Concept of Ayurveda and Arithmetic Numbers in Atharva Veda

There are numerous suktas dealing with healing and the expansion of life. Consequently Ayurveda, the initiation of medication in antiquated and medieval India is known as an upaveda or assistant Veda of Atharva Veda.Ancient texts and scriptures pertaining to ayurveda and atharva veda have been found in large numbers.

The three fundamental sorts of human constitution as said in the Atharva Veda are :

  • Vata
  • Pitta
  • Kapha

A few particular infections including some conveyed by worms or germs are shown along with their cures. The treatments using herbs are also mentioned. The assurance offered by a prayer supplications, are usually pictured as a kavacha or a covering the interfering essential strengths specified in numerous spots. This thought has now advanced to a new level in the tantric writing which portrays only a few kavacha-supplications because of goddess Durga, Vishnu and so forth.

One fascinating sukta in this family is ayuh sukta. The sonnet starts with a supplication to the divine force of death antaka and urges the individual to have the objective of persistent change, i.e., go up and up constantly and in the long run achieve the status of an all-round flawlessness or the chariot of everlasting status, amrta ratha.Prana and apana, the two complementary strengths which keep up our living conditions are prayed equally.

Hymns in Ayurveda

•Steps towards long life (25)

•General Treatments (43)

•Cures for Specific Diseases (45)

•Eradication of Germs (4)

•Antidotes to Poison (7)

•Countering evil tendencies and Inimical forces like pain, suffering, sin,etc(65)

•Food and its metaphors (12)

•Therapies based on wearing gems (12)

Arithmetic-Numbers and Decimal system

The names for the numbers one to nine found in Rig Veda are :

  • eka
  • dve
  • tri
  • chatur
  • pancha
  • shat
  • sapta
  • ashta
  • nava

The names for ten, twenty……, ninety happen later in Rig Veda. The intermediate numbers have suitable names. For example ninety-four is named four in addition to ninety. Nineteen is communicated one under twenty and so forth. Rig Veda has a number 3339 spelled as three thousand, three hundred and thirty nine. Rig Veda has more than a hundred references to numbers.

The Shukla Yajurveda noticed that the numbers up to ten raise in powers of 12 in ventures of difference of 10, to be specific

  • ayuta (10–4)
  • niyuta (10–5)
  • payuta (10–6)
  • arbuda (10–7)
  • nyarbuda (10–8)
  • samudra (10–9)
  • madhya (10–10)
  • anta (10–11)
  • parardha (10–12) and so on.

The Atharvaveda Samhita uncommonly underscores the normal relationship somewhere around one and ten, three and thirty, five and fifty, nine and ninety, plainly demonstrating that the people of the Vedic age had a decent handle of the nuts and bolts of decimal framework for constructive whole numbers.

shatam te ayutam hyanan dwai trini chatvari krama

Ayuta is ten thousand and shatam cha ayutam is one million.Today The number is read in reverse order by the standard convention.

 

Hinduism’s comprehension of time is as pretentious as time itself. While most societies construct their cosmologies in light of well known units, for example, couple of hundreds or a great many years, the Hindu idea of time grasps billions and trillions of years. The Puranas depict time units from the minuscule truti, enduring 1/1,000,0000 of a second to a mahamantavara of 311 trillion years. Hindu sages depict time as cyclic, an interminable parade of creation, protection and disintegration. Researchers have communicated awe at the exactness of space and time portrayals given by the old rishis and holy people, who understood the insider facts of the universe through their mystically awakened senses.

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