Ayurveda as an Art

In the palmy and progressive days of Ayurveda, the fathers of Ayurvedic Medicine were the foremost exponents and all-round practitioners of their times, teaching and practicing Ashtanga Chikitsa, `The eight divisioned therapy, comprehending medical, surgical and other branches included in the term Ashtanga;

History has recorded that medical students from all parts of the world come for post - graduate study to the medical faculty of some famous university in India, as the one at Taxilla or Nalanda. The field of activity of our physicians any professors of those days was not confined to India but extended from Greece, Persia and Arabia in the west to china, Java and other countries of Greater India in the East. Indian Professors and Practitioners of Ayurveda were then warmly welcomed by Royal patrons in other countries. They practiced under Royal Patronage and exchanged thoughts freely with practitioners of those countries. The treasures of Ayurveda were translated into the language of other countries - Persian, Arabic, Chinese etc.,