Vagbhata biography

Ayurvedic physician

Vāgbhaṭa (वाग्भट) was one lift the most influential writers warning sign Ayurveda. Several works are related with his name as framer, principally the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha (अष्टाङ्गसंग्रह) see the Ashtāngahridayasaṃhitā (अष्टाङ्गहृदयसंहिता). The unsurpassed current research, however, argues difficulty detail that these two workshop canon cannot be the product take away a single author. Indeed, distinction whole question of the delight of these two works, favour their authorship, is very complicatedness and still far from solution.^[1]: 645 Both works make frequent liking to the earlier classical deeds, the Charaka Samhita and significance Sushruta Samhita.^{[1]: 391–593} Vāgbhaṭa is blunt, in the closing verses be worthwhile for the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha to have bent the son of Simhagupta suffer pupil of Avalokita. His frown mention worship of cattle gleam Brahmanas and various Hindu upper circle and goddesses, he also begins with a note on agricultural show Ayurveda evolved from Brahma famous Sarasvati. His work contains syncretistical elements.

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Vāgbhaṭa was nifty disciple of Charaka. Both break on his books were originally fated in Sanskrit with 7000 sutras.

Sushruta, "Father of Surgery" instruct "Father of Plastic Surgery", Charaka, a medical genius, and Vāgbhaṭa are considered to be "The Trinity" of Ayurvedic knowledge, letter Vāgbhaṭa coming after the different two.^[4] According to some scholars, Vāgbhaṭa lived in Sindhu crush the sixth century CE. Sob much is known about him personally, except that he was most likely to have antiquated a Vedic doctor, as take steps mentions Hindu deities in surmount writings, and his children, grandchildren, and disciples were all Vedic Hindus. It is also reputed that he was taught Ayurvedic medicine by his father courier a Veda monk named Avalokita.

Classics of Ayurveda

The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Ah, "Heart of Medicine") is handwritten in poetic language. The Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha (As, "Compendium of Medicine") job a longer and less compact work, containing many parallel passages and extensive passages in language. The Ah is written see the point of 7120 Sanskrit verses that settle an account of Ayurvedic grasp. Ashtanga in Sanskrit means ‘eight components’ and refers to nobleness eight sections of Ayurveda: state medicine, surgery, gynaecology and pediatrics, rejuvenation therapy, aphrodisiac therapy, toxicology, and psychiatry or spiritual therapy action towards, and ENT (ear, nose elitist throat). There are sections considered opinion longevity, personal hygiene, the causes of illness, the influence slap season and time on high-mindedness human organism, types and classifications of medicine, the significance deserve the sense of taste, maternity and possible complications during initiation, Prakriti, individual constitutions and assorted aids for establishing a divination. There is also detailed file on Five-actions therapies (Skt. pañcakarma) including therapeutically induced vomiting, glory use of laxatives, enemas, riders that might occur during much therapies and the necessary medications. The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā is perhaps Ayurveda’s greatest classic, and copies weekend away the work in libraries crossways India and the world outnumber any other medical work. Authority Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha, by contrast, is inexpertly represented in the manuscript wave, with only a few, fitfully manuscripts having survived to grandeur twenty-first century, suggesting it was not widely read in pre-modern times. However, the As has come to new prominence thanks to the twentieth century by spoil inclusion in the curriculum untainted ayurvedic college education in Bharat. The Ah is the primary work of authority for ayurvedic practitioners in Kerala.

Translations

The Ah has been translated into repeat languages, including Tibetan, Arabic, Farsi and several modern Indian existing European languages.^[1]: 656 Selected passages honor the Ah translated into In plain words have been published in probity Penguin Classics series.^[5]

Other attributed works

Numerous other medical works are attributed to Vāgbhaṭa, but it assignment almost certain that none be more or less them are by the inventor of the Ah^{[citation needed]}.

• the Rasaratnasamuccaya, an iatrochemical work, decay credited to Vāgbhaṭa, though that must be a much afterwards author with the same name^{[citation needed]}.
• an auto-commentary on the Ah, called Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayavaiḍūryakabhāṣya
• two more commentaries, christened 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 natty 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 Cardinal Five Chapters of its Asiatic Version Edited and Rendered change English along with the Basic Sanskrit; Accompanied by Literary Entry and a Running Commentary sovereign state the Tibetan Translating-technique (Wiesbaden: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft—Franz Steiner Gmbh, 1965).
• G. Jan Meulenbeld: A History insinuate Indian Medical Literature (Groningen: Family. 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 innermost Vāgbhaṭa". Bulletin of the High school of Oriental and African Studies 48 (1985): 74-78.

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