Charaka Samhita. Part I, Chapter 21 / Translation from Sanskrit, Introductory Article and Commentaries by D. Burba
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The publication presents the first Ukrainian translation of the 21st chapter of the first part of the fundamental Sanskrit treatise on Ayurveda (traditional Indian medicine) Charaka Samhita. (For previous chapters, see four previous issues of the journal The World of the Orient, issues 2–4 for 2024, and issues for 2017). The text as it exists today is thought to have arisen in the 1st century CE. The translation is of great importance for acquaintance of the Ukrainian readers with medical conceptions and life of Ancient India.
The chapter begins with a list of eight types of people who due to obvious peculiarity in their appearance may be subject of negative judgment. They are too tall, too short, too hairy, hairless, too black, too white, too corpulent and too emaciated. Too corpulent is a person who has so much fat that different parts of the body become pendulous and his strength is disproportional with his weight; excessively emaciated persons have buttocks, abdomen and neck emaciated, there is vascular network in their skin; the joints are prominently seen and the man appears to have bone and skin only.
The author of Charaka Samgita notes that in general, being thin is better than being fat, because a fat suffers more from diseases. But in both cases, weight correction is required; it consists in elimination (if possible) of the cause of the anomaly and specific treatment, including an appropriate diet and lifestyle changes. It is stated that fatness and thinness are particularly dependent on food and sleep, and that healthy sleep is essential for maintenance of the body like proper diet. The factors that provoke insomnia or pathological drowsiness are listed and recommendations are given to counteract them. The chapter ends with a list of its contents.
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antiquity; Ayurveda; Charaka; India; samhita; Sanskrit; therapy; translation
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