File:चरकसंहिता of चरक. (IA dli.granth.16014).pdf

Script: Devanagari Handwriting

Notes/Description: Carakasanhita is one of the oldest works on Medicine, originally composed by Agnives’a,pupil of Punarvasu Atreya and a fellow-student of Bheda, and afterwards remodelled by Caraka.Caraka was a court-physician of King Kaniska,according to the Chinese Tripitaka (translated in 472 A. D. ), and thus possibly lived in the second century A. D. Cf. Takakusu, Itsing,p. LIX; I. A., vol. 32, p. 382; Dietz, Anal. Medi.,pp. 127-28; Keith, Z. D. M. G., vol. 62, p. 136 ;Hoernle, Osteology, pp. 1-4; 9. Jolly, Medicine,p. 11; Winternitz, Geschichte, III. pp. 545-7 and G. Mukhopadhyaya, Surgical Instruments, I.pp. 4-10. Nearly one-third of the work was added in the 8th or 9th century A. D., by a Kas’mirian pandit Drdhabala, son of Kapilabala.Cf. Hoernle, Osteology, pp. 1-3; J. R. A. S.,1908, p. 997 ff; 1909, p. 857 ff. It was very early translated into Persian and from that into Arabic about 800 A. D. Patanjali, the author of the Mahabhasya, appears to have cf. G.Mukhopadhyaya, Surgical Instru, vol. I. p. 7.For a full analysis of the work, cf. I. 0., No.2637. It consists of eight sthanas, viz. Sutra,Nidana, Vimana, S’arira, Indriya, Cikitsa, Kalpa,and Siddhi. Rasayana and Vajikarana are, as inthe I. 0. MS., reckoned as two different sthanas in our MS. In the Bombay and the Calcutta editions, the two sections are regarded as two adhyayas of four padas each, belonging to the Cikitsasthana.Our MS. does not contain the Nidanasthana.The first six folios of Vimana are missing. The sthanas are separately paged, the number of folios in each case being as follows :- Sutra, 58; Vimana, 7-26; S’arira, 20; Indriya, 10; Cikitsa, 116 ; Kalpa, 10; and Siddhi, 20. It ends exactly like I. 0., No. 2638.

Source: Asiatic Society of Mumbai
Pages/Folios: Folios: 254 , Lines: 20 , Folio Size in Inches: 13.5 x 8.5
Identifier: MS_00000172
Digitization Sponsor: Government of Maharashtra