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Ayurveda
: Ancient Heritage in the Age of Globalisation
on the
Pancha-Mahabhuta
and
Tridosha
as depicted in the
Buddhist
Tripitakas
(1978). Zysk’s monograph (1991) is,
however, an outstanding work on the relationship
between Buddhism and rise of the classical Indian
medicine. Another paper jointly prepared by Mitra and Gupta
(1967) on military medicine in ancient India covers a
useful topic in historiography. Mitra’s small monograph
(66 pages) on history of medicine from Pre-Mauryan to
Kushana period (1974) is work of average standard.
Strangely enough, it does not discuss how this particular
phase of history stands as a variable in growth of history
of medicine in India - which is so relevant a topic for this
chronology. Another chronological presentation of the
history of medicine is related to the Gupta period.
Authored by Sharma (1972) this reflects a standard
analysis of the literature of the Gupta age. One is
particularly impressed by Sharma’s painstaking
endeavour to discover references to as many as 429
medicinal plant in different
Puranas
and in the works by
Kalidasa. As regards studies on the situation of Ayurveda in
the world setting, its relationship with Greece has been
studied elaborately as noted above. Reference may be
made to the paper by Filliozat (ref. 1981) on Ayurveda
and foreign contacts. Kutumbiah, author of the
Ancient
