ICIS(INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR

Project Proposal

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN YURVEDA)

Multidisciplinary Research Excellence in Theoretical & Clinical Research High Quality Health Care Leadership Excellence Cutting Edge Technology

Our Vision
The principal objective of the centre is to tap traditional knowledge related to healing from its diverse sources. The knowledge gathered will be made available to researchers so that it can be made use for the collective welfare of the global society. The philosophy underlying ICISA is given shape by its idea to set up research teams, which are drawn from a variety of disciplines in the traditional and modern medicine, natural and social sciences, and humanities. The Institute will be unique in its integrated approach to the study of intersections between science and technology, philosophy, social issues and leadership, so that it can deliver a awless healthcare plan both in the curative and preventive fronts. One of the main objectives of mooting a separate university for health and allied sciences is to improve the overall health care system and its functioning by empowering the state by strong people centric research and development in the eld of medical care. Though the state of health have achieved global standards in many fronts, last couple of years the state experienced unprecedented situation, where we were exposed by newer challenges. The last two years our state of health in Kerala is a true reection of what is called health transition. [1] (Health transition comprises three components, namely demographic transition, epidemiological transition, and health care transition. Kerala has apparently made signicant advances in all the three components. Prof. P. G. K. Panikar; Health transition in Kerala) The health care system of the state was put to litmus test by multiple of challenges the raising gure of noncommunicable diseases like diabetes mellitus, morbidities caused by human interventions, and newer communicable diseases. This demands a medical pedagogy that can deliver the optimum health needs in a people centre manner, i.e., optimum care for all at affordable means. This ideal condition is achievable only when we harmonize various disciplines related to health delivery system. The role of medical pluralism in a successful crafting of a rational, holistic, people centric and sustainable healthcare system is well appreciated in the fundamental philosophy of KUHAS. [2] The founding spirit of KUHAS along with the acceptance of interdisciplinary nature of healthcare indeed accepts the medical pluralism which is part of our legacy. Thus the founding mantra of KUHAS is to nurture a broad base of health care delivery system where skilled people in different areas work harmoniously with an insight, sensitivity, condence and dedication to respond to complex challenges in present day healthcare of Kerala , to achieve the ultimate goal svsthya or positive health.

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Textual Tradition

Model for an Integrative and Interdisciplinary Development of Traditional Systems of Medicine

Phillip Cottingham, Principle, Wellpark College of Natural Therapies, Grey Lynn, New Zealand

Individual Practice

Clinical Research

INTEGRATIVE APPROACH

Immediate Necessity of Interdisciplinary Approach to yurveda

Serving Global Needs

We are living in a world where the natural and articial boundaries are fast obliterating; people and the cultures are meeting more closely and more often in this global village. The knowledge attached to these cultures no longer remains to a region or ethnic group. History repeats, cultures are meeting again, so does all streams of human achievements attached to them. Apart from art and music, probably the diffusion of knowledge in the arena of health care is happening so far and wide in the shortest possible way. For example, modern homeopathy, from west, gained currency in India like in the past Hellenic thought of classical period [3], and in last few decades the spread of Indian systems, especially Yoga and Ayurveda, in health care in Northern countries is on a steep raise. The popularity of complementary and alternative medicine is an international phenomenon. The prevalence of CAM use is estimated at 25% among the residents of the United Kingdom, 50% among German, French, and Australian populations, and 42% to 69 % among the residents of United States. CAM is major growth industry in Europe. [4]

Ayurveda is reaching out to newer populations in and out of its traditional homeland. Thus sudden raise in its clientele naturally brings in the questions related to its standard levels. In order to prevent misuse and also provide correct picture about the system. Ayurveda like any other system must evolve its own standard guidelines in an empirical way. To create this without losing its core identity, Ayurveda needs to speak with other contemporary systems including biomedicine. This dialogue between systems to address a new question unforeseen by the founding fathers is termed as multidisciplinary, in contemporary language. We can see antecedents of multidisciplinary approach in classical treatises of Ayurveda. eka stram adhyno na vidyc chstranicaya One cannot master his system of study by merely studying his/her system. He really needs to have an interdisciplinary approach to really understand his system. Thus interdisciplinary research in yurveda is an approach needed for our times, which is having the sanction of our scriptures.

