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== [[Zirkoff, Boris]] == | |||
'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Charaka}}'''. “Wanderer.” Ancient Muni and physician, born in Panchanada, Kashmir. Acc. to Chinese trans, of the Buddhist ''Tripitaka'', he was the official physician of Indo-Scythian King Kanishka in the first or second century A. D. Acc. to legend, the {{Page aside|372}}Serpent-King Sesha, who was the recipient of the ''Ayur-veda'', when visiting the earth and finding it full of sickness, became moved with pity and determined to become incarnated as the son of a Muni for alleviating disease. He was called Charaka because he visited earth as a kind of spy or ''chara''. Wrote a Compendium, the ''Charaka-samhitâ'' (See App. p. 364), representing Âtreya’s system of medicine, as handed down by his pupil Agnivesa. | |||
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|author = Boris de Zirkoff | |||
|title = H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings | |||
|detail = vol. 5, pp. 371-372 | |||
|link = Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#371 | |||
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