CARAKA SUTRA STHANA ADHYAAYA ANUKRAMANIKA

Ayurveda

Caraka samhita is an ancient Indian Ayurvedic medical text. It deals with the aspects of health and disease. Health which is the basis to attain the chaturvidha purusharthas is explained and the measures to keep up the health are described. It also describes various diseases and the treatments of them. It is a medical compendium and the contents are seemed to be arranged in a sophisticated way which makes it to achieve the qualities of a medical text. Caraka sutra sthana adhyaaya anukramanika is the description of the connecting link between the contents of an adhyaya to that of the contents of following adhyaaya which is an enthusiastic step to know & understand the (moola) basic contents in sutra sthana of Caraka samhita and their link.This article is an approach to understand the contents of a part of the text Sutra sthana from Caraka samhita which holds all the basic principles of Ayurveda. The order of contents and the justification of such an order are dealt to understand the structure of medical text.

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