VAIDYA KALPATARU: AN UNNOTICED SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPT OF ĀYURVEDIC TRADITION OF ODISHA

Abstract

This paper is deals with an unpublished palm leaf manuscripts of Ayurveda. Odisha is a land of great ayurvedic tradition and there are so many traditional treatment systems adopted by the vaidyas of Odisha. This text vaidya kalpataru (VK) is an unpublished text written in sanskrit language with odia translation. This mss is yet to editing and before that this paper deals about the information of special features and utility to apprise the modern scholars and ayurvedic doctors for the public benefits. This VK is probably 16^th century text written by vaidya Kapileswar Mishra conferred as vaidya śekhara and there are three mss available in two repositories of Odisha from which one mss contains 13 chapter as well as another two mss contains 19 chapter. Nidāna (pathology), cikitsā (treatment) and dravya guṇa and oushadhi (medicine) are described in this text. After Cikitsārṇava this is very famous text used by the Ayurvedic tradition which is not yet published or discussed by the scholars.