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Agnivesha The Great Heritage Of The Healing Art Left To Us By Krsna Atreya Would Have Been Lost To Us But For The Herculean Task Of His Chief Pupil Agnivesha Who Made A Detailed Record Of The Exposition Which Flowed From The Benevolent Lips Of His Preceptor Atreya. It Was Agnivesha Who Codified The Knowledge [...]

We Find That 79 Chapter Of Caraka Samhita End With The Following Sentence:- These 79 Chapters Are Distributed In The Different Sections As Under:- 30 In The Section On General Principles 8 In The Section On Pathology 8 In The Section In Specific Determination 8 In The Section On Human Embodiment 12 In The Section [...]

Cakrapani Is The Most Famous Among The Commentators Of Caraka Samhita. His Commentary Is In Its Entirety. It Has Been Printed At Many Places. We Learn From His Own Statement At The End Of His Ayurveda-Dipika And Cikitsa Sangraha And Also From Sivadasa, The Commentator Of Cikitsa Sangraha That Cakrapani’s Father’s Name Was Narayana And [...]

Bhattara Haricandra Was A Versatile Genius Who Made A Name In The Litereary As Well As The Medical Word. That He Was Famous Literateur Is Proved By A Reference To Him In The Beginning Of Harsa Carita By The Great Post Bana. “The Charming Diction And Style And The Beauty Of Assonance Of Bhattara Haricandra [...]

The Sixth Pupil In The Brilliant Batch Trained In The Medical Lore By Atreya Is Ksarapani. He Is Also Said To Have Compiled A Samhita Like Other Co-Student, But This Work Also Has Been Lost To Us, But Its Availability Upto The Time Of Vagbhata Is Inferrable Because Of The Quotations That Are Give By [...]

Harita Belonged To The Gallaxy Of The Six Brilliant Pupils Of Atreya. He, Too, Is Reputed To Have Composed A Samhita, But His Work Is Also Not Available. There Is A Harita Reputed To Have Learnt At The Feet Of The Great Sage Jabali And To Be The Author Of Dharma And Smrti Books. Whether [...]

Rsi Parasara Was One Of The Six Disciples Of Maharsi Atreya And A Co-Student Of Sage Agnivesa. He, Too, Wrote A Treatise On Medicine But Is Not Available Now. The Word Parasara Means A Posthumous Son, But We Have No Evidence To Show That This Parasara Was Posthumously Born. Medical Authors Belonging To Various Ages [...]

Not Much Is Known About Jatukarna, The Co-Student Of Agnivesa And Agnivesa And A Great Medical Author Or The Golden Age Of Ayurveda. He Is Also Said To Have Compiled A Medical Treatise, But It Is Not Availlable Now. It Seems It Was Available Upto Carakapani’s Time As We Find Profuse Quotations From Jatukarna In [...]

Agnivesa And Bhela Studied At The Same Master’s Feet And Hence We Find Great Similarity In Their Works. But Bhela Samhita Is More Concise And There Is More Prose In It Than In His Distinguished Co-Student’s Treatise. The Bhela Samhita As Handed Down To Us Seems To Be Of Quite Old Composition. Unfortunately The Treactise [...]

The Brahmanas (Preceptor Class) Became The Dispensers Of Religion Of Laws And Of Medicine. They Exhibited A Superiority Of Intelligence Which, With The Execption Of The Greeks, Is In Vain Looked For In Other Ancient Nations. In Ancient India, The Aryan Literature Was Highly Cherished And Fully Cared For By The Princes And Opulent Individuals, [...]