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It seems that in the later period the Jainācāryas have shown some interest in the medical science for the cure of various types of disease, as it is evidenced by some references to them and their cure as found in some canonical works. It is stated that the Jaina monks suffering from sickness should procure the service of a Physician.
The evicences of the Jaina texts regarding the development of Ayurveda are fully corroborated by the Buddnists and Hindus works which furnish a good deal of information about the study and practice of this important science in its different branches.
The Jaina texts refer to various kinds of disease, such as, boils (gandi), leprosy (Kuttha of eighteen types)*, Consumption (rāyamsi), epilipsy (avamariya), blindness (Kaniya).
Stiffness (jeimiya), lameness (Kumiya), hump, back (khujjiya). (udarı), dumbness. (müya), swelling (Sumiya), over-appetite (gilāni) trembling (vevai), disability (pidhasappi). elephantiasis (pilivaya), diabetes (modhumeea), ring worm (Dladdu), billious fever (pittajvara)?, blood dysentery piles (amīsiyo)' or arisalo cheumatic (vātaka) bilious (pittika) and phleg
1. Nišitha cūrni and other later works refer to the medical treatment of
the monks. 2. C, F. Milindapariha, p. 272.
See Ayoghara Jataka, No. 510 IV., pp. 496 ff; Dighanikaya I, p. 12; 1; p. 9; Majjhimanikāya I., pp. 265 ff. See Mahaniddesa, p. 120. Milindapanha, p. 40, for the knowledge of the process of conceplion,
gradual development of the foetus in the womb. 3. Susruta Samhitā, Sūtrasthāna 1V. 4.4 8. (learing from different experts)
Caraka Samhitā. Vimānasthāna 8-4 (practical training. in medicine),
Susruta, Sutrasthāna. Ch. 9 (training in Surgery'; Sārırosthāna 5.49. 4. Refer to Suśrutasamhitā, Nidānasthāna 5.4-5, p. 342, Carakasamhitā,
ch. 7. pp. 2069-73 for eighteen kinds of Kustha. 5. Ācāranga Sūtra, 6-1.173 6. Bhagavatı Sūtra 7–6.288 7. Ibid., 9.33. 386; 15. 1. 557 8. Ibid., 15, 1. 572. 9. Bhagavatı 18, 1. 647 10. Cf. Vivāga Suya 1; p. 7
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