Sharngadharasamhita, Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā, Sharngadhara-samhita: 4 definitions

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Sharngadharasamhita means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

The Sanskrit term Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā can be transliterated into English as Sarngadharasamhita or Sharngadharasamhita, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā (शार्ङ्गधरसंहिता) refers to a 13th century Sanskrit text which represents a watershed moment in the history of the use of mercury in Indian medicine.—The Śārṅgadhara-Saṃhitā presents an elaborately formulated system of processing and using mercury only alluded to in the older medical works. Its long chapter on mercury contains one rather complicated recipe for the purification of mercury (rasaśodhana), two recipes for extracting mercury from cinnabar (daradaśodhana), four recipes for giving mercury a ‘mouth’ to ‘devour’ other metals, four recipes for the ‘killing’, i.e. turning into ash of mercury, and nearly fifty recipes for medicines prepared from the above products. The recipes for mercury medicines that follow are diverse in production methods, ways in which they are applied and diseases they are meant to treat. A common denominator of all recipes is the occurrence of sulfur as one of the ingredients. Mercury is ingested mixed with honey or ghee, as a beverage or in the form of pills. [...]

Source: Equinox Publishing: Mercury Tonics (Rasāyana) in Sanskrit Medical Literature

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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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Sanskrit dictionary

1) Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā (शार्ङ्गधरसंहिता) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—med. by Śārṅgadhara, son of Dāmodara. Io. 942. 2057. 2791. W. p. 281. 285. Oxf. 315^a. L. 790. K. 220. 222. B. 4, 246 (and—[commentary]). Ben. 63-65. Kāṭm. 13. Pheh. 2. Rādh. 33 (and—[commentary]). NW. 590. 596. Oudh. Xiii, 110. Np. V, 130. 194 (and—[commentary]). Burnell. 66^b. Poona. 275. H. 348. Oppert. 1370. 4069. Ii, 6609. W. 1749 ([fragmentary]).
—Dhātumāraṇa. B. 4, 226. Sūtrasthāna B. 4, 246. It is quoted in Vāsudevānubhava W. p. 289, in Ṭoḍarānanda W. p. 290.
—[commentary] Rādh. 44.
—[commentary] Śārṅgadharaśārīraṭīkā. B. 4, 246.
—[commentary] by Āḍhamalla. K. 222. B. 4, 246.
—[commentary] Gūḍhāntadīpikā by Kāśīrāma. W. p. 286 ([fragmentary]). [Oudh 1876-1877], 32. Xi, 34.
—[commentary] by Rudradhara Bhaṭṭa. Rādh. 33.
—[commentary] by Vopadeva. W. p. 285.

2) Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā (शार्ङ्गधरसंहिता):—med. by the same Śārṅgadhara. Oudh. Xx, 254. Peters. 4, 41. Rgb. 950. Stein 191. Quoted by Trimalla in Yogataraṅgiṇī, Catal. Io. p. 956.
—[commentary] Gūḍhārthadīpikā by Kāśīrāma. Oudh. Xxi, 174.

3) Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā (शार्ङ्गधरसंहिता):—med. by Śārṅgadhara, son of Dāmodara. Ulwar 1694.
—[commentary] by Āḍhamalla, son of Bhāvasiṃha. Ulwar 1695. Extr. 442.

4) Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā (शार्ङ्गधरसंहिता):—med. by the same. As p. 199 (2 Mss. one inc.). Ashburner 3. 4 (inc.). Bd. 918. L.. 1197. 1198 (inc.). 1199 ([fragmentary]). Tb. 155. 156 ([fragmentary]). C. by Āḍhamalla. Ak 952 (first two parts only). Bd. 919 (inc.).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā (शार्ङ्गधरसंहिता):—[=śārṅga-dhara-saṃhitā] [from śārṅga-dhara > śārṅga] f. Name of a medical [work]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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