Rājamārtaṇḍa (also called Yogasārasaṅgraha and Nanāvidhayogasārasaṅgraha) is a Sanskrit treatise on Āyurveda believed to have been composed by Bhojarāja (d.1055) of the Rajput Paramāra dynasty, rulers of the Malwa region in central/western India. This is primarily a work describing mono-herbal Ayurvedic medicinal preparations.[1] The work is divided into 34 chapters. The first chapter deals with diseases of the head and the last chapter is concerned with animal diseases.[2] Rājamārtaṇḍa is one of the earliest Ayurveda texts to mention a specific prescription as a contraceptive.[3]
Further reading
edit- For the full text of Rājamārtaṇḍa (no commentary, no translation): Rajamartanda (1924). Mharaaja Bhoja. Bombay (Mumbai): Vaidya Jadavji Tricumji Acharya. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
- For an English translation of Rājamārtaṇḍa: K. Nishteswar and R. Vidyanath (2008). RaJamartanda (Nanavidhayogasangraha: Text with English Translation). Varanasi, India: Chaukhamba Orientalia. ISBN 978-8176370615.
References
edit- ^ Sreelekshmi I, Vivek P, Vidhya Unnikrishnan (2020). "Rajamartanda - A Literary Treasure on Monoherbal Therapies" (PDF). International Journal of Ayurvedic and Herbal Medicine. 10 (6): 3874–3885. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ M. S. Krishnamurthy (27 June 2019). "Rajamartanda by Bhojaraj - Book Review". www.easyayurveda.com. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
- ^ Narendra Bhatt and Manasi Deshpande (June 2021). "A Critical Review and Scientific Prospective on Contraceptive Therapeutics from Ayurveda and Allied Ancient Knowledge". Frontiers in Pharmacology. 12. doi:10.3389/fphar.2021.629591. PMC 8210421. PMID 34149405.