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The story of spread and dissemination of Buddhism and Hinduism in South East Asia and Far East is really a thrilling story of Indian missionaries whose brilliant efforts in those far off lands constitute a fascinating chapter in the cultural history of the world. Unfortunately, the early Indian records have nothing to say about the activities of these noble sons of India. It is from the literatures and epigraphic records of those countries that we know their ...
The Rural World faces a profound challenges. It is already home to about three quarters of the world's poorest people and faces the challenging conditions of increasingly limited resources such as Land Water and Power etc. Yet, we expect rural lands to intensify production and feed more persons in the coming decades. We expect the rural world to care for the ecosystem that agriculture has played a part in degrading. We expect that the rural world can offer ...
Yogaratnakara the book of mid seventeenth century, written by yet unknown author, but extremely well known in the ayurvedic world, is like a sun, throwing light on all aspects of ayurveda not seen in any other available book on ayurveda, however, since the book is compiled in the period when surgery was almost not being done by ayurvedist thus the references of subject matter related to salyavijnana of (surgery) are scanty; knowledge of sarira (anatomy) being ...
Vrndamadhava, a ninth century book also named as 'Siddhayoga' with commentary of Sri Kanthadatta/Naraina, dealing exclusively with the treatment of diseases described on the pattern of 'Madhavanidana' is a first book of its kind in Ayurveda. Available second edition, albeit scarcely, i.e. 'Vrndamadhavaparanamaka Siddhayogah' is based on six manuscripts, amongst which dates of only three mss are mentioned, which range within a span of ten ...