Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

INSTITUTION FOR THE DIFFUSION OF AYURVEDIC KNOWLEDGE.

An Association of Kavirajes has been established in Calcutta under the name of “ Ayurvedic Institute.” The immediate object is a diffusion of the knowledge of the Hindu Medical Scrip¬ tures by means of popular lectures. The proceedings of the first meeting are circulated herewith. The ultimate object of the Insti¬ tute is the establishment of an Ayurvedic College, with an Hospital attached to it where patients may be treated according to the Ayurvedic method and the results published in a journal. A garden for the cultivation of the plants, &c., which furnish the ingredients of Ayurvedic medicines, is also in contemplation.

We respectfully invite expressions of opinion from the thinking portion of the Indian community. We shall, indeed, be greatly obliged if men of culture kindly communicate their views to us on this all-important subject.

Calcutta, I

200 Cornwallis Street, \ AVINASH CHANDRA KAVIRATNA. 18-6-1902. J

AYURVEDIC INSTITUTE.

Under the above name an Association has been organised having for its object the diffusion, by popular lectures, of a know¬ ledge of the Ayurveda or the medical literature of ancient India. A meeting was convened under the auspices of the Institute at 5-30 P. M. of Friday, the 16th of May, at No. 200 Cornwallis street, Calcutta. Among those present were Maharajah Bahadur Sir Jotindra Mohan Tagore, K. c, S. L, Rai Yatindra Nath Chowdhury, M, A., B. L., Babu Rama Nath Ghose, Babu Narendra Nath Sen, Babu Nilamvar Mukerjee, M. A., Mr. R. N, Mukerjee (of Messrs. Martin & Co.), Babu Bhola Nath Pal, M. A., Pandit Bireswar Pande, Kaviraj Dwarika Nath Sen, Kaviraj Bijaya Ratna Sen, Kaviraj Baranasi Gupta, Kaviraj Jogendra Nath Sen, M. A., Kaviraj Nogendra Nath Sen, Kaviraj Debendra Nath Sen, Kaviraj Hari Nath Vidyaratna, Kaviraj Tara Prasanna Sen Gupta, Babu Gooru •Das Chatterjee, Babu Kisori Mohan Ganguli, Pandit Tejas Chan¬ dra Vidyananda, Dr. Kherod Chandra Datta, M. B., Babu Sarada Prasad Chatterjee, Babu Amrita Lai Banerjee, Kaviraj Shyam Kishore Sen, Gobinda Chandra Ghosh, pleader, High Court and others of note.

Maharaja Bahadur Sir Narendra Krishna Deb, K, C. I. E, attend¬ ed the meeting but the state of his health and prior arrangements prevented him from remaining in it. In accordance with the desire of Maharaja Sir Jatindra Mohan Tagore, K. C. S. I., Dr. Kherod Chandra Datta, M. B. moved that Kaviraj Dwaraka Nath Sen take the chair. The motion was carried by acclamation. The inaugural address was delivered, extempore , by Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna, the editor and publisher of Charaka, Susruta, Chikitsa-sammilani and other works. The speaker dwelt upon the importance of Charaka as a work on morbid pathology, theraputics, and hygeine with fervid eloquence and emotion. Charaka has now begun to be translated into English. Seeing only a few fasciculi, Oriental Scholars of world-wide celebrity, and some of the most .eminent medical men of both Europe and America, have expressed a unstinted admiration of the wisdom of the Rishis of ancient India. Some of those grand truths whose discovery has shed a brilliancy on the century which has just passed away and which are regarded as veritable gems in the crown of modern science, were, it seems, well known to the Rishis. The testimony offered by credible

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witnesses would bear repetition. Professor Max Muller says, — ■“ I am surprised that your excellent and most useful translation has not attracted more attention. * * * Our Regius