द्रव्यगुण विज्ञान- Dravyaguna Vijnana (Part- 2)

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They are concentrating all their intellect and industry to compose the encyclopedic treatise-form literature into a subject-wise simplified text-book to suit the present mode of education.

It needs a great industry and perseverance to collect all the related materials scattered in various original books, their commentaries and compendiums, epitomes and abstract, synopses and summaries and digests of abridged compilation written during the last two thousand years.

Ayurveda, though not very progressive during the dependent period of India, had produced scholars here and there who have kept up the torch of Ayurveda knowledge burning and bright.

To this collection, one has often to add, useful knowledge that modern science has gained in the common and related branches of the medical science. Thus it becomes not only a laborious task but needs direct acquaintance with all these literatures as the system of introducing a detailed bibliography has not still come in vogue in Ayurvedic literature.

After the huge collection of varied materials, it needs a mathematical of Sankhya instinct to find the lowest common measure and classify them in definite categories so that they may be fully informative, instructive and easy to grasp.

Pandit Priya Vrata Sharma luckily possesses both the above qualifications and hence his books very useful and helpful to the teacher as well as to the taught.

There is passionate controversies going on regarding the mode, method, manner and material of Ayurvedic education since long. Until the fundamental defect or deficiency of supplying the scholarly teachers and standard textbooks in these educational institutions is removed, one cannot expect to cut this Gordian knot of Ayurvedic education.

Man is the only clever Living being that knows how to adapt to the changing environment of time and space. That genius of him has given to him the supreme position in the world and enabled him to make progress and utilize all the new achievement of science in i.e. the interest of himself and humanity.

During the oral era of Education (Vedic period), the man compiled sutra-styled encyclopedic treatises mostly in simple, rhythmic poetry. Oral transmission was the only method for education at that period and this style being convenient to memorize was accepted.

During the manuscript era, the man tried to dilate or abridge, comment or criticize, expound or extract, as writing has been of some help to spread the knowledge and relieve the extra-ordinary burden of memorizing the totality of knowledge.

With the advent of printing process, the man gets a powerful means of expression of his thoughts, ideas and experiences to his full satisfaction. He becomes relieved of memorizing strain, and science has so enabled him today that he can print not only the word but record its sound rhythm, style and even passion with which it is uttered.

With these progressive achievements in the sphere of verbal knowledge on one side and in the change of concept of generalization and all-round distribution of medical knowledge on the other side, it is but natural that there will arise a need for simplifying modification in the writing of medical literature so, that people of various grades of intelligence may have full benefit of this knowledge.

A glance in the history of Ayurveda confirms this process of modulation of compilation of medical knowledge to suit the existing circumstances. Medical knowledge began with scattered references in the Vedas. Then there was compiled Ayurvedic Samhita as a comprehensive treatise on the science of life.

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