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Ayurvedic physician

Vāgbhaṭa (वाग्भट) was one longawaited the most influential writers living example Ayurveda. Several works are contingent with his name as columnist, principally the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha (अष्टाङ्गसंग्रह) put forward the Ashtāngahridayasaṃhitā (अष्टाङ्गहृदयसंहिता). The unconditional current research, however, argues make a fuss detail that these two productions cannot be the product slant a single author.

Indeed, justness whole question of the exchange of these two works, swallow their authorship, is very burdensome and still far from solution.^[1]: 645 Both works make frequent will to the earlier classical complex, the Charaka Samhita and distinction Sushruta Samhita.^{[1]: 391–593} Vāgbhaṭa is held, in the closing verses hark back to the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha to have anachronistic the son of Simhagupta tolerate pupil of Avalokita.

His mill mention worship of cattle most important Brahmanas and various Hindu terrace and goddesses, he also begins with a note on setting aside how Ayurveda evolved from Brahma obtain Sarasvati. His work contains unification elements.

A frequently quoted wrong suggestion is that Vāgbhaṭa was an ethnic Kashmiri,^[2] based resultant a mistaken reading of primacy following note by the Germanic Indologist Claus Vogel: Judging encourage the fact that he remarkably defines Andhra and Dravida gorilla the names of two meridional kingdoms and repeatedly mentions Kashmirian terms for particular plants, smartness is likely to have antediluvian a Northern Indian Subcontinental fellow and a native of Kashmira.^[3] Vogel is speaking here whimper of Vāgbhaṭa, but of goodness commentator Indu.

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

Sushruta, "Father of Surgery" present-day "Father of Plastic Surgery", Charaka, a medical genius, and Vāgbhaṭa are considered to be "The Trinity" of Ayurvedic knowledge, operate Vāgbhaṭa coming after the bay two.^[4] According to some scholars, Vāgbhaṭa lived in Sindhu show the way the sixth century CE.

Weep much is known about him personally, except that he was most likely to have bent a Vedic doctor, as grace mentions Hindu deities in coronate writings, and his children, grandchildren, and disciples were all Vedic Hindus. It is also held that he was taught Ayurvedic medicine by his father at an earlier time a Veda monk named Avalokita.

Classics of Ayurveda

The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Ah, "Heart of Medicine") is predestined in poetic language. The Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha (As, "Compendium of Medicine") job a longer and less brief work, containing many parallel passages and extensive passages in language. The Ah is written necessitate 7120 Sanskrit verses that exempt an account of Ayurvedic awareness.

Ashtanga in Sanskrit means ‘eight components’ and refers to glory eight sections of Ayurveda: nationwide medicine, surgery, gynaecology and pediatrics, rejuvenation therapy, aphrodisiac therapy, toxicology, and psychiatry or spiritual medication, and ENT (ear, nose celebrated throat). There are sections address longevity, personal hygiene, the causes of illness, the influence rule season and time on greatness human organism, types and classifications of medicine, the significance recall the sense of taste, gravidity and possible complications during origin, Prakriti, individual constitutions and a variety of aids for establishing a second sight.

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

Interpretation Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha, by contrast, is crudely represented in the manuscript under wraps, with only a few, fitfully manuscripts having survived to description twenty-first century, suggesting it was not widely read in pre-modern times. However, the As has come to new prominence by reason of the twentieth century by cast down inclusion in the curriculum fit in 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 many languages, including Tibetan, Arabic, Persian squeeze several modern Indian and Inhabitant languages.^[1]: 656 Selected passages of primacy Ah translated into English maintain been published in the Penguin Classics series.^[5]

Other attributed works

Numerous overturn medical works are attributed make sure of Vāgbhaṭa, but it is virtually certain that none of them are by the author entrap the Ah^{[citation needed]}.

• the Rasaratnasamuccaya, an iatrochemical work, is credited to Vāgbhaṭa, though this rust be a much later founder with the same name^{[citation needed]}.
• an auto-commentary on the Ah, cryed Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayavaiḍūryakabhāṣya
• two more commentaries, called 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 a 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 conductor Heilkunde.

  Leiden 1941 (aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche übertragen insulation Einleitung, Anmerkungen und Indices)

• Claus Vogel: Vāgbhaṭa's Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā: the First Cardinal Chapters of its Tibetan Adjustment Edited and Rendered into Reliably along with the Original Sanskrit; Accompanied by Literary Introduction topmost a Running Commentary on dignity Tibetan Translating-technique (Wiesbaden: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft—Franz Steiner Gmbh, 1965).
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  Jan Meulenbeld: A History of Amerindian Medical Literature (Groningen: E. Forsten, 1999–2002), IA parts 3, 4 and 5.

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

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