Pratyaksha-Shārīram : a textbook of human anatomy in Sanskrit with an English and a Sanskrit introduction, containing a short history of Ayurvedic literature / by Gananath Sen.
- Gananath Sen
- Date:
- 1913
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Pratyaksha-Shārīram : a textbook of human anatomy in Sanskrit with an English and a Sanskrit introduction, containing a short history of Ayurvedic literature / by Gananath Sen. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Buddhism Vs. Ayurvedic literature. [ 10 ] passing^ that the decline of Buddhism practically synchronised with the decline of Hindu Medicine, even though the Buddhists were no great friends to Anatomy, ihe chronicles of Buddhism clearH' show that in the monasteries of Nalnada and Taksha-shilla {Taxilla)^t\vo branches of literature were studied parti- cularly—viz. Hetu Shastra or Logic and Chikitsa Shastra or Medicine. Benevolence beinof the watch- word of Buddhism, there was no lack of hospitals and medical charities both for men and animals during the reigns of Asoka^ Bimbisara and other Buddhist princes. We hear the name of the famous physi- cian Jivakai^i)—Komarahliachcha'^ or Kaumarhhritya, the accoucheur ?) in connection with the court of the king Bimbisara, Both he and his great teacher Bhiksliu Atreya are said to have attended the ^reat Buddha himself and his followers. Again the famous Buddhist patriarch Nagarjuna is believed by many to have been the reviser and recompiler of the present day Sushruta Samhita. Bagbhata^ the well known A3mrvedic author of reputation next only to that of Charaka and Sushruta^ was also a Buddhist of Sind who lived probably in the 5th or 6th century A. D. He has left us two valuable works, t\\Q Ashtanga Samgraha the Ashtanga Hridaya^—which ma}^ he called a large and a small camprehensive epitome of Ayurvedic literature^^^^^. It appears from a close study of these works, however, that the decline of Ayurveda had already begun in Bagbhataks time, when finding (21) For references to Jivaka, see .‘Sanskrit Introduction, p. (=g), text and footnote. (22) The view that the author of the first book was different from the author of the second, recently originated, has been refuted in the Sanskrit Introduction,, p. 25.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28986003_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
