Introduction and table of contents
प्रस्तावना एवं विषयानुक्रमणिका · प्रस्तावना व विषयानुक्रमणिका
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Topics in this session
Headings from the book in reading order. Open a topic for its summary and the knowledge it refers to.
- Title page: Kalyāṇakārakam by Śrī Ugrādityācāryaश्री उग्रादित्याचार्य कृत कल्याणकारकम् (राष्ट्रभाषानुवाद सहित)Otherp. 1
The title page names the work, Kalyāṇakārakam by Śrī Ugrādityācārya, with a translation in the national language (rāṣṭrabhāṣā). It names the editor and translator, Śrī Pt. Vardhamān…
The publisher's note opens with the maxim that the body is the first means of dharma and says that disease is subject to karma but is calmed by the pure medicines of this book. It says many…
Govindjī Rāvjī Dośī of Solapur, publisher of the first edition, writes that his late father greatly wished this book to appear soon for the benefit of the world of Ayurveda, and that it is…
The editor, Vardhamān Pārśvanāth Śāstrī, dedicates the work to Dharmavīr, Dānavīr, Jinavāṇībhūṣaṇ, Vidyābhūṣaṇ Seṭh Rāvjī Sakhārām Dośī, who devoted his life to spreading Jainism, serving…
The introduction begins a history of Ayurveda: the science of life has no fixed date of origin and grows with society from healing by priests to compiled saṁhitās, traced through the…
The closing section of the introduction says the Kalyāṇakāraka is finely composed and its many formulas are new and distinctive; it covers the cause, prodromes, pathogenesis, treatment and…
The editor, Vardhamān Pārśvanāth Śāstrī, explains under a series of sub-headings why and how he edited the work: the neglect of Jain medical literature, Seṭh Rāvjī Sakhārām Dośī's role, the…
The editor says he is neither a physician nor a systematic student of Ayurveda, so errors are possible, and credits two physician friends of Mumbai and Ahmednagar with the revision. He…
The editor recounts how Seṭh Rāvjī Sakhārām Dośī had the first copy made, encouraged the editing, helped found the Kalyāṇa press named after the work, gathered materials and funds, and…
The editor describes the four manuscripts used: a copy of the Mysore Government Library palm-leaf manuscript, a palm-leaf manuscript in Kannada script from Shravanabelagola, a Mumbai copy…
The editor laments that no Jain medical work had yet been published and that works by Samantabhadra and Pūjyapāda, though known and cited even by non-Jain physicians, cannot be found. He…
The editor says the Jain āgama is authoritative because it is taught by the Omniscient: the gaṇadharas divide the divine voice into the twelve aṅgas, the twelfth of which has fourteen…
The editor summarises the account at the start of the work: after a salutation to Ādinātha, Bharata and others in Ṛṣabhanātha's assembly ask how the people of the age of action, who suffer…
The editor reports the author's derivation (chapter 1, verse 18): vidyā is omniscience (kevalajñāna), which reveals the nature of the soul and all other things; the work arises from that…
The editor explains that the work is also called Āyurveda because it sets out the truth taught by the omniscient Tīrthaṅkara, through which all matters concerning a person's life (āyu)…
Quoting chapter 1, verse 21, the editor says that a person of the brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya or vaiśya class who is intelligent, of blameless conduct, skilful and humble, and who goes to the…
The editor says the author directs the teacher to learn the student's caste, family and qualities and examine him well, then give him vows before the Arhat and only then begin his…
Quoting chapter 1, verse 24, the editor says medicine is composed to benefit the world and has two purposes, protecting the health of the healthy and freeing the sick from disease, both of…
The editor reports the author's two kinds of health: ultimate (pāramārthika) health, the imperishable, supra-sensory bliss of the soul that comes from destroying the eight karmas, and…
The editor reports chapter 7's teaching that treatment destroys sin, increases dharma and brings happiness in this world and the next, and that no austerity is greater; so the physician…
The editor reports the author's description of the physician (chapter 7, verse 38): truthful, steady, forgiving, deft of hand, able to prepare medicines himself, experienced in major…
The editor reports chapter 7's teaching that the patient should trust the physician as he trusts his own mother, father, son, friend and wife, hide nothing from him and practise no deceit,…
The editor notes that Ugrāditya quotes the medical views of earlier Jain ācāryas, among them Śrutakīrti, Kumārasena, Vīrasena, Pūjyapāda, Pātrasvāmī, Siddhasena, Daśarathaguru, Meghanātha,…
The editor argues that Pūjyapāda, author of the Sarvārthasiddhi and the Jainendra grammar, also wrote medical works: an inscription credits him with a vaidyaśāstra, the Basavarājīya, a work…
The editor says Samantabhadra, earlier than Pūjyapāda, wrote a Siddhānta Rasāyana Kalpa of 18,000 verses, now largely eaten by insects, using Jain technical terms and codes:…
The editor says Jain medicine has come down from the Lord's divine voice through the gaṇadharas and their disciples, and that medical authors are known even before Samantabhadra: sages of…
The editor says the Jain sages, so that no creature, not even a one-sensed being, should suffer in making medicines, composed a Puṣpāyurveda giving rasāyana preparations from pollen-free…
The editor says that medical authors continued after Pūjyapāda and composed many Ayurvedic works, as many books record, and introduces some of them under the sub-headings that follow.
The editor says Gummaṭadeva Muni composed a medical work called Merutantra, and at the end of each of its chapters remembers Śrī Pūjyapāda Svāmī with great respect.
The editor says Siddha Nāgārjuna, Pūjyapāda's sister's son, wrote the Nāgārjuna Kalpa, the Nāgārjuna Kakṣapuṭa and other works, and tells the story of his gold-making gem-pill, the…
The editor lists medical works written in Kannada, from Kīrtivarma's Govaidya to Sāḷva's Rasaratnākara and Vaidyasāṅgatya, and says Somanātha's Kannada translation of Pūjyapāda's…
The editor dates the author: Ugrāditya cites the medical works of Pūjyapāda, Samantabhadra and other ācāryas presumed to be earlier than the sixth century, and the closing prose sentence…
The editor says Ugrāditya wrote nothing about himself, but names his guru Śrīnandi and the place of composition, the Jina temple on the Rāmagiri hill in Veṅgi in the Trikaliṅga country,…
The editor thanks the two physician friends who revised the text, Pt. Anantarājendra Śāstrī of Mumbai and Pt. Bindumādhav Śāstrī of Ahmednagar, Pt. Gaṅgādhar Gopāl Guṇe Śāstrī for writing…