Note On Caraka Samhita And Buddhism

Author(s): Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Johannes Bronkhorst

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120 Bronkhorst: A note on the Caraka Samhita and Buddhism 121 BST CS IBK Buddhist Sanskrit Texts, Darbhanga Caraka Samhita Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu, Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, Tokyo Journal Asiatique, Paris Melanges chinois et bouddhiques, Bruxelles Salistambasutra, ed. N. Aiyaswami Sastri, Madras 1950 (ALS JA MCB Sal(S) 76) Notes: 1 . La Vallee Poussin, Louis de (1937): "Le bouddhisme et le yoga de Patan jali." MCB 5 (1936-37), 223-242. Lindtner, Christian (1997): "Buddhism as saddhatuvada." ALB 61, 45-68. Meulenbeld, G. Jan (1999): A History of Indian Medical Literature. Vols. I A (Text) and I B (Annotation). Groningen: Egbert Forsten. (Gronin gen Oriental Studies vols. XV/ I A and I B.) Meulenbeld, G. Jan (2000): A History of Indian Medical Literature. Vols. II A (Text) and II B (Annotation). Groningen: Egbert Forsten. (Groningen Oriental Studies vols. XV/ II A and II B.) Ramakrishna Rao, K.B. (1962): "The Samkhya philosophy in the Caraka samhita." ALB 26(3-4), 193-205. Rospatt, Alexander von (1995): The Buddhist Doctrine of Momentariness. A survey of the origins and early phase of this doctrine up to Vasubandhu. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. (ANISt 47.) Rosu, Arion (1978): Les conceptions psychologiques dans les textes medicaux indiens. Paris: Ed. de Boccard. (Publications de l'Institut de Civilisation Indienne, Fasc. 43.) Sharma, Priyavrat (1981): Caraka-Samhita. Agnivesa's treatise refined and annotated by Caraka and redacted by Drdhabala. Text with English translation. Vol. I. Varanasi - Delhi: Chaukhambha Orientalia. (Jaikri shnadas Ayurveda Series, 36.) Srivastavya, Santanarayana (1983): Carakasamhitaki darsanika prstha bhumi (The Philosophical Background of Charaka-Samhita). Ilaha bada: Piyasa Prakasana. Zysk, Kenneth G. (1991): Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India. Medicine in the Buddhist monastery. Oxford University Press. Zysk, Kenneth G. (1999): "Mythology and the Brahmanization of Indian medicine: transforming heterodoxy into orthodoxy." Categorisation and Interpretation: Indological and comparative studies from an international Indological meeting at the Department of Comparative Philology, Goteborg University. A volume dedicated to the memory of Gosta Liebert. Ed. Folke Josephson. Goteborg: Meijerbergs institut for svensk etymologisk forskning, Goteborgs universitet. (Meijerbergs arkiv for svensk ordforskning, 24.) Pp. 125-145. 1 This should be the reading. The printed version has: "a number of points that he believes were borrowed from Buddhism by the Caraka Samhita". 2 The passage does not seem to have attracted much attention in the secondary literature. An exception is Srivastavya, 1983: 119 f. 3 Cp. Sharma, 1981: 112-113. 4 CS, Sarira 4.6: garbhas tu khaly antariksavayvagnitoyabhumivikaras cetanadhisthanabhutah/ evam anaya yuktya pancamahabhutavikarasamudayatmako garbhas cetanadhisthanabhutah/ sa hy asya sastho dhatur uktah/. 5 Cp. Lindtner, 1997. Rosu, 1978: 160 emphasises the difference between cetana and vijnana. 6 BBu 4 p. 561; BST 10 p. 275 1. 20-21. The passage occurs Sal(s) p. 8 1. 5. Compare this passage with CS, Sutra 11.32: saddhatusamudayad garbhajanma. ? BBu 1 p. 220 f.; BST 11 p. 120 f. 8 BBu 1 p. 244; BST 11 p. 131. 9 CS, Satra 1.57-58: vayuh pittam kaphas coktah sariro dosasamgrahah/ manasah punar uddisto rajas ca tama eva call prasamyaty ausadhaih purvo daivayuktivyapasrayaih/ manaso jnanavijnanadhairyasmotisamadhibhih// 10 I follow Cakrapanidatta's interpretation of these terms: jnana = adhyatmajnana, vijnana = sastrajnana. 11 Ramakrishna Rao, 1962. 12 Cs, Sarira 1.53: prabhavo na hy anaditvad vidyate paramatmanah/ puruso rasisamjnas tu mohecchadvesakarmajah// 13 Cp. e.g. Bronkhorst, 2000: 85 ff. Abbreviations: ALB ALS ANIST BBu The Brahmavidya, Adyar Library Bulletin, Madras - Adyar Library Series, Madras Alt- und Neu-Indische Studien, Hamburg Bibliotheca Buddhica, St. Petersburg (Leningrad)