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Study of Astanga Hridayam and Charaka Samhita in Religious Centres of Ancient Tamilnadu

There is an inscriptional reference to the teaching of medical sciences in a Mutt in South India. The mutt was attached to the temple of Tiruvadu-turaiyudaiyar at Tiruvaduturai is referred to in a Chola inscription dated 1120AD.  The mutt made provisions for the study of medical sciences like Ashtanga Hridayam and Charaka Samhita and also of vyakarana and rupavatara. The students studying in the mutt were fed in the dharma chatra attached to the temple.

Ref: S. Gurumurthy. Medical sciences and dispensaries in ancient south india as gleaned from epigraphy. Indian J Hist Sci. 1970 May;5:76-9.
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