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    Charaka was one of the principal contributors to Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in ancient India. He is known as a physician who...
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    The Charaka Samhita (IAST: Caraka-Saṃhitā, “Compendium of Charaka”) is a Sanskrit text on Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine). Along with the Sushruta...
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  • Charaka shapath (or, Charaka oath) is a certain passage of text in Charaka Samhita, a Sanskrit text on Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine) believed...
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    Charakas (Greek: Χάρακας) is a village and a community in the municipal unit of Asterousia on Crete, Greece with about 800 inhabitants. It is about 45 km...
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  • pupil Bhela, the author of the text. It shows many similarities with the Charaka Samhita, another text of the Atreya school, but it also shows some similarities...
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    and Kaurava princes in the Mahabharata. Bharadvaja is also mentioned in Charaka Samhita, an authoritative ancient Indian medical text. The word Bharadvaja...
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  • The original contents of Charaka Samhita are credited to Atreya, which were in turn codified and edited by Agnivesha and Charaka. According to Surendranath...
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  • text of the Indian medical system of Ayurveda written by Charaka Charaka shapath or Charaka oath, a set of instructions for students of medicine, the...
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  • preceptor, Atreya, and arranged it in the form of a treatise, named the Charaka Samhita. Agnivesha is described to be the chief pupil of Punarvasu Atreya...
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    in his book Agnivesha Tantra and later by Charaka (Charaka Samhita, encyclopedia of the physician Charaka). Others[who?] say the great surgeon Sushruta...
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