Bhela Samhita tradition

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The Bhela Samhita tradition is an early school of classical Indian Ayurvedic medicine, closely associated with the Charaka lineage and known through fragmentary texts and citations in later medical literature.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Ayurvedic medical tradition
classical Indian medical school
historical medical tradition
associatedWith Bhela NERFINISHED
Charaka Samhita NERFINISHED
Charaka tradition
citedBy later Ayurvedic authors
citedIn medieval Indian medical literature
countryOfOrigin India
culturalContext Brahmanical scholastic culture
doctrineType systematic medical doctrine
field Ayurveda NERFINISHED
Indian medicine
focusesOn diagnosis in Ayurveda
pathology in Ayurveda
regimen and dietetics
theory of doṣa (humors)
therapeutics in Ayurveda
genre medical compendium
historicalSignificance evidence for diversity of early Ayurvedic schools
source for reconstructing early Atreya-lineage teachings
influenced later Ayurvedic commentators
subsequent medical compilations in Sanskrit
influencedBy Atreya school of medicine NERFINISHED
knownFrom citations in later medical texts
fragmentary manuscripts
language Sanskrit
partOf classical Ayurvedic literature
preservationStatus fragmentary
region South Asia
relatedWork Bhela Samhita NERFINISHED
script written in various regional Indic scripts in surviving manuscripts
sharesLineageWith Charaka school NERFINISHED
textualForm samhita
timePeriod early classical Ayurveda
transmissionMode oral and written transmission
transmissionType manuscript tradition
usesConcept agni (digestive fire)
dhātu (body constituents)
srotas (channels)
tridoṣa theory

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Charaka (tradition preserved) relatedTo Bhela Samhita tradition