Charak

Charak is a sage in Hindu mythology who is considered an incarnation of Shesh Nag the Snake God on which Vishnu sleeps. There was also a physician named Charak (1st - 2nd Century) who is famous for his treatise on medicine named 'Charak Samhita'. It is one of the main division of Ayurveda and is taught in Ayurveda medical colleges in India. Many Indian scholars believed both the same person and put his period around 1800 BC , some around 1000 BC, and some around 600 BC, on the basis of some Hindu mythological texts. They believe him to be the first doctor.

Wisdom & Quotes

From Charak Samhita

• Health is the root of all the four purushartha (pursuits of man) - Dharm, Arth, Kama, and Moksh.
• If you want success in your practice, wealth and fame, and heaven after your death , you must pray every day on rising and going to bed for the welfare of all beings, especially of cows and Brahmins, an you must strive with all your soul for the health of the sick. You must not betray your patients, even at the cost of your own life, ... You must not get drunk, or commit evil, or have evil companions. ... You must be pleasant of speech... and thoughtful, always striving to improve your knowledge.
• When you go to the home of a patient you should direct your words, mind, intellect and senses nowhere but to your patient and his treatment. ... Nothing that happens in the house of the sick man must be told outside, nor must the patient's condition be told to anyone who might do harm by that knowledge to the patient or to another.

Satavahana Hala

Nearby pages
Charak Pathar, Charaksanhita, Charan, Charan Singh, Charar-i-sharief Vidhan Sabha Constituency