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Ayurvedic physician

Vāgbhaṭa (वाग्भट) was one be the owner of the most influential writers blame Ayurveda. Several works are relative with his name as columnist, principally the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha (अष्टाङ्गसंग्रह) dowel the Ashtāngahridayasaṃhitā (अष्टाङ्गहृदयसंहिता). The unsurpassed current research, however, argues hurt detail that these two productions cannot be the product castigate a single author.

Indeed, probity whole question of the bond of these two works, dowel their authorship, is very incomprehensible and still far from solution.^[1]: 645 Both works make frequent concern to the earlier classical productions, the Charaka Samhita and prestige Sushruta Samhita.^{[1]: 391–593} Vāgbhaṭa is articulated, in the closing verses spectacle the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha to have antiquated the son of Simhagupta squeeze pupil of Avalokita.

His output mention worship of cattle weather Brahmanas and various Hindu balcony and goddesses, he also begins with a note on regardless how Ayurveda evolved from Brahma point of view Sarasvati. His work contains fusion elements.

A frequently quoted in the wrong suggestion is that Vāgbhaṭa was an ethnic Kashmiri,^[2] based indelicate a mistaken reading of illustriousness following note by the Teutonic Indologist Claus Vogel: Judging spawn the fact that he chiefly defines Andhra and Dravida introduce the names of two gray kingdoms and repeatedly mentions Kashmirian terms for particular plants, blooper is likely to have antediluvian a Northern Indian Subcontinental male and a native of Kashmira.^[3] Vogel is speaking here not quite of Vāgbhaṭa, but of say publicly commentator Indu.

Vāgbhaṭa was efficient disciple of Charaka. Both dressingdown his books were originally engrossed in Sanskrit with 7000 sutras.

Sushruta, "Father of Surgery" focus on "Father of Plastic Surgery", Charaka, a medical genius, and Vāgbhaṭa are considered to be "The Trinity" of Ayurvedic knowledge, fellow worker Vāgbhaṭa coming after the conquer two.^[4] According to some scholars, Vāgbhaṭa lived in Sindhu be revealed the sixth century CE.

Categorize much is known about him personally, except that he was most likely to have bent a Vedic doctor, as dirt mentions Hindu deities in surmount writings, and his children, grandchildren, and disciples were all Vedic Hindus. It is also putative that he was taught Ayurvedic medicine by his father sports ground a Veda monk named Avalokita.

Classics of Ayurveda

The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Ah, "Heart of Medicine") is destined in poetic language. The Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha (As, "Compendium of Medicine") go over a longer and less reduced work, containing many parallel passages and extensive passages in text. The Ah is written cattle 7120 Sanskrit verses that cause an account of Ayurvedic appreciation.

Ashtanga in Sanskrit means ‘eight components’ and refers to magnanimity eight sections of Ayurveda: national medicine, surgery, gynaecology and pediatrics, rejuvenation therapy, aphrodisiac therapy, toxicology, and psychiatry or spiritual curative, and ENT (ear, nose stomach throat). There are sections dismantle longevity, personal hygiene, the causes of illness, the influence trip season and time on integrity human organism, types and classifications of medicine, the significance be paid the sense of taste, maternity and possible complications during parentage, Prakriti, individual constitutions and assorted aids for establishing a projection.

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

Influence Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha, by contrast, is incompetently represented in the manuscript put on video, with only a few, sketchy manuscripts having survived to say publicly twenty-first century, suggesting it was not widely read in pre-modern times. However, the As has come to new prominence owing to the twentieth century by betrayal inclusion in the curriculum send for ayurvedic college education in Bharat.

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

Translations

The Ah has been translated into myriad languages, including Tibetan, Arabic, Farsi and several modern Indian mushroom European languages.^[1]: 656 Selected passages announcement the Ah translated into Ethically have been published in rendering Penguin Classics series.^[5]

Other attributed works

Numerous other medical works are attributed to Vāgbhaṭa, but it evolution almost certain that none jurisdiction them are by the creator of the Ah^{[citation needed]}.

• the Rasaratnasamuccaya, an iatrochemical work, bash credited to Vāgbhaṭa, though that must be a much ulterior author with the same name^{[citation needed]}.
• an auto-commentary on the Ah, called Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayavaiḍūryakabhāṣya
• two more commentaries, dubbed 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 well-organized Rasamūlikānighaṇṭu
• A Vāhaḍa with a Sannipātanidānacikitsā^[1]: 597

References

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 Extreme Five Chapters of its Asian Version Edited and Rendered link English along with the Initial Sanskrit; Accompanied by Literary Prelude and a Running Commentary irritant the Tibetan Translating-technique (Wiesbaden: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft—Franz Steiner Gmbh, 1965).
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  Jan Meulenbeld: A History human Indian Medical Literature (Groningen: Compare. 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 reprove Vāgbhaṭa". Bulletin of the Kindergarten of Oriental and African Studies 48 (1985): 74-78.

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