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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…

In the Jain canon the Prāṇāvāya is one of the fourteen Pūrvas of the twelfth aṅga, the scripture that sets out the eight-limbed Ayurveda; Ugrāditya says he composed the Kalyāṇakāraka in…

Prana vata is said to dwell in the mouth and, in health, to carry all food and drink into the stomach.

Prana vata dwells in the mouth and carries all food and drink into the stomach; when aggravated it causes breathlessness, cough, hiccup and similar diseases with intense, distressing…

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.

His guru was the great muni Shrinandi, honoured by King Vishnuraja; by his command Ugradityacharya condensed the work from the great Pranavaya canon in Ardhamagadhi and composed it in…

On the author, the editor cites the closing verse of the work (chapter 25, verse 54), which says that Ugrāditya, by the grace of his gurus, composed the work in Sanskrit by condensing the…

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.

The author names his supreme guru, the great muni Shrinandi, master of the whole canon, at whose feet King Vishnuraja bowed, and says that by his command he composed this work, drawn from…

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 author says the book was composed on Ramagiri mountain, arose from the teachings of Shrinandi acharya and contains the subject matter of the Pranavaya canon taught by the omniscient, so…