Charaka Samhita

Charaka Samhita (, “Ringkasan Charaka”) adalah sebuah teks Sanskerta tentang Ayurweda (pengobatan tradisional India). Bersama dengan Sushruta Samhita, karya tersebut adalah salah satu dari dua teks fundasional dari bidang tersebut yang masih ada dari zaman India kuno. Karya tersebut adalah salah satu dari tiga karya yang memuat Brhat Trayi.

Teks pra-abad ke-2 Masehi tersebut terdiri dari delapan kitab dan seratus dua puluh pasal. Karya tersebut menjabarkan teori-teori kuno tentang raga manusia, etiologi, gejala dan terapi untuk sejumlah besar penyakit. Charaka Samhita juga berisi tentang pengaruh gaya makan, higenitas, pencegahan, pendidikan pengobatan dan kerja kelompok tabib, perawat dan pasien yang perlu menyembuhkan kesehatannya.

Referensi

Daftar pustaka
Ācārya, Yādava Trivikrama (ed.) Maharṣiṇā Punarvasunopadiṣṭā, tacchiṣyeṇĀgniveśena praṇītā, CarakaDṛḍhabalābhyāṃ pratisaṃskṛtā Carakasaṃhitā, śrīCakrapāṇidattaviracitayā Āyurvedadīpikāvyākhyayā saṃvalitā Nirnaya Sagara Press, 1941.  The best current edition of the Sanskrit text.  Often reprinted.  Online machine-readable transcription available at SARIT.info

 
 Menon, I A and H F Haberman, Dermatological writings of ancient India Medical History. 1969 October; 13(4): 387–392. seen at The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London  June 1, 2006
 Muniyal Ayurveda, Manipal, Sacitra Caraka Samhita - Volume 1, published by Muniyal Institute of Ayurveda Medical Sciences, Manipal. 2005 
 Meulenbeld, G. J. A History of Indian Medical Literature (Groningen, 1999–2002), vol. IA, pp. 7–180, gives a detailed survey of the contents of the Carakasaṃhitā and a comprehensive discussion of all historical matters related to the text, its commentators, and its later history in the Islamic world and in Tibet. 

 Sharma, P. V. Caraka-Saṃhitā: Agniveśa's Treatise Refined and annotated by Caraka and Redacted by Dṛḍhabala (text with English translation) Chaukhambha Prakashan, 1981–1994.  The best modern English translation of the whole text.  Volume 4 gives summaries of the commentary of Chakrapani Datta.

Sharma, R. K. & Bhagwan Dash, V. Agniveśa's Caraka Saṃhitā (Text with English Translation & Critical Exposition Based on Cakrapāṇi Datta's Āyurveda Dīpikā) Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office, 1976–2002.  Another good English translation of the whole text, with paraphrases of the commentary of Chakrapani Datta.
 Wujastyk, Dominik, The Roots of Ayurveda (Penguin Classics, 3rd edition, 2003), pp. 1–50 gives an introduction to the Carakasaṃhitā and a modern translation of selected passages.

Pranala luar
 The Charaka Samhita Full English translation by Gulabkunverba , 1949 (includes glossary)
 Charak Samhita New Edition Charak Samhita Research, Training and Skill Development Centre, India 
Charak Samhita New Edition , 
English translation of Charaka Samhita, Hathi Trust Archives, 5 Volumes
Charaka Samhita - a scientific synopsis archived version Ray and Gupta, National Institute of Sciences, India
Charak Samhita Original Sanskrit Text with commnetary   
Carakasaṃhitā (Sanskrit, IAST-Translit), SARIT Initiative, The British Association for South Asian Studies and The British Academy
Philosophy and Medicine in Early Classical India III, Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna

  A critical edition and English translation of the oldest commentary on Charaka Samhita.

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