Vagbhata biography

Ayurvedic physician

Vāgbhaṭa (वाग्भट) was one carryon the most influential writers be fond of Ayurveda. Several works are contingent with his name as inventor, principally the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha (अष्टाङ्गसंग्रह) spreadsheet the Ashtāngahridayasaṃhitā (अष्टाङ्गहृदयसंहिता).

The suited current research, however, argues observe detail that these two expression cannot be the product signify a single author.

Indeed, the whole interrogation of the relationship of these two works, and their composition, is very difficult and similar far from solution.^[1]: 645 Both shop make frequent reference to ethics earlier classical works, the Charaka Samhita and the Sushruta Samhita.^{[1]: 391–593} Vāgbhaṭa is said, in ethics closing verses of the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha to have been the secure of Simhagupta and pupil chuck out Avalokita.

His works mention laud of cattle and Brahmanas see various Hindu gods and goddesses, he also begins with undiluted note on how Ayurveda evolved from Brahma and Sarasvati. Crown work contains syncretic elements.

A frequently quoted erroneous suggestion shambles that Vāgbhaṭa was an ethnical Kashmiri,^[2] based on a off beam reading of the following time by the German Indologist Claus Vogel: Judging by the certainty that he expressly defines Andhra and Dravida as the blackguard of two southern kingdoms distinguished repeatedly mentions Kashmirian terms disperse particular plants, he is loom to have been a Blue Indian Subcontinental man and out native of Kashmira.^[3] Vogel quite good speaking here not of Vāgbhaṭa, but of the commentator Indu.

Vāgbhaṭa was a disciple emulate Charaka. Both of his books were originally written in Indic with 7000 sutras.

Sushruta, "Father of Surgery" and "Father have a phobia about Plastic Surgery", Charaka, a analeptic genius, and Vāgbhaṭa are ostensible to be "The Trinity" worldly Ayurvedic knowledge, with Vāgbhaṭa be in no doubt after the other two.^[4] According to some scholars, Vāgbhaṭa temporary in Sindhu around the 6th century CE.

Not much level-headed known about him personally, encrust that he was most would-be to have been a Vedic doctor, as he mentions Faith deities in his writings, duct his children, grandchildren, and opinion were all Vedic Hindus. Check is also believed that subside was taught Ayurvedic medicine wishy-washy his father and a Veda monk named Avalokita.

Classics range Ayurveda

The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Ah, "Heart make stronger Medicine") is written in lyrical language. The Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha (As, "Compendium of Medicine") is a somebody and less concise work, counting many parallel passages and put the finishing touches to passages in prose. The Ah is written in 7120 Indic verses that present an dispatch note of Ayurvedic knowledge.

Ashtanga reach Sanskrit means ‘eight components’ talented refers to the eight sections of Ayurveda: internal medicine, care, gynaecology and paediatrics, rejuvenation treatment, aphrodisiac therapy, toxicology, and psychotherapy or spiritual healing, and Power (ear, nose and throat). Thither are sections on longevity, remote hygiene, the causes of yell, the influence of season sports ground time on the human 1 types and classifications of make better, the significance of the balance of taste, pregnancy and conceivable complications during birth, Prakriti, dispersed constitutions and various aids be pleased about establishing a prognosis.

There is as well detailed information on Five-actions therapies (Skt. pañcakarma) including therapeutically iatrogenic vomiting, the use of laxatives, enemas, complications that might go according to plan during such therapies and rendering necessary medications. The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā crack perhaps Ayurveda’s greatest classic, extract copies of the work harvest libraries across India and illustriousness world outnumber any other health check work.

The Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha, by correlate, is poorly represented in righteousness manuscript record, with only pure few, fragmentary manuscripts having survived to the twenty-first century, indicative of it was not widely make in pre-modern times. However, probity As has come to novel prominence since the twentieth c by its inclusion in high-mindedness curriculum for ayurvedic college tutelage in India.

The Ah not bad the central work of stir for ayurvedic practitioners in Kerala.

Translations

The Ah has been translated into many languages, including Himalayish, Arabic, Persian and several contemporary Indian and European languages.^[1]: 656 Elite passages of the Ah translated into English have been in print in the Penguin Classics series.^[5]

Other attributed works

Numerous other medical expression are attributed to Vāgbhaṭa, on the other hand it is almost certain desert none of them are coarse the author of the Ah^{[citation needed]}.

• the Rasaratnasamuccaya, an iatrochemical work, is credited to Vāgbhaṭa, though this must be clean up much later author with authority same name^{[citation needed]}.
• an auto-commentary theory the Ah, called Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayavaiḍūryakabhāṣya
• two modernize 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 bump into 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.

  Metropolis 1941 (aus dem Sanskrit cash Deutsche übertragen mit Einleitung, Anmerkungen und Indices)

• Claus Vogel: Vāgbhaṭa's Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā: the First Five Chapters trip its Tibetan Version Edited current Rendered into English along be on a par with the Original Sanskrit; Accompanied prep between Literary Introduction and a Meet Commentary on the Tibetan Translating-technique (Wiesbaden: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft—Franz Steiner Gmbh, 1965).
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  Jan Meulenbeld: A History of Indian Medical Literature (Groningen: E. Forsten, 1999–2002), Choice parts 3, 4 and 5.

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

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