Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

( Already quoted on the wrapper of the 9th fasciculus. )

The Pandit is an enthusiast in the cause. Of Hindu Medical Science. Much credit is due to him for his efforts in diffusing a knowledge of the ancient medical scriptures of India. Locked in a difficult toiigue, many valuable truths seem to have been well known to. the Bisliis.

\From the American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record, New York , May 24, 1894.] It contains many curious and valuable facts pertaining to the ancient practice of medicine by Hindu sages, and must be regarded as a valuable contribution to the native literature of India.

[ From Popular Science News, of New York, May, 1894.] The eighth part of the English translation of this very remarkable medical work has just been published. If any one has imagined that all ancient medicine was mummery or superstition, nothing could more quickly undeceive them than this. It was composed six hundred years before the Christian era, and yet it, in many ways, puts to shame. European medical lore prior to the great advances of the present century. The translator is a Hindoo physician and medical editor well qualified for his task, as is manifest in the fact that Prof. Max Muller and other eminent Orientalists have com¬ mended it. He is rendering a truly valuable service to medical history and human progress. . ,

[ From Meyer Brothers’ Druggist of St. Louis , May, ,15.94. 1 This is a work which should be a part of every' medical and pharmaceutical library in the world. It is of importance as well as interest to read the facts carefully.

[ From, the Western Druggist, of Chicago, June, J594-]

Charaka-Samhita. Part VIII of this great work of ancient Hindu medicine, so excellently translated into English by Dr. Avinash Chundra Kaviratna of Calcutta, now lies before us. Its contents are extremely interesting. The true nature of wind, bile and phlegm, the evils brought oh by .obesity and leanness, and the means by which, these may be got rid of, and the purposes served by sleep in the economy of the human constitution are subjects discussed in this fascicule. They demand attention from every thoughtful person. It may be well bo recall to mind the fact that this arduous work has not been undertaken by the indefatigable translator from motives of pecuniary profit. This task and the risk of publication has been undertaken solely from a desire to draw the attention of the modern world to the truths that, iie buried in this interesting relic of the Eishis of ancient India. It is to be hoped that he will meet . with sufficient encouragement to bring the work to a successful finish.

[ From the Behar Times, of July,' 20, liS9Jt. ]

The Charaka-Samhita. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna is a well-known Ayurvedic practitioner of Calcutta and Translator and Editor of several Ayurvedic books and journals. The Kaviraj is at present engaged on an English translation of Charaka -Samhita, the best authority bn Hindu Medicine and Hygiene, described by him-) as “the greatest scientific work of ancient Indian wisdom.” The translation is being issued in monthly parts, of which several have already appeared ; and the Translator has earned the approbation and the gratitude of the world of learning as well for the manner as the matter of his translation. Charaka-Samhita is undoubtedly a work of which any nation may be proud ; and Kaviraj Avinash Chandra, by placing it before the Western world iii an English garb, has not only enriched the Western world, but has done a service to his own country, by attracting to it the admiration of foreign savants and scientists. Some of the most eminent men of Europe and America have written appreciatingly of the work undertaken by Kaviraj Avinash Chander, and the parts already, issued have been favourably reviewed by the leading papers in England, : and India. Kaviratna’s enterprise deserves success and ought to command ready support in India.

PART XI.

CHARAKA-SAMHITA

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.

PUBLISHED BY

AVINASH CHANDRA KAVIRATNA,

Editor of Charaka-Samhita and of Susruta-Samhita

(in original) WITH COMMENTARIES; BENGALI AND

Hindi translator of Charaka-Samhita and of Susruta-Samhita; editor of ChikitsaSammilani ( Medical Journal in Bengali) ; PRACTITIONER OF the Hindu System of Medicine,

&c., &c., &c.

Calcutta;

Printed by D. C. Dass & Co., “Corinthian Press,” 33, New China Bazar and

Published at soo, Cornwallis Street.

( The right of translation is reserved. )