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Charak Samhita (Compendium by Charak) is ancient text related to healthcare system being practiced in India. The new contemporary edition of Charak Samhita is in progress on this platform.
Charak Samhita (Compendium by Charak) is an ancient text focused on the healthcare system - [[Ayurveda]] being practiced in India. The new contemporary edition of Charak Samhita is in progress on this platform.
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Today, as leading thinkers are searching for more effective definitions of health, [[Ayurveda]] is again in the spotlight. The new edition of the [[Charak Samhita]], with updated inferences and applications, is one step in re-initiating that process of interaction between teachers and scholars to help researchers in their quest for more effective solutions to problems of health.
Today, as leading thinkers are searching for more effective definitions of health, [[Ayurveda]] is again in the spotlight. The new edition of the [[Charak Samhita]], with updated inferences and applications, is one step in re-initiating that process of interaction between teachers and scholars to help researchers in their quest for more effective solutions to problems of health.
==Tradition of knowledge transfer==
==Origin of Charak Samhita ==
As mentioned earlier, the [[Charak Samhita]] epitomizes one of the finest examples of classical ''Vedic'' teacher-student (''Guru-Shishya'') interactions ever recorded, either in ancient or modern times. Though literally meaning the “Compendium of Charak”, it was actually authored by Agnivesh, an ancient physician of renown. Charak redacted the text called the Agnivesha tantra, believed to have been written circa 1000 BCE by Agnivesha, a disciple of the legendary Vedic sage, Punarvasu Atreya. There are no chronological records marking the evolution of the body of knowledge that is [[Ayurveda]], but it is speculated that Charak lived sometime in the 8th century, BCE. A scholar named Dridhabala (300 CE) redacted and also worked on to restore some lost portions of the text.
As mentioned earlier, the [[Charak Samhita]] epitomizes one of the finest examples of classical ''Vedic'' teacher-student (''Guru-Shishya'') interactions ever recorded, either in ancient or modern times. Though literally meaning the “Compendium of Charak”, it was actually authored by Agnivesh, an ancient physician of renown. Charak redacted the text called the Agnivesha tantra, believed to have been written circa 1000 BCE by Agnivesha, a disciple of the legendary Vedic sage, Punarvasu Atreya. There are no chronological records marking the evolution of the body of knowledge that is [[Ayurveda]], but it is speculated that Charak lived sometime in the 8th century, BCE. A scholar named Dridhabala (300 CE) redacted and also worked on to restore some lost portions of the text.