Notes

CHAPTER 1

1. Vagbhata, Ashtanga Hridayam, Sutrasthana 1.6. “The dosha are material substances in the body always, they have their own definite quantity, quality, and functions. When they are normal they attend to different functions of the body and so maintain it. But they have the tendency to become abnormal undergoing increase or decrease in their quantity, one or more of their qualities and functions . . . because of this tendency to vitiation [disorder], they are called as doshas.”

2. Vagbhata, Ashtanga Hridayam, vol. 1, Sutrasthana 12.34–42.

3. Agnivesa, Charaka Samhita, vol. 1, Sutrasthana 30.8. Trans. Dr. Ram Karan Sharma and Vaidya Bhagwan Dash (Varanasi: Chowkhamba Krishnadas Academy).

4. AKA Charita Samhita, Sutrasthana 30.9.

CHAPTER 2

1. Vagbhata, Ashtanga Hridayam, vol. 1, Sutrasthana 8.49. Trans. Prof. K. R. Srikantha Murthy, 6th ed. (Varanasi: Chowkhamba Krishnadas Academy, 2009).

CHAPTER 7

1. Vagbhata, Ashtanga Hridayam, vol. 1, Sutrasthana 2.8–9. Trans. Prof. K. R. Srikantha Murthy, 6th ed. (Varanasi: Chowkhamba Krishnadas Academy, 2009).