Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna
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200 Cornwallis Street j-AVINASH CHANDRA KAVIRATNA. 12-9-1962. J
Palamau, Bengal The 20th July 1902.
My dear Panditjee,
The XXVIIIth Part of the Charaka-Samhita has just reached me, redirected from Bogra, which place I left in September last. Since then one other Part, I think, I have received, but I thank you all the same for remembering me occasionally. On opening the present Part, I was most agreeably surprised to read, on its very first page, an account of the Ayurvedic Institute which you have started and I could not help exclaiming — “At last.”
For many years past I have silently watched the great revival that is going on all over India. Out of the depths of a dim forgot¬ ten past, wave after wave was being thrown forward by some strange and mysterious force, and on the crest of each, came borne along India’s old religion, her philosophy, her literature, her science and evert some of her manners and customs long since dead. As one huge wave after another came rolling on, each ^grander and more majestic than its predecessor, my heart thrilled in expectancy, but grew weary of waiting for the one I have been straining my vision for, vis., India’s great system of medicine long relegated to the regions of darkness and oblivion. At last it has come and may the Ayurvedic Institute live long an'd help in restoring it to its proper place in the temple of India’s future, in all its ancient majesty and grandeur !
These effusions from a man brought up in an alien system of medicine and practising the same in the service of an alien Govern¬ ment may appear . strange to you, but lama firm believer in “ancient ideals in modern life.” I do not advocate your system in detriment to the one in which I have been brought up, but I take it as one of the many phases of Eternal Truth, as one of the many segments of a great whole yet unknown, and, as such, I wel¬ come its revival and wish your Institute all success. With kindest regards,
Believe me,
My dear Kaviraj-jee,
. Ever yours most sincerely Nobin Chandra Dutt, Civil Medical Officer , Palamau , Pandit Avinash Chandra Kaviratna,
Calcutta.
Kidderpur House. Bedford Park, CROYDON.
ENGLAND. July 1 8th, 1902
My dear Kaviratna Mahashaya,
* * * As I told you when you first spoke to me about your desire to establish the Institute, I take great interest in the project and sincerely hope it will be a success. It was a bad time for our Ayurvedic system of medicine when our countrymen first took to studying allopathic medicine. Most of them discarded our system altogether, and it has not regained its old strength yet although it is gaining ground every day. The mistake our medical men made was in giving up the study of our system. What they ought to have done was to study the Western system in connection with our own, and then take the best of. both and make a new system. Even now the only effort that was made in this direction was by you, through the medium of your “Chikitsa-Sammilani,” and your effort did not receive the encouragement that it ought to have. I am anxious that our system of medicine should be properly studied and brought into harmony with modern disco- ■ veries, particularly in the direction of Surgery. Your Institute, if it receives proper support, will be sure to do this, and I heartily wish it every success.
Hoping you are quite well, and wishing you every success in all your ventures,
I remain,
' Yours most sincerely.
(Sd.) W. C. Bonnerjee.
Pandit Avinash Chandra Kaviratna,
Calcutta,
CHARAKA-SAMHITA.
p. 923
The attributes of particular limbs of the body, vis., coolness, heat, softness, hardness, &c., occur in a state of contrariety. In other parts, a similar condition becomes noticeable,* S3 .
Flowers (Y. e., marks having the shape of flowers) grow on the nails 5 clay-like filth appears on the teeth ; the eyelashes become matted ; lines appear on the head, at which the hair is parted. 54
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