काश्यप संहिता (वृद्ध जीवकीय तन्त्र व विद्योतिनी हिन्दी टीका सहित)

१२६ | काश्यपसंहिता वा वृद्धजीवकीयं तन्त्रम्

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नस्तदुत्तरवयोन्तेवासिनो दार्शनिका एव तत्र प्रथमतॊ भैषज्यविज्ञा¹ने दृशः प्रावर्तयन्नितिः तेषामेव विद्यायाः प्रभावो हिपोक्रिट्सीयविज्ञाने पतित इति चोल्लेखेन² भारताद्विद्याभारं नयतः पाथागोरसस्यानुयायिनस्तत्र प्राथम्येन भैषज्यविज्ञानाभिमुखा दार्शनिका एव हिपोक्रिटसीये हृदये भारतीयभैषज्यविज्ञानोदयाय द्वारतां गता भवेयुः। पाथागोरसाभिधायिनः “पुत्थगोरस” इति ग्रीकशब्दस्य संस्कृतमूलरूपं बुद्धगुरुरिति पोकाक (Pococke) कोलद्रुक (colebrooke) प्र³भृतिविदुषां निर्देशोऽस्ति। पाथागोरसीये दर्शने भारतीयबौद्धदर्शनस्य प्रतिफलनं ⁴बहुशश्चास्ति। न केवलं दर्शने, अपि तु तदीये गणितेऽपि भारतीयप्राचीनशुल्वगणितस्य विषयसाम्यं दृश्यत इति डॉ. थिबोट⁵महाशयेन विभूतिभूषणदत्तमहाश⁶येन च लिखितमस्ति। भारते तदात्वे प्ररूढानि दर्शनगणितादीनि बहुशो विज्ञानानि गृह्नानेनानेन दार्शनिकविषयोपसन्दृब्धा विशेषतो लोकोपयोगिनी चिरप्रतिष्ठिता भारतीय भैषज्यविद्याऽपि गृहीता बहुशः सम्भवति। भारतीया भैषज्यविद्याऽपि पाथागोरसेन ग्रीसदेशे नीतेति बेड्रो (Bedroe) महाश⁷येन, सुश्रुतानुवादभूमिकायां K. L. भिषग्रत्न⁸महाशयेन, गोण्ड⁹लीयठाकुरेण, G. N. मुखोपाध्या¹⁰येनाप्युल्लिखित-

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१. The first philosophers to take a serious interest in medicine were the Pythagoreans. Alcmaeon (a young man in the old age of Pythagoras who was more interested in medicine than in philosophy) of Croton, although perhaps not strictly a Pythagorean was closely connected with the sect and appears to have exercised considerable influence upon the Hippocratic school. Hippocrates Vol. I Intro. P. XIII.

२. Introduction to Suśruta Samhita. Vol I. P. IX. by K. L. Bhisagratna.

३. Pythagoras has been identified with Buddhagoorus as held by Colebrooke:—Buddhagoorus-Sanskrit; Putha-goras-Greek; Pythagoras-English. India in Greece-Pococke P. 364.

४. Cantor, the historian of Mathematics, was so much struck with the resemblance between Greek Geometry and the Śulva Śutras that he, as is natural to the European, concluded that the latter was influenced by the Alexandrian school of Hero (215 B. C.). The Sulva Sutras, however, date about the 8th Cen. B. C., and Dr. Thibaut has shown that the geometrical theorem of the 47th proposition, Bk. 1, which tradition ascribes to Pythagoras, was solved by the Hindoos at least two centuries earlier. Thus confirming the conclusion of V. Schroeder that the Greek philosopher owed his inspiration to India.
History of Hindu Chemistry by Dr. P. C. Roy. P. XLI.

५. Jour. Asiatic Society Bengal 1875 P. 227.

६. Science of the Sulba-Bibhuti Bhushan Dutta. P. 104.

७. The great philosopher (Pythagoras) imbibed his mysteries and metaphysics from the Brahmans of India. Mr. Pococke in his ‘India in Greece’ identifies him with Booddhagurus or Buddha and it is but an easy inference to suppose that he carried many recipes and aphorisms of his Master’s Āyurveda with him.
The Origin and Growth of Healing Art-Bedroe P. 162.

८. Introduction to Susruta Samhita Vol. I P. VIII by K. L. Bhisagratna.

९. The teaching of Pythagoras (B. C. 582), the founder of the Healing Art among the Greeks, is essentially Indian. He is said to have acquired his knowledge from the Egyptians, who, as will be shown further on, had borrowed their art from the Indians. Enfield in his History of Philosophy, says that Pythagoras learnt his doctrine from oriental philosophers, meaning the Hindoos. His Philosophy bears such a resemblance to that of Buddha, that Mr. Pococke, in his India in Greece, identifies him with ‘Buddhagurus’ or Buddha. If he borrowed philosophy from India, he may easily have borrowed the science of medicine from the same source.
Short History of Aryan Medical Science. P. 190-191. by H. H. Bhagvatsinhajee.

१०. The Surgical Instruments of the Hindus Vol. I, by P. 344. by G. N. Mukhopadhyay.