Vagbhata

The Indian doctor Vagbhata ( वाग्भट, Vagbhata, probably lived around 600 AD ) and is considered the author of the Ashtanga Hridaya writings ( "nuclear medicine " ) and the Ashtanga Sangraha ( " Summary of the medicine" ). The Ashtanga Hridaya is written in verse form, Ashtanga Sangraha partially. In verse and partly in prose It has long been assumed that it was with the authors of these two works by different persons are ( Vagbhata I and II Vagbhata ); which work was the older, remained unclear. From modern authors such as Dominik Wujastyk is now believed that it is with the authors of both works are one and the same person, on substance, correspond and also sections are identical in wording. It remains unclear here whether the author Vagbhata first wrote in verse and later declared with prose and supplemented, or whether an earlier prose work was brought to a later date in the meter.

His father's name was Simhagupta, his grandfather had the same name Vagbhata. He learned medicine from his father and from a teacher with the Buddhist name Avalokita. Whether Vagbhata himself was Buddhist, remains unexplained. From the contents of Ashtanga Hridaya and Ashtanga Sangraha can be concluded that it was the author is a qualified and practicing physicians. According Wujastik make the works Vagbhatas represents the most comprehensive synthesis of Indian medicine that has ever been created. He compares the importance Vagbhatas for medical tradition in India with the meaning Ibn Sina for medical tradition in the Islamic world. Vagbhata refers to the works of his predecessors Sushruta and Charaka, he unified and ordered in his works a mass of contradictory and medical data, and thus created the textbook Indian medicine par excellence. Vagbhatas work is delivered in a larger number of manuscripts and also has more commentators found Sushruta and Charaka than its predecessors. His two works were translated into Tibetan in the 8th century, Arabic and Persian, and thus also outside India influenced the medical tradition.

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