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The introduction says no definite time can be given for the origin of Ayurveda, the science of life, because the need for it begins wherever living beings have life; since it is essential…

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)…

The science is also called Ayurveda: 'veda', from the root vid meaning knowledge, reflection and gain, here means what tells the true nature of things, and joined with 'āyus' it names the…

The translation says that the wise muni who studies this science of health and grasps its secret secures health, the cause of the bliss of liberation, while one who does not study it, his…

Acknowledgements: the first revision of the text was made by Āyurvedācārya Pt. Anantarājendra Śāstrī, a noted Mumbai physician and chief physician of the Di. Jain Auṣadhālaya, Bhuleshwar,…

The editor says the Puṣpāyurveda survives in a Kannada (Karnāṭaka) script of the third century BCE that is very hard to read, a unique subject for historians, and asks readers to consider…

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…

'Veda', from the root vid (knowledge, reflection, gain), means what reveals the true nature of things, and joined with 'āyus' it names the science of life. Its purpose is to protect the…

The editor states that he is not a physician and has made no systematic study of Ayurveda, so countless errors may remain in the editing and translation; but two experienced physician…

Shrinandi Acharya; at Ramagiri in Kalinga; Pujyapada (shalakya), Patrakesari (surgery), Siddhasena (toxicology and graha pacification), Dasharatha (internal medicine), Meghanada…

Because the muni who studies it secures health, the cause of the bliss of liberation, while one who does not, afflicted by diseases born of his own doshas, is bound by karma through the…

One born in a kṣatriya, brāhmaṇa or vaiśya family who is intelligent, of blameless conduct, skilled and humble is said to be entitled to study this science; he should approach the teacher…

The teaching revealed by the divine voice was grasped directly by the gaṇadharas and then by sages holding the four pure kinds of knowledge; it came down from Ṛṣabha through all the…

The opening verse honours Ṛṣabhanātha (Vṛṣabha), the first Tīrthaṅkara, whose footstool is worshipped by the gem-light of the crowns of the lords of gods and men, who conquered the karmic…

A learned monk who knows the science of health and lives by it keeps healthy and gains the path to the bliss of the liberated; one who does not falls ill from his doshas and binds karma…

The introduction says that the treatment portion of the Kalyāṇakāraka resembles Caraka to a large extent, apart from the parts dealing with honey, wine and meat.

The publisher's note says that the speech of the Vītarāga Lord contains Ayurveda for the sake of religious practice, but that because of the faults of the present age many of those…

The introduction says wine (madya), like meat and honey, is used in no medicinal formula of the Kalyāṇakāraka, because it is born of violence and its renunciation is needed to uphold…

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 introduction is dated 1-2-1940 and signed by Gangādhar Gopāl Guṇe (Vaidyapañcānana, Vaidyacūḍāmaṇi), former president of the Nikhil Bhāratīya Āyurveda Mahāmaṇḍala and Vidyāpīṭha, editor…

The publisher's note opens with the saying 'the body is indeed the first means of dharma' and says that a healthy body is necessary for religious practice, and that only through a healthy…

The introduction says Ayurveda has used medicines on a very large scale, surely and without strain, drawing them from animal parts, plants, minerals and substances such as milk; in using…

The introduction says every medical system rests on an account of how the body works in health and how it is disordered in disease, and that in Ayurveda the body is made of the three…

The Jain doctrine that a thing has many aspects and can be described only relatively; the hitahita chapter uses it to argue that no substance is wholesome or unwholesome in every respect.