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type: Reference
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title: Charaka Saṃhitā
description: 'The foundational compendium of internal medicine (kāyacikitsā), redacted by Charaka from the Agniveśa Tantra, source of the definitions of āyus, svastha conduct, prajñāpāradha, sattvāvajaya, and the therapeutic architecture this bundle cites most.'
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- reference
- charaka-samhita
- kayacikitsa
timestamp: '2026-07-09'
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# Charaka Saṃhitā

The Charaka Saṃhitā (redacted around the early centuries CE from the older Agniveśa Tantra, with a later completion by Dṛḍhabala) is the principal classical text of Āyurvedic internal medicine. Its eight sections (sthānas) supply most of the doctrinal anchors in this bundle: the definition of life as the four-fold conjunction (Sūtrasthāna 1.42), rajas and tamas as the mental doṣas (Sūtrasthāna 1.57), the non-suppressible urges (Sūtrasthāna 7), the code of conduct (Sūtrasthāna 8), the three-fold therapy including sattvāvajaya (Sūtrasthāna 11), the twenty guṇas (Sūtrasthāna 25), the six rasas (Sūtrasthāna 26), ojas (Sūtrasthāna 30), the channel system (Vimānasthāna 5), constitution (Vimānasthāna 8), the mind and prajñāpāradha (Śārīrasthāna 1), and rasāyana (Cikitsāsthāna 1). This bundle cites it wherever the root formulation carries the point.
