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For the literary research work Caraka Samhita and its commentary Ayurveda Deepika by Cakrapaani are taken into account. It will be interpreted with the help of Sanskrit linguistics. Sorting out relevant references from the treatise as well as commentary will be doing with first priority. The textual references will be contextually interpreted. The commentary part will be taken into account and will try to understand the intention of commentator in each context by thoroughly analyzing the clinical edge of the context and the language used. Then the clinical significance of those references will be highlighted. As the literary research is intended to find out the environmental health aspects explained in Caraka Samhita, each reference found out by the researcher in this aspect will be critically evaluated with relevant cross references from other Ayurvedic treatises of different era, especially from Susruta Samhita, Ashtaamga hrdaya as well as Ashtaamga samgraha. At the same time cross references from Indian classical literatures like Vedas, Upanishads, kaavyaas etc. may also be taken into account at times if the researcher is convinced with its relevance in this study. During this part of research, the findings will be recorded both in Sanskrit as well as English.

The available data and evidences will be collected and observed thoroughly regarding the past incidences of natural calamities, avalanche and environmental pollutions etc. in various parts of the world in different periods. The effects of such destructions on health of individual as well as society will also be thoroughly studied. The natural adaptation of different living beings during such calamities will also be studied. The extinction of species, if happened as a part of such natural disaster will also be taken for observation. Emergence of new species or mutations in existing species will also take under the purview of this study.

Editions

Agnivesa,   Chaukhamba,   2014

One Author

Prof. C R Agnives,   Harisree Hospital, Mannuthy, Kerala,   2012

Editions

Vagbhata,   Chaukhamba Orientalia,   2010

One Author

T Sreekumar,   Harisree Hospital, Mannuthy, Kerala,   2018

Translation

Vagbhata,   Kunnath Mana Ayurveda Books,   2009