A IM S AND OBJECJ

AIMS AND OBJECT

Basically Ayurveda is divided i nt o eight

branches.

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Medicine, the s ys t em ic course of Ayurvedic s tud y is divided into

various branches as in modern medicine. The scattered lite ra tu re

on different t o p i cs is re-established. Thus the changed and

advanced method of te aching of Ayurvedia on one h and and keen |

interest of s c i e n t i s t s all over world, onthe ot he r hand has

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Embryalogy) be made practically useful on the basis of material

available in Ayurvedic classics" ? To answer t hi s q ue s t i o n it is I

necessary to s tud y its entirety correct with a ug m e n t a t i o n,
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 To know the subject Garbhavkranti, s tu d y of

classics as a wh ol e is indispensible b e c a us e the subject c on ce rne d

i s not r e l a t e d to only anotomical development but also to

psychophysical development. In modern embryalogy the subject is

well edited while in A y u rve d ic l it e r a tu r e it is describ ed in v ariou s

branches .

With lim ited e q ui p me nt s an d facilities, I have

tried to e x p l a i n some of the c h a p t e r s of G a r b h a v k ra n ti in the l i g h t

o f modern m e d i c a l science.

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