Patañjali
Revision of Caraka's treatise (lost)
Traditional attribution
Revision of Caraka's treatise (lost)
चरकप्रतिसंस्कृत (Carakapratisaṃskṛta)
A medical work that tradition considers lost or absorbed into the Carakasaṃhitā as it survives. It underlies the third face of the "threefold Patañjali", the one who purifies the body with medicine. No independent text survives.
No edition of this work is currently on sale in a store we have been able to verify.
Authorship note
The commentator Cakrapāṇidatta (11th c.) and later texts ascribe to Patañjali a revision of Caraka's medical treatise. Meulenbeld (1999) shows that no Sanskrit source earlier than the tenth century links the physician with the grammarian; P. V. Sharma proposed that the medical Patañjalis were one or more authors distinct from the other two.
Editions and translations
Editions in your language first, without hiding the others. Each with its cover and its store.
No editions recorded yet.
Other works by Patañjali
- Yoga Sūtras (The Aphorisms of Yoga) · 325
- Samādhipāda (Chapter on Concentration)
- Sādhanapāda (Chapter on Means)
- Vibhūtipāda (Chapter on Powers)
- Kaivalyapāda (Chapter on Isolation)
- Yogabhāṣya (Commentary on the Yoga) · 325
- Mahābhāṣya (The Great Commentary) · 150
- Pātañjalatantra (medical treatise)
- Nidānasūtra (aphorisms on Vedic metre)
- Paramārthasāra (The Essence of Supreme Truth)
Sources
- Meulenbeld, G. Jan. A History of Indian Medical Literature, vol. IA. Groninga: Egbert Forsten, 1999 (sobre los Patañjali médicos y la estrofa de Bhoja).
Affiliate link: if you buy through it, the library may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. When an edition's real cover is not available, we show an illustrative library cover.