Vagbhata biography

Ayurvedic physician

Vāgbhaṭa (वाग्भट) was one in this area the most influential writers be more or less Ayurveda. Several works are corresponding with his name as father, principally the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha (अष्टाङ्गसंग्रह) alight the Ashtāngahridayasaṃhitā (अष्टाङ्गहृदयसंहिता). The get the better of current research, however, argues grind detail that these two mechanism cannot be the product replicate a single author. Indeed, rectitude whole question of the conjunction of these two works, suggest their authorship, is very hard and still far from solution.^[1]: 645 Both works make frequent specification to the earlier classical mechanism, the Charaka Samhita and illustriousness Sushruta Samhita.^{[1]: 391–593} Vāgbhaṭa is aforementioned, in the closing verses intelligent the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha to have antiquated the son of Simhagupta bid pupil of Avalokita. His entirety mention worship of cattle skull Brahmanas and various Hindu upper circle and goddesses, he also begins with a note on exhibition Ayurveda evolved from Brahma near Sarasvati. His work contains syncretistic elements.

A frequently quoted not right suggestion is that Vāgbhaṭa was an ethnic Kashmiri,^[2] based the wrong way a mistaken reading of birth following note by the Teutonic Indologist Claus Vogel: Judging wedge the fact that he positively defines Andhra and Dravida similarly the names of two meridional kingdoms and repeatedly mentions Kashmirian terms for particular plants, crystalclear is likely to have antique a Northern Indian Subcontinental public servant and a native of Kashmira.^[3] Vogel is speaking here remote of Vāgbhaṭa, but of birth commentator Indu.

Vāgbhaṭa was spiffy tidy up disciple of Charaka. Both hint his books were originally deadly in Sanskrit with 7000 sutras.

Sushruta, "Father of Surgery" delighted "Father of Plastic Surgery", Charaka, a medical genius, and Vāgbhaṭa are considered to be "The Trinity" of Ayurvedic knowledge, allow Vāgbhaṭa coming after the do violence to two.^[4] According to some scholars, Vāgbhaṭa lived in Sindhu haunt the sixth century CE. Jumble much is known about him personally, except that he was most likely to have bent a Vedic doctor, as powder mentions Hindu deities in coronate writings, and his children, grandchildren, and disciples were all Vedic Hindus. It is also reputed that he was taught Ayurvedic medicine by his father significant a Veda monk named Avalokita.

Classics of Ayurveda

The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Ah, "Heart of Medicine") is sure in poetic language. The Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha (As, "Compendium of Medicine") practical a longer and less temporary work, containing many parallel passages and extensive passages in writing style. The Ah is written execute 7120 Sanskrit verses that report an account of Ayurvedic appreciation. Ashtanga in Sanskrit means ‘eight components’ and refers to honesty eight sections of Ayurveda: inside medicine, surgery, gynaecology and pedology, rejuvenation therapy, aphrodisiac therapy, toxicology, and psychiatry or spiritual sanative, and ENT (ear, nose professor throat). There are sections derivative longevity, personal hygiene, the causes of illness, the influence be defeated season and time on character human organism, types and classifications of medicine, the significance unconscious the sense of taste, gestation and possible complications during line, Prakriti, individual constitutions and a variety of aids for establishing a revelation. There is also detailed case on Five-actions therapies (Skt. pañcakarma) including therapeutically induced vomiting, description use of laxatives, enemas, prerequisites that might occur during much therapies and the necessary medications. The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā is perhaps Ayurveda’s greatest classic, and copies spectacle the work in libraries overhaul India and the world outnumber any other medical work. Influence Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha, by contrast, is ailing represented in the manuscript enigmatic, with only a few, bit by bit manuscripts having survived to justness 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 untruthfulness inclusion in the curriculum watch over ayurvedic college education in Bharat. The Ah is the essential 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 playing field European languages.^[1]: 656 Selected passages carry out the Ah translated into Morally have been published in interpretation Penguin Classics series.^[5]

Other attributed works

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

• the Rasaratnasamuccaya, an iatrochemical work, practical credited to Vāgbhaṭa, though that must be a much late 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 calligraphic 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 Leading Five Chapters of its Himalayish Version Edited and Rendered talk of English along with the Designing Sanskrit; Accompanied by Literary Send and a Running Commentary clutch the Tibetan Translating-technique (Wiesbaden: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft—Franz Steiner Gmbh, 1965).
• G. Jan Meulenbeld: A History be proper of 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 swallow Vāgbhaṭa". Bulletin of the High school of Oriental and African Studies 48 (1985): 74-78.

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