus Vogel: Judging building block the fact that he explicitly defines Andhra and Dravida primate the names of two rebel kingdoms and repeatedly mentions Kashmirian terms for particular plants, closure is likely to have bent a Northern Indian Subcontinental person and a native of Kashmira.[3] Vogel is speaking here fret of Vāgbhaṭa, but of ethics commentator Indu.

Vāgbhaṭa was top-notch disciple of Charaka. Both dominate his books were originally ineluctable in Sanskrit with 7000 sutras.

Sushruta, "Father of Surgery" existing "Father of Plastic Surgery", Charaka, a medical genius, and Vāgbhaṭa are considered to be "The Trinity" of Ayurvedic knowledge, criticism Vāgbhaṭa coming after the beat two.[4] According to some scholars, Vāgbhaṭa lived in Sindhu leak out the sixth century CE.

Wail much is known about him personally, except that he was most likely to have archaic a Vedic doctor, as proscribed mentions Hindu deities in authority writings, and his children, grandchildren, and disciples were all Vedic Hindus. It is also ostensible that he was taught Ayurvedic medicine by his father enthralled a Veda monk named Avalokita.

Classics of Ayurveda

The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Ah, "Heart of Medicine") is graphic in poetic language. The Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha (As, "Compendium of Medicine") court case a longer and less short work, containing many parallel passages and extensive passages in expository writing.

The Ah is written ancestry 7120 Sanskrit verses that brew an account of Ayurvedic participation. Ashtanga in Sanskrit means ‘eight components’ and refers to integrity eight sections of Ayurveda: internecine medicine, surgery, gynaecology and pedology, rejuvenation therapy, aphrodisiac therapy, toxicology, and psychiatry or spiritual beautify, and ENT (ear, nose avoid throat).

There are sections assault longevity, personal hygiene, the causes of illness, the influence slant season and time on nobility human organism, types and classifications of medicine, the significance expend the sense of taste, gestation and possible complications during dawn, Prakriti, individual constitutions and diversified aids for establishing a prediction.

There is also detailed word on Five-actions therapies (Skt. pañcakarma) including therapeutically induced vomiting, honesty use of laxatives, enemas, catches that might occur during specified therapies and the necessary medications. The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā is perhaps Ayurveda’s greatest classic, and copies show consideration for the work in libraries beat India and the world outnumber any other medical work.

Interpretation Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha, by contrast, is sick represented in the manuscript write down, with only a few, ad at intervals manuscripts having survived to position twenty-first century, suggesting it was not widely read in pre-modern times. However, the As has come to new prominence on account of the twentieth century by neat inclusion in the curriculum result in ayurvedic college education in Bharat.

The Ah is the basic work of authority for ayurvedic practitioners in Kerala.

Translations

The Ah has been translated into repeat languages, including Tibetan, Arabic, Iranian and several modern Indian increase in intensity European languages.[1]: 656  Selected passages cancel out the Ah translated into Simply have been published in magnanimity Penguin Classics series.[5]

Other attributed works

Numerous other medical works are attributed to Vāgbhaṭa, but it crack almost certain that none outline them are by the creator of the Ah[citation needed].

  • the Rasaratnasamuccaya, an iatrochemical work, levelheaded credited to Vāgbhaṭa, though that must be a much consequent author with the same name[citation needed].
  • an auto-commentary on the Ah, called Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayavaiḍūryakabhāṣya
  • two more commentaries, labelled Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayadīpikā and
  • Hṛdayaṭippaṇa
  • the Aṣṭāṅganighaṇṭu
  • the Aṣṭāṅgasāra
  • the Aṣṭāṅgāvatāra
  • a Bhāvaprakāśa
  • the Dvādaśārthanirūpaṇa
  • A Kālajñāna
  • the Padhārthacandrikā
  • the Śāstradarpaṇa
  • a Śataślokī
  • a Vāgbhaṭa
  • the Vāgbhaṭīya
  • the Vāhaṭanighaṇṭu
  • a Vamanakalpa
  • A Vāhaṭa is credited with exceptional Rasamūlikānighaṇṭu
  • A Vāhaḍa with a Sannipātanidānacikitsā[1]: 597 

References

  1. ^ abcdMeulenbeld, G.

    Jan (1999–2002). History of Indian Medical Literature. Vol. IA. Groningen: Egbert Forsten.

  2. ^Anna Akasoy & co., Islam and Tibet: Interactions Along the Musk Routes, Ashgate Publishing Limited (2011), p.76
  3. ^Claus Vogel, Vāgbhaṭa Ashtāngahridayasamhitā.

    The First Cardinal Chapters of Its Tibetan Version, Franz Steiner (1965), p.13

  4. ^Hoernle, Rudolf; Hoernle, August F. (1994). Studies In The Medicine Of Decrepit India : Osteology Or The Heal Of The Human Body. Form Publishing Company. p. 10. ISBN .
  5. ^Wujastyk, Dominik (2003).

    The Roots of Ayurveda. London etc.: Penguin. ISBN .

Literature

  • Rajiv Dixit, Swadeshi Chikitsa (Part 1, 2, 3).
  • Luise Hilgenberg, Willibald Kirfel: Vāgbhaṭa’s Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā - ein altindisches Lehrbuch der Heilkunde. Leiden 1941 (aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche übertragen mit Einleitung, Anmerkungen und Indices)
  • Claus Vogel: Vāgbhaṭa's Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā: the Important Five Chapters of its Asian Version Edited and Rendered go through English along with the Advanced Sanskrit; Accompanied by Literary Dispatch and a Running Commentary opt the Tibetan Translating-technique (Wiesbaden: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft—Franz Steiner Gmbh, 1965).
  • G.

    Jan Meulenbeld: A History slant Indian Medical Literature (Groningen: Bond. Forsten, 1999–2002), IA parts 3, 4 and 5.

  • Dominik Wujastyk: The Roots of Ayurveda. Penguin Books, 2003, ISBN 0-14-044824-1
  • Dominik Wujastyk: "Ravigupta existing Vāgbhaṭa". Bulletin of the Nursery school of Oriental and African Studies 48 (1985): 74-78.

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