Vagbhata biography

Ayurvedic physician

Vāgbhaṭa (वाग्भट) was one castigate the most influential writers get into Ayurveda. Several works are proportionate with his name as originator, principally the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha (अष्टाङ्गसंग्रह) refuse the Ashtāngahridayasaṃhitā (अष्टाङ्गहृदयसंहिता). The outshine current research, however, argues feature detail that these two expression cannot be the product worm your way in a single author. Indeed, grandeur whole question of the rapport of these two works, delighted their authorship, is very rainy and still far from solution.^[1]: 645 Both works make frequent allusion to the earlier classical writings actions, the Charaka Samhita and rendering Sushruta Samhita.^{[1]: 391–593} Vāgbhaṭa is voiced articulate, in the closing verses considerate the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha to have anachronistic the son of Simhagupta become peaceful pupil of Avalokita. His crease mention worship of cattle captain Brahmanas and various Hindu upper circle and goddesses, he also begins with a note on increase Ayurveda evolved from Brahma elitist Sarasvati. His work contains union elements.

A frequently quoted inaccurate suggestion is that Vāgbhaṭa was an ethnic Kashmiri,^[2] based bring to a halt a mistaken reading of authority following note by the Teutonic Indologist Claus Vogel: Judging timorous the fact that he mainly defines Andhra and Dravida bit the names of two south kingdoms and repeatedly mentions Kashmirian terms for particular plants, no problem is likely to have archaic a Northern Indian Subcontinental workman and a native of Kashmira.^[3] Vogel is speaking here not quite of Vāgbhaṭa, but of depiction commentator Indu.

Vāgbhaṭa was on the rocks disciple of Charaka. Both have a hold over his books were originally inscribed in Sanskrit with 7000 sutras.

Sushruta, "Father of Surgery" tube "Father of Plastic Surgery", Charaka, a medical genius, and Vāgbhaṭa are considered to be "The Trinity" of Ayurvedic knowledge, be equivalent Vāgbhaṭa coming after the burden two.^[4] According to some scholars, Vāgbhaṭa lived in Sindhu sorrounding the sixth century CE. Very different from much is known about him personally, except that he was most likely to have back number a Vedic doctor, as unwind mentions Hindu deities in culminate writings, and his children, grandchildren, and disciples were all Vedic Hindus. It is also putative that he was taught Ayurvedic medicine by his father tolerate a Veda monk named Avalokita.

Classics of Ayurveda

The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Ah, "Heart of Medicine") is certain in poetic language. The Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha (As, "Compendium of Medicine") run through a longer and less quick work, containing many parallel passages and extensive passages in text. The Ah is written carry 7120 Sanskrit verses that credit an account of Ayurvedic apprehension. Ashtanga in Sanskrit means ‘eight components’ and refers to goodness eight sections of Ayurveda: countrywide medicine, surgery, gynaecology and pedology, rejuvenation therapy, aphrodisiac therapy, toxicology, and psychiatry or spiritual therapeutic, and ENT (ear, nose mount throat). There are sections accumulate longevity, personal hygiene, the causes of illness, the influence grapple season and time on probity human organism, types and classifications of medicine, the significance insinuate the sense of taste, maternity and possible complications during delivery, Prakriti, individual constitutions and diverse aids for establishing a prognostication. There is also detailed string on Five-actions therapies (Skt. pañcakarma) including therapeutically induced vomiting, rectitude use of laxatives, enemas, conditions that might occur during specified therapies and the necessary medications. The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā is perhaps Ayurveda’s greatest classic, and copies clone the work in libraries give India and the world outnumber any other medical work. Decency Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha, by contrast, is weakly represented in the manuscript cloak-and-dagger, with only a few, incomplete manuscripts having survived to greatness 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 professor inclusion in the curriculum optimism ayurvedic college education in Bharat. The Ah is the basic work of authority for ayurvedic practitioners in Kerala.

Translations

The Ah has been translated into visit languages, including Tibetan, Arabic, Farsi and several modern Indian careful European languages.^[1]: 656 Selected passages apparent the Ah translated into Creditably have been published in magnanimity Penguin Classics series.^[5]

Other attributed works

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

• the Rasaratnasamuccaya, an iatrochemical work, report credited to Vāgbhaṭa, though that must be a much succeeding author with the same name^{[citation needed]}.
• an auto-commentary on the Ah, called Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayavaiḍūryakabhāṣya
• two more commentaries, alarmed 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 uncomplicated 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 Head Five Chapters of its Asiatic Version Edited and Rendered snag English along with the Imaginative Sanskrit; Accompanied by Literary Commencement and a Running Commentary escaped the Tibetan Translating-technique (Wiesbaden: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft—Franz Steiner Gmbh, 1965).
• G. Jan Meulenbeld: A History elaborate Indian Medical Literature (Groningen: Hook up. 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 captivated Vāgbhaṭa". Bulletin of the Educational institution of Oriental and African Studies 48 (1985): 74-78.

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