Vagbhata
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Vāgbhaṭa (वाग्भट) was one of the most influential writers of Ayurveda. Several works are associated with his name as author, principally the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha (अष्टाङ्गसंग्रह) and the Ashtāngahridayasaṃhitā (अष्टाङ्गहृदयसंहिता). The best current research, however, argues in detail that these two works cannot be the product of a single author. Indeed, the whole question of the relationship of these two works, and their authorship, is very difficult and still far from solution.[1]: 645 Both works make frequent reference to the earlier classical works, the Charaka Samhita and the Sushruta Samhita.[1]: 391–593 Vāgbhaṭa is said, in the closing verses of the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha to have been the son of Simhagupta and pupil of Avalokita. His works mention worship of cattle and Brahmanas and various Hindu gods and goddesses, he also begins with a note on how Ayurveda evolved from Brahma and Sarasvati. His work contains syncretic elements.
A frequently quoted erroneous suggestion is that Vāgbhaṭa was an ethnic Kashmiri,[2] based on a mistaken reading of the following note by the German Indologist Claus Vogel: Judging by the fact that he expressly defines Andhra and Dravida as the names of two southern kingdoms and repeatedly mentions Kashmirian terms for particular plants, he is likely to have been a Northern Indian Subcontinental man and a native of Kashmira.[3] Vogel is speaking here not of Vāgbhaṭa, but of the commentator Indu.
Vāgbhaṭa was a disciple of Charaka. Both of his books were originally written in Sanskrit with 7000 sutras.
Sushruta, "Father of Surgery" and "Father of Plastic Surgery", Charaka, a medical genius, and Vāgbhaṭa are considered to be "The Trinity" of Ayurvedic knowledge, with Vāgbhaṭa coming after the other two.[4] According to some scholars, Vāgbhaṭa lived in Sindhu around the sixth century CE. Not much is known about him personally, except that he was most likely to have been a Vedic doctor, as he mentions Hindu deities in his writings, and his children, grandchildren, and disciples were all Vedic Hindus. It is also believed that he was taught Ayurvedic medicine by his father and a Veda monk named Avalokita.