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Ayurveda and Iconography

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Image 1,3,7 is some exposition on Ayurvedic topic, the word vyākhyāsyāma found. All are fragment palm leaf. Image 1 Sometime quotes from Hārīta, the traditional Ayurvedic teacher. Here also quoted from another Ayurvedic teacher Caraka. One of the traditional Ayurvedic therapeutic process is mentioned here i.e. Svedana that uses steam or heat to induce sweating. The svedana used to eliminate deep seated toxins. Image 3 According to Ayurvedic teacher Caraka is, if anybody suffering from fever should be apply candana or sandal oil as forehead ointment.
Image 7 is about cough or śleṣmā and jvara or fever, Caraka is being quoted here.
All available folia are partially broken condition.
Image 2 there is no text in this folio. Only colourful paintings on seven Buddhist Bhiṣak and deities.
Image 4 is also colourful paintings on five male deities only and no text. One of the deity of them is of black complexion, two handed and in sitting mode. Next four deities are of white complexion. Somebody of them have eight arms, and Somebody four handed. All of them are in various symbolic hand gesture, like deepen meditation within the body, which acts as energetic seals of Buddhism to convey the spiritual teachings.
Image 5 is blurred. Image 6 colourful paintings of five female Buddhist deities. Two of them are fair complexion, eight handed and in sitting mode with symbolic hand gestures. In this image all of the female deities are three faced.

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