Agada

Agada

:"For other uses, see Aggadah and Haggadah of Pesach."Agada is one of the eight branches into which medical pseudoscience is divided by the Hindus. Agada treats of the best antidotes to Poisons, or toxicology.

Agada Tantra is defined as a section of toxicology; practitioners claim to be able to deal with food poisoning, snakebites, dog bites, insect bites etc. The school of toxicology was founded and run by Kashyapa, also known as Vriddhakashyapa, another contemporary of Atreya Punarvasu. He lived in Taksashila, Pakistan. His text was called the Kashyapa Samhita. This, however, is a different book than the Kashyapa Samhita of pediatrics. This text is not available now but the references of this text are found mentioned in different commentaries. Some other texts written by Alambayana, Ushana, Saunaka, and Latyayana were known to exist. However except for references to them, the original texts are no longer available.

The traditional practice of toxicology is still practiced by different families of Vishavaidyas (poison doctors) who claim to be specialists in toxicology. In fact, their knowledge is quite limited (especially compared to the knowledge attributed to earlier ayurvedic physicians) but villages still use these practices to attempt to deal with poisonous bites. In ancient times, it was the job of Vishavaidyas to protect members of the royal families from being poisoned, as well to poison enemies of the kings.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • agada — ⇒AGADA, subst. fém. HIST. RELIG. Type de littérature populaire juive ayant pour objet des enseignements non fixés par la « loi » écrite ou orale, et jouissant de ce fait d une moindre autorité que celle ci. Anton. halachach : • 1. L agada ...… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Agada — (Instrum.), so v.w. Kwetz …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Agada — Agada, s. Haggada …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Agada — Agada, est un nom masculin sanskrit, composé du préfixe « a » ayant le sens de « sans » et « gada » portant le sens de maladie, signifie sans maladie, être en bonne santé, remède, panacée universelle. Dans le… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Agada — Aggada (hebräisch: אגדה „Verkündung/Erzählung/Sage“) bezeichnet, im Unterschied zur Halacha, die homiletischen und nichtgesetzlichen Inhalte der antiken rabbinischen Literatur, die – meistens im Anschluss an biblische Texte und Stoffe – das… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Agada — Seph. Heb. /ah gah dah /, Ashk. Heb. /euh gah deuh/, n. Aggadah. * * * …   Universalium

  • Agada — terrain marécageux Hautes Pyrénées …   Glossaire des noms topographiques en France

  • agada — flagada …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • Agada — Seph. Heb. /ah gah dah /, Ashk. Heb. /euh gah deuh/, n. Aggadah …   Useful english dictionary

  • agada-veda — अगदवेद …   Indonesian dictionary

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”