Ayurveda can be defined as the system of medicine described in the great medical encyclopedias associated with the names Caraka, Suśruta, and Bheḷa, compiled and re-edited over several centuries from about 200 BC to about AD 500 and written in Sanskrit.

The compendium of Suśruta, the Suśrutasamhitā defines the purpose of medicine to cure the diseases of the sick, protect the healthy, and to prolong life.

Suśruta, whose curiosity is aroused by a particular plant, approaches muni Kāśirāja, enquiring about the nature of this plant.

Mentioned by name are the following sages: Ātreya, Hārīta, Parāśara, Bhela, Garga, Śāmbavya, Suśruta, Vasiṣṭha, Karāla, and Kāpya.

authorities, and may be based on similar types of medical writings antedating the composition of the saṃhitās of Caraka, Suśruta and others.

The description tallies with those in the Bṛhat Saṃhitā, a 6th century CE encyclopedia and the major epic Mahabharata, which makes particular reference to the wealth of the Kambojas.

During the days of the Ayuddha dynasty, Sthaneshwar, Matsya and Panchala Desh, are described in the Bṛhat Saṃhitā as forming a part of the Madhyadesha or Middle Kingdom ; Saharanpur was also ruled by the Ayuddha Dynasty, but this did not continue for long.

The Taittirīya Saṃhitā thus belongs to this Yajurveda.

337 – 422 AD ) wrote about the health care system of the Gupta empire ( 320 – 550 ) and described the institutional approach of Indian medicine, also visible in the works of Charaka, who mentions a clinic and how it should be equipped.

Charaka Monument in the Pantanjali Yogpeeth Campus, Haridwar, IndiaCharaka, sometimes spelled Caraka, born c. 300 BC was one of the principal contributors to the ancient art and science of Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in Ancient India.

According to the Charaka tradition, there existed six schools of medicine, founded by the disciples of the sage Punarvasu Ātreya.

While he was primarily influenced by Greek and Islamic medicine, he was also influenced by the Indian medical teachings of Sushruta and Charaka.

For example in the medicine of the Vedic period of ancient India, the Ayurvedic text Charaka Samhita discusses epilepsy, with a discussion of both symptoms and of possible treatments.

According Surendranath Dasgupta, scholar of Indian philosophy, Charaka Samhita, an ancient Indian medical treatise, also contains thoughts from an early Samkhya school.

A work known as the Charaka Samhita from circa 600 BC, part of the Hindu Ayurveda (" knowledge of life "), saw ill health as resulting from an imbalance among three kinds of bodily fluids or forces called ( Dosha ).

The medical treatises of Charaka and Sushruta mention wildlife from the point of view of the meats the forests yielded and their associated attributes.

Charaka studied the anatomy of the human body and various organs.

Many other herbs and minerals used in Ayurveda were later described by ancient Indian herbalists such as Charaka and Sushruta during the 1st millennium BC.

Many herbs and minerals used in Ayurveda were described by ancient Indian herbalists such as Charaka and Sushruta during the 1st millennium BC.

Its two most famous texts belong to the schools of Charaka, born c. 600 BCE, and Sushruta, born 600 BCE.

Examples are the Sushruta Samhita written in the 3rd or 4th century CE, which recommends beef for certain patients and for pregnant women, and the Charaka Samhita which describes meat as superior to all other kinds of food for convalescents.

According to the compendium of Charaka, the Charakasamhitā, health and disease are not predetermined and life may be prolonged by human effort.

The following statements are attributed to Acharya Charaka:

Other early works of ayurveda include the Charaka Samhita, attributed to Charaka.

The medical works of both Sushruta and Charaka were translated into the Arabic language during the Abbasid Caliphate ( ca.

Other early works of Ayurveda include the Charaka Samhita, attributed to Charaka.

Early names include Patanjali, the author of the Mahabhashya commentary on Pāṇini's grammar, suggested by some to have been the same to write the Hindu treatise known as the Yogasutra, and Dridhbala, who revised the Charaka Samhita of Ayurveda.

Galen, Hippocrates, Sushruta and Charaka were pre-eminent authorities.

In addition to the Mahābhāṣya and Yoga Sūtras, the 11th-century commentary on Charaka by the Bengali scholar Cakrapāṇidatta, and the 16th c. text Patanjalicarita ascribes to Patañjali a medical text called the Carakapratisaṃskṛtaḥ ( now lost ) which is apparently a revision ( pratisaṃskṛtaḥ ) of the medical treatise by Caraka.

The Charaka Samhita text is arguably the principal classic reference.

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Buddhists also claim that Charaka was Buddhist.

(( These remarks appear obvious today, though they were often not heeded, and were made by Charaka, in his famous Ayurvedic treatise Charaka Samhita.

Charaka was the first physician to present the concept of digestion, metabolism and immunity.

Charaka knew the fundamentals of genetics.

However, it was only when Charaka revised this treatise that it gained popularity and came to be known as Charakasamhita.

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After attending the Boston University Law School for a short time, he held several jobs, including selling encyclopedias, before he decided to attend the North Carolina Central University Law School, from which he graduated in 1964.

He does this even though most of his education is derived from reading an incomplete set of encyclopedias that he happens to find as a boy in his mother's apartment.

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The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (; transliterated Bolshaya sovetskaya entsiklopediya ) is one of the largest and most comprehensive Russian encyclopedias in the world, issued by the Soviet state from 1926 to 1990, and again since 2002 ( under the name Bolshaya Rossiyskaya entsiklopediya or " Great Russian Encyclopedia ").

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