Philosophy of Charaka-samhita
by Asokan. G | 2008 | 88,742 words
Ayurveda, represented by Charaka and Sushruta, stands first among the sciences of Indian intellectual tradition. The Charaka-samhita, ascribed to the great celebrity Charaka, has got three strata. (1) The first stratum is the original work composed by Agnivesha, the foremost of the six disciples of Punarvasu Atreya. He accomplished the work by coll...
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Dialectical terms (15): Determination (vyavas膩ya)
痴测补惫补蝉腻测补 means determinate cognition in the form of 鈥渢his is a disease due to predominance of 惫腻测耻鈥� or 鈥渢his is the particular medicine for a particular disease鈥�.[1] 础办峁辫腻诲补 uses this term in the definition of perception in order to characterize it as determinate.[2]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
CS, Vim膩na - sth膩na, VIII. 47.
[2]:
Ny膩yas奴tra., I. i. 4