01053nam a22001457a 4500003000200000005001700002020001800019082001700037100002100054245002200075260004200097300001100139520071900150650003800869020261006133140.0  a9789393330840  a615.537 VAL   aValiathan, M.S.   aLegacy of caraka   aHyderabed bUniversities Press c2025  a634p.   aCaraka, the master physician, is believed to have lived in the first century A.D. The Samhita composed by him forms the bedrock of ayurvedic practice today. His contribution to India's cultural inheritance was profound. Caraka Samhita was, in fact, a revision of an older text Agnivesa Tantra, which was written several centuries before Caraka's time. This book retells the Samhita in a new format. Instead of adhering to the sequence of the Sthanas in the original, the author has retold the Samhita through thematically structured chapters, in contemporary idiom. The retelling has involved some degree of restructuring and condensation but has ensured that whatever is stated can be traced back to the original.  aCaraka and his Legacy aAyurveda