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Immediate steps should be taken to chalk out a master plan to establish a centre for interdisciplinary researches on Ayurveda, meeting the international standards. This must be directed to ne tune our pedagogy and strengthen our intramural research activities. Once it is properly established it will give better results and greater impetus for contemporary researches (GOLDEN TRIANGLE, NIMITLI) envisaged by our planners. The centre will result in the creation of research projects on shared theme interdisciplinary research programs which should be built around a critical mass of investigators that represent several disciplinary areas linked to the research program. It will strengthen our intramural research and will be identifying prosperous future areas for interdisciplinary research. - Centre for Research in Fundamental Principles, Textual Studies & History ; - Centre for Traditional Medicine & Mainstreaming of Ethno-Medicine with AYUSH Systems and Biomedicine - Centre for Research and Development of Ayurvedic Pedagogy & Research Methodology - Centre for Medical Anthropology with Special reference to South Asian Traditional Systems of Healing. - Centre for advanced Research in Medicinal Plants - Centre for advanced Clinical Research in yurveda - Centre for interdisciplinary Research in Mind-Body medicine - Centre for interdisciplinary Studies in Community and International Health Care - Centre for Exploration of the Prospects of TM in secondary and tertiary care - Centre for Research in Mother-and-Child Health Care - Viacikits or Centre for Research of Traditional Toxicology - Centre for collaborative Research in Mgyurveda (Veterinary Sciences) & Vkyurveda (Plant Science) - Centre for Research in Traditional Ophthalmology - Centre for Research in in Traditional Geriatrics, Preventive and Promotive Health Care

- Centre for Integrative Medicine - Centre for Planning and Development of Medical Tourism The committee must further explore areas where possible interdisciplinary researches can be embarked on in future. The institutions suitable for establishing various above conceived advanced research centers must be identied and their existing facilities must be upgraded to international standards. New centers should be established in the absence of previously working models for upgrade. The intramural research should be given a fresh lease of life by remolding it in line with global needs and standards. The completion of this centre should be implemented in a phased manner, wherein existing centers will be strengthened to global standards and in the case of themes of research newer centers will be commissioned.

First Phase
Traditional practice and textual knowledge forms the two pillars of yurveda system. To harmonize these two streams of yurveda for needs of contemporary practitioner and researcher is the rst task in futuristic exploration of this system. The any attempt to explore an ethic medical stream involves three steps namely: preservation and documentation analysis and synthesis (research and development) education Thus any attempts for interdisciplinary studies in to yurveda or any other traditional medical strength demands the researcher to have a clear picture about its traditional usage and theoretical framework. Before embarking any forms of interdisciplinary studies involving yurveda, one must be familiar with its traditional practice and theoretical foundations. Thus it is ideal to build the pyramid of International Centre for Interdisciplinary studies on yurveda or ICIS on the basis of a Centre for Traditional Medicine and Centre for Research in Fundamental Principles, Textual Studies & History.

Our goal Our goal is to establish an institution and to lay down the foundation stone for the revival and integrative development of the genuine tradition of yurveda. It shall serve the basis for the future dynamic growth of this science in the country of its origin and throughout the world.

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Centre for Traditional Medicine & Mainstreaming EthnoMedicine with AYUSH Systems and Allopathy
Why Traditional Medicine?

The National Knowledge Commission, Government of India, in December 2007, recommended that the work on TKDL should be diversied and expanded. Further, the Commission suggested that steps should be taken for the use and incorporation of TKDL, with all pertinent sources of information, into the minimum search documentation lists of International Search Authorities and other ofces while processing patent applications. (National Knowledge Commission 2005).
Why Tradition medical centre beyond the TKDL scheme?

[T]he commentators on the early texts explicitly declare that they are no longer familiar with the identity of several notorious plants [...] When these commentators are at a loss with regard to the identities of plants or animals, they sometimes refer to tribes, mostly the Kirtas and abaras, as still possessing the relevant knowledge and to be consulted on the matter.
G. Jan Meulenbeld

Healing awareness is part of our pluralistic heritage [5], this was never monopolized by any ethnic, regional or linguistic groups in history of India. Ayurveda, the representative of healing awareness attached to Sanskrit tradition, from its very beginning acknowledges the pluralistic of healing heritage and constant exchanges of ideas and resources between these traditions [6]. When this heritage was lost from the Sanskrit world, its patrons wanted its students to retrieve this knowledge from the parallel non Sanskrit tribal traditions [7]. This clearly shows the need for healing tradition outside the conventional AYUSH (ISM) documentation preservation and its future analysis. The centre will focus its attention to reach out the medical tradition outside conventional AYUSH (ISM). Primary

objective is to identify the ethnic groups and individual healers where in which the healing awareness handed down and preserved in from generations. The centre will act as nodal centre for initiative and coordinate the identication, documentation, analysis and research on ethno-medicinal knowledge available with individuals and ethnic groups. The focus areas will be protection of traditional knowledge, protection against economic and ethical bio-piracy, protection of biodiversity, embark a vision for bio-prospecting (bioprospecting is the exploration of biodiversity for commercially valuable biological and genetic resources) our traditional medicinal and biological knowledge, and thereby empowering the local community or individuals.

