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Subject: History Of Medicine Item type: Chapter Collections: History and Classics, Department of

  • The path to liberation through yogic mindfulness in early Ayurveda

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    2012

    Wujastyk, Dominik

    Introduction: It can come as a surprise to discover that buried in one of the earliest medical treatises in Sanskrit is a short tract on the yogic path to liberation. This tract-a mere thirty-nine verses-occurs in the Chapter on the Embodied Person (Satirasthana) in the Compendium of Caraka...

  • The science of medicine

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    2003

    Wujastyk, Dominik

    Introduction: Indian medicine, as a systematic and scholarly tradition, begins historically with the appearance of the great medical encyclopedias of Caraka, Su ́sruta and Bhela about two thousand years ago.1 These are the oldest Indian medical texts we have, and also the most influential. Just...

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