Yogasataka. Texte médical attribué à Nagarjuna

by Jean Filliozat

on ayurvedic medicine comprising about one hundred ‘combinations’ (yoga), i.e. therapeutic formulas. Several of its manuscripts survive and the text was translated into Tibetan and Kuchean, signs of its popularity and wide spread. More a collection of recipes than a treatise, it explains, amongst other things: cures for fever, general therapeutics, care for the eyes, remedies for poisoning, for maladies attributed to demons, and for those that affect children, aphrodisiacs, elixirs of youth and purgatives. The present volume is a critical edition of the Sanskrit text accompanied by the Tibetan version, which appears very faithful to the original, and a French translation. The book also contains a French introduction and an English summary of the French introduction.