Conceiving such a centre is not only a need of healing industry, in a larger perspective identication, analysis and preservation of these traditional knowledge is very essential for efforts to save our biodiversity and promote its sustainable development. The convention on Biological Diversity principal international instrument for achieving the aforesaid goal explicitly acknowledges the role of tradition. [8] The centre work in the direction to get acknowledge for the traditional knowledge beyond the limits of genetic materials. The centre will be devising long term strategies for realizing the proper protection of our traditional knowledge. The coordinated steps will be taken with other agencies like National and State Biodiversity Board.

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The centre will take appropriate action plans to safeguard the rights of stakeholders of traditional knowledge in this IPR driven world. The centre will work in tandem with all responsible state and NGO agencies which are engaged in protecting the rights of our indigenous knowledge. It is our strong belief that bioprospecting will be complete only when its rights are also secured to the local people.

Action against Bio-piracy, IPR and Centre for Bio-prospecting

The centre will act as a processing unit of traditional medical knowledge. There is a great potential of ethnomedicine to get transformed into modern useful products and therapies. It can also benet the commercial establishments by giving valuable leads in developing viable products and processes. The invaluable leads provided by the ethnic knowledge can play a vital role in mainstream research and industries by saving their time and money. It is an accepted fact that the ethnic knowledge associated with a biological resource is an intangible component of the resource itself. The rights of ethnic communities must be protected by evoking the appropriate provisions from the rule of our land [9]. Keeping the model (and considerably improving with relevant amendments) of TGBRIs work on identifying the ethnic usage of rogyapaca or Trycopus spieces [10] with the ki tribe [11], from which TBGRI developed and patented a commercial product jeevani [12]. We can identify new areas for bio-prospecting based on the data collected by centre. The centre will take appropriate action plans to safe guard the rights of stakeholders of traditional knowledge in this IPR driven world. The centre will work in tandem with all responsible state and NGO agencies who are engaged in protecting the rights of our indigenous knowledge. It is our strong belief that bio-prospecting will be complete only when its rights are also secured to the local people. [13] The Biological Diversity Act visualizes a system of decentralized management of biodiversity at the levels of local self government bodies namely grama panchayats, block panchayats and zilla panchayats. The PBRs are expected to include information on availability, historical trends, uses and management of local natural resources with special reference to biodiversity resources, an inventory of local knowledgeable individuals and of knowledge associated with biodiversity, in particular, traditional knowledge and grass-roots innovations of local community members. The centre can effectively work with this scheme in the direction
Peoples Biodiversity Register

of unearthing hidden treasures of our ethno medical traditions. This will effectively widen the scope of PBR for its usage in unravelling our cultural, historical and sociology understanding of our pluralistic society.

Empowering the ethnic communities

Any development that ignores the social and cultural aspirations of ethnic communities will result in their alienation from the resulted social pattern. The prospects generated from knowledge derived from a particular ethnic community should be utilized for empowering them. This strategy will only instill positive attitude towards ethnomedicine but also creative an atmosphere to develop community level awareness for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. A (modied) TBGRI-KANI model [14] of benet sharing can be emulated for future prospective programs. The centre will work in tandem with likeminded institutions viz., Kerala Institute for Research, Training and Development of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (KIRTADS), TGBRI, CCRAS, CCRUM, Tribal welfare department, Folklore academy, and botany, history, anthropology and sociology departments of other colleges and universities who are engaged in exploration of ethnic knowledge related to life sciences. The centre will document the oral and written tradition of ethno medical heritage of the state. This focus of the centre will not be merely restricted to collect medical formulations from the tradition. The centre in collaboration with the centre for textual studies and fundamental principles will explore nosological characteristics, theoretical orientation and its shifts from the classical tradition. This will provide a better understanding about our medical inheritance. Specic features of tradition and salient contribution from this part of India to the greater Ayurveda tradition will be revealed through this analysis. This will indeed shed new light to our historical understanding of ethno-medicine in general and in particular the system of yurveda.

