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The Sharngadhara-paddhati is one of the best known collections of the subhashita-genre poems. [2] It contains a description of Hatha Yoga. James Mallinson calls the text's analysis of yoga "somewhat confused", noting that it splits Hatha Yoga into two types, namely Gorakhnath's and Markandeya's, and then equates Hatha Yoga with Gorakhnath's six limbs of yoga, which are asana, pranayama ...
[2] [21] [13] The Charaka Samhita was also updated by Dridhabala during the early centuries of the Common Era. [153] Statue of Charaka, ancient Indian physician, in Haridwar, India. The Bower Manuscript (dated to the early 6th century CE [154]) includes of excerpts from the Bheda Samhita [155] and its description of concepts in Central Asian ...
The Charaka Samhita (IAST: Caraka-Saṃhitā, “Compendium of Charaka”) is a Sanskrit text on Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine). [1] [2] Along with the Sushruta Samhita, it is one of the two foundational texts of this field that have survived from ancient India. [3] [4] [5] It is one of the three works that constitute the Brhat Trayi.
Samhita is a Sanskrit word from the prefix sam (सम्), 'together', and hita (हित), the past participle of the verbal root dhā (धा) 'put'. [4] [5] The combination word thus means "put together, joined, compose, arrangement, place together, union", something that agrees or conforms to a principle such as dharma or in accordance with justice, and "connected with". [1]
Charaka was one of the principal contributors to Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in ancient India.He is known as a physician who edited the medical treatise entitled Charaka Samhita, one of the foundational texts of classical Indian medicine and Ayurveda, included under Brhat-Trayi.
'Acharya' Sarangdhar is a teacher, Hindi writer, poet, essayist, story writer and scholar. He has penned books on Hindi 'vyakaran', essays, poems and is a columnist in various Hindi and Bhojpuri magazines published from India and abroad.
The samhita, pada and krama pathas can be described as the natural recitation styles or prakrutipathas. The remaining eight modes of chanting are classified as complex recitation styles or Vikrutipathas as they involve reversing of the word order. The backward chanting of words does not alter the meanings in the Vedic (Sanskrit) language. [5]
Charaka shapath (or, Charaka oath) is a certain passage of text in Charaka Samhita, a Sanskrit text on Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine) believed to have been composed between 100 BCE and 200 CE. The passage referred to as Charaka Shapath is written in the form a set of instructions by a teacher to prospective students of the science of ...