The Department of Samhita & Basic Principles of Ayurveda, School of Ayurveda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, conducted a two-day seminar “Charakatatvamritam 2019”- Parayana and Sambhasha on Charaka Samhita Chikitsa Sthana, from October 28-29, 2019.

Dr. Leena P. Nair (Associate Professor, School of Ayurveda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) introduced the resource persons and welcomed the gathering. Dr. R. N. Tripathy (Vice-principal, School of Ayurveda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) delivered the inaugural speech and Dr. Ramesh N. V. (Professor, Department of Rasashastra and Bhaishajya Kalpana, School of Ayurveda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham), gave felicitations to the programme.

Dr. S. R. Santhosh Nair (Associate Professor & Head, Ch. Brahma Prakash Charaka Samsthan, New Delhi) and Dr. Prakash Mangalassery (Professor, VPSAV, Kottakkal), were the resource persons. Dr. Haroon Irshad (Associate Professor, Department of Samhita, Sanskrit & Siddhanta, School of Ayurveda, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) proposed the vote of thanks.

The sessions were highly beneficial to the students and the resource persons were good orators with in-depth knowledge of the principles and practices of Charaka Samhita. The programme was conducted for the second-year and third-year undergraduate students as well as second-year postgraduate scholars. A total number of 150 delegates were benefitted by the sessions.