Philosophy of Charaka-samhita
by Asokan. G | 2008 | 88,742 words
Ayurveda, represented by Charaka and Sushruta, stands first among the sciences of Indian intellectual tradition. The Charaka-samhita, ascribed to the great celebrity Charaka, has got three strata. (1) The first stratum is the original work composed by Agnivesha, the foremost of the six disciples of Punarvasu Atreya. He accomplished the work by coll...
Dialectical terms (15): Determination (vyavasāya)
Vyavasāya means determinate cognition in the form of “this is a disease due to predominance of vāyu” or “this is the particular medicine for a particular disease”.[1] Akṣapāda uses this term in the definition of perception in order to characterize it as determinate.[2]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
CS, Vimāna - sthāna, VIII. 47.
[2]:
Nyāyasūtra., I. i. 4