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V. — Notes on Char aha Sanhitd. — By Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar. 



(Abstract.) 



Charaka Sanhitd has not yet been examined by scholars either 

 of Europe or America. The account of Charaka in Bcehtlinck and 

 Roth's Dictionary publishing at St. Petersberg is taken from the 

 Sabdakalpadruma, in wh ch we have a fabulous account of the 

 author, taken from Bhaba Prakasa, a very modern work on Medicine. 



It appears, there is a MS. in Wilson's Collection, about which 

 Dr. Roth writes to Mr. Hcernle, Professor, Jayanarayan College, 

 Benares, as I learn from a letter from the former to Babu Rajendra 

 Lala Mitra, who did me the honor of referring to me on the subject, 

 and very kindly sent me Mr. H.'s letter to him. 



According to Dr. Roth, there are 1 1 parts or sections in the 

 Charaka of Wilson's Collection, which are called Sthdnas. 



Now in the MSS. in my possession, one of which is a careful 

 transcript from a very old and reliable MS. in possession of one of 

 the Kavirajas of Berhampore, made (purposely for myself) under 

 the order of the late Raja Prasanna Narayana Deva Bahadur, as 

 well as in other MSS. in possession of other Kavirajas, which I 

 have seen, there are eight parts or sections or Sthdnas. Dr. Wise, 

 the only European writer who gives any correct account of Chara- 

 ka, mentions only eight parts or Sthdnas, the names of which 

 exactly correspond with those in our MSS. Besides, the addi- 

 tional parts mentioned by Dr. Roth are but adhydyas of one or 

 other of the eight Sthanas. 



All our MSS. thus agreeing, I conclude, the original Charaka 

 Sanhita consists of eight Sthanas or Sections. The following list 

 shows the names of these sections, and the number of the chapters 

 or adhyayas they severally contain : — 



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