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Ayurveda (science of life)
Source: INSA Digital Repository: Caraka’s Approach to KnowledgePestilence is one of the contributing factors of a destructive Habitat, that is to be cured by following a righteous code of living, according to the Caraka Samhita Vimāna 3.20-24.—Caraka was probably a witness to wars, plunder, punitive taxation, famine, pestilence, mass evacuation of towns and places and the total collapse of civilized living. He traced these disasters to the greed, corruption and aggression of rulers and the progressive decline in the moral fibre of the entire society. The sovereign prophylaxis and remedy for the destruction of the habitat was the recovery of a righteous code of living. Anything less would fail to prevent ruin and extinction
Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
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The Indian Buddhist Iconography (by Benoytosh Bhattachacharyya)
Kautilya Arthashastra (by R. Shamasastry)
Chapter 3 - Remedies against National Calamities < [Book 4 - Removal of Thorns]
Chapter 4 - Molestations, Obstructions and Financial Troubles < [Book 8 - Concerning Vices and Calamities]
Chapter 2 - March of the Camp < [Book 10 - Relating to War]
History of Indian Medicine (and Ayurveda) (by Shree Gulabkunverba Ayurvedic Society)
Chapter 26 - State and Medicine < [Part 2-3 - Medical Institutions in Ancient India]
Chapter 15 - Village and Medicine < [Part 2-3 - Medical Institutions in Ancient India]
Chapter 18 - Military Surgery < [Part 2-3 - Medical Institutions in Ancient India]
Tiruvaymoli (Thiruvaimozhi): English translation (by S. Satyamurthi Ayyangar)
Pasuram 4.9.5 < [Section 9 - Ninth Tiruvaymoli (Nannatar Muruvalippa)]
Pasuram 10.8.3 < [Section 8 - Eighth Tiruvaymoli (Tirumaliruncolai)]
Pasuram 3.3.9 < [Section 3 - Third Tiruvaymoli (Olivu il kalam)]
Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra (by Helen M. Johnson)
Part 5: Story of the bull < [Chapter III - Mahāvīra’s first six years as an ascetic]
Notes on Atiśaya (supernatural powers) < [Notes]
Part 3: Story of the Yakṣa and painter < [Chapter VIII - Initiation of ṛṣabhadatta and devānandā]
Life Thirst < [July – September, 1988]
Sangyong < [December 1937]
A Philosophy of History < [April 1952]