Concept of Agni in Ayurveda (With Special Reference to Agnibala Pariksa)
Book Details
Author(s)Vd. Bhagwan Dash
PublisherChaukhambha Amarabharati Prakashan
ISBN / ASINB00ON6VDH6
ISBN-13978B00ON6VDH6
Sales Rank99,999,999
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Language: English
Pages: 228
Preface
The thesis on the Concept of Agni in Agurveda with Special Reference to Agnibala-pariksa was one of the nine I had to personally guide and direct when I was working as the Professor of Kayacikitsa at the Post Graduate Training Centre in Ayurveda, Jamnagar. This thesis was ranked first by the eminent adjudicators to whom it was referred. The present publication of it in the form of a book involving some minor changes is meant to provide carefully assessed and critically evaluated data gathered by Shri Bhagwan Dash for the benefit of teachers, Post-Graduate students and Research workers in the field of Ayurveda.
Recent researches in the history of the evolution of medicine in India have shown that by about the third millennium B.C., the medical knowledge had reached its apogee and crystalised into broad based generalizations, positive concepts and principles. There is evidence to show that these concepts and principles represented a high stage of development of medicine at that time. It is recognized today that Ayurveda itself was the outcome of changes on an evolving society. Accordingly, many practices were susceptible to modifications or changes in keeping with the needs of growing urban community. However, the savants of Ayurveda took care to enunciate some of the basic concepts and principles in such a manner as to enable their application at all times, regardless of the changes in the social, environmental and other conditions. It is thus seen that, both Agnivesa and Vagbhata laid emphasis on ten important factors that may have to be examined before arriving at a diagnosis and the determination of the line of treatment in any given disease, regardless of whether they have been described in the classical text or not. The ten factors referred to above are: prakrti, vikrti, sara, samhanana, pramana, satmya, sattva, aharasakti, vyay
Pages: 228
Preface
The thesis on the Concept of Agni in Agurveda with Special Reference to Agnibala-pariksa was one of the nine I had to personally guide and direct when I was working as the Professor of Kayacikitsa at the Post Graduate Training Centre in Ayurveda, Jamnagar. This thesis was ranked first by the eminent adjudicators to whom it was referred. The present publication of it in the form of a book involving some minor changes is meant to provide carefully assessed and critically evaluated data gathered by Shri Bhagwan Dash for the benefit of teachers, Post-Graduate students and Research workers in the field of Ayurveda.
Recent researches in the history of the evolution of medicine in India have shown that by about the third millennium B.C., the medical knowledge had reached its apogee and crystalised into broad based generalizations, positive concepts and principles. There is evidence to show that these concepts and principles represented a high stage of development of medicine at that time. It is recognized today that Ayurveda itself was the outcome of changes on an evolving society. Accordingly, many practices were susceptible to modifications or changes in keeping with the needs of growing urban community. However, the savants of Ayurveda took care to enunciate some of the basic concepts and principles in such a manner as to enable their application at all times, regardless of the changes in the social, environmental and other conditions. It is thus seen that, both Agnivesa and Vagbhata laid emphasis on ten important factors that may have to be examined before arriving at a diagnosis and the determination of the line of treatment in any given disease, regardless of whether they have been described in the classical text or not. The ten factors referred to above are: prakrti, vikrti, sara, samhanana, pramana, satmya, sattva, aharasakti, vyay