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Implementation of the Centre

The project centre working for TKDL,

(a collaborative project between National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), Council of Scientic and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science & Technology and Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, which is being implemented at NISCAIR) is working in the state for last ve years or so is involved in documenting the healing treasures outside the sphere of conventional textual tradition of yurveda. The current phase i.e., second phase of the project envisaged by Dr.C.Retnakaran , then DAME of Kerala, extended this program beyond the preview of IPR and IPC [ formats to clinicians and researchers by publishing their nding in form of a monograph available in public domain. The centre can embark its novel play even while continuing its current TKDL mandate by making few shifts in its percepts. The project TKDL only focuses on the medicinal formulas from literary tradition of ethno-medicine for catering the needs of IPC [15]. Project in its current form is far from realizing our dream of bio-prospecting of ethnomedical knowledge. By upgrading the project into centre of traditional medicine, it will be able serve a larger community and shoulder the historic responsibility of preserving the nal few drops of our vast medical heritage from vanishing into history.

This will bring in vast experience and visionary personality to the centre and also help to reduce the nancial expenditure. Co-ordinating Research ofcer: one Have a track record of team building that is coupled to interdisciplinary work on traditional medicine. Must have the basic schooling in Ayurveda with expertise in the area of ethno-medicine, preferably, having a masters related to medicinal plants studies or Ayurveda. At least ve year experience in the research and documentation of ethno-medical related to ISM. Publications with standard research journals or Books with ISBN number. Pay scale: Research ofcer: 4 Have a proven track record of working in the of traditional medicine in capacity of researcher, teacher or clinician Graduate/ post graduation in Ayurveda Sound knowledge in Sanskrit, Malayalam and IT Aptitude for clinical and theoretical research involving pluralistic aspects of traditional medicine. He/she must be ready to take sabbatical responsibilities with may involve prolonged stay outside the home station and resolve for constant knowledge updation for future researches. Pay scale: pre-revised scale- 11070-18450 Special Invitee: Eminent researcher is working in any of eld related to ethno-medicine can be invited to centre for sharing his/her expertise with centre and guiding them in their own going or future projects. Their association with the university and remuneration will xed after due consideration of budgetary provisions of the centre during the particular time and pay recommendations in the ongoing projects of that particular time. While xing the honorarium or remuneration and other allowances the guidelines issued by UGC in time to time and conventions followed in other premier universities/ institutions shall be taken in to account.

KEY AREAS OF RESEARCH:

Documentation of ethnic medicinal formulas. Documentation of traditional methods and standards for preparation of medicines including classical products. Documentation of traditional methods of bone setting and massage techniques. Publication of formulas and theoretical insights from the documentation programs in collaboration with textual research centre. Identication of Botanical/Mineral sources Identication of regional variants/substitutes Guide the traditional physician regarding the Legal and Ethical aspects related to IPR Exploring the ethnic food and its processing methods Documentation of traditional agricultural methods Documentation of traditional knowledge in animal care. Documentation of specic healing notions in prevalent in particular regions and communities which are not encoded otherwise and its comparison with other textual traditions. H.O.D

Research Advisory Committee: Chaired by an eminent researcher in the eld of ethno-medicine. Pro-Vice chancellor DAME STRUCTURE OF CENTRE DISM Academician, with post graduate qualication who is Medical anthropologist having previously headed the task of documenting traditional Sociologist working on ethnology medicine, twenty years of academic and which also includes IPR expert administrative experience in the capacity of principal or H.O.D.Centre director of Indian systems of medicine or Ayurveda medical Sr. Research ofcer of centre education CCRAS Nominee Articulate and/or demonstrate a commitment to Registrar- ex-ofco member concepts of traditional medicine in consideration of the KITHARDS Nominee whole person rather a strict conventional academic centric Linguist/ Botanist/ Paleographic expert/ historian will approach. be included in the committee after considering the nature of This can be an honorary post considering the expertise the project involved. and futuristic vision involved for developing such a centre.

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Why Textual Studies & Research in Fundamental Principles of yurveda in current pedagogy, research and practice?
Vision:
Critically explore the pluralistic tradition of yurveda from its own paradigm. Bring modern yurveda community into harmony with its own sources. Appreciate historical shifts in our ethno-medical tradition, its impact on socio-political and cultural fronts over the years. Extend this understanding into scientic research for strengthening our health care system The vision statement of WHO on traditional medicine [16] demands each modern researcher of it to respect its theoretical as well as cultural paradigm. This is possible only by deconstructing the theoretical orientation of the each respective system in such a way that a modern day researcher can appreciate its unique ontological and epistemological orientation. Thus anyone who is in to the research program related to yurveda or any traditional streams of medicine must equip him selves with the theoretical foundations and culture traditions of the system [17]. So need for awless original literature is a primary prerequisite for any traditional medical research. yurveda, the indigenous tradition of medicine in South Asia, has in recent decades become one of the most notable cultural contributions from India to contemporary life-style, health, and personal development culture worldwide (D.Wujastyk and Smith 2009). The development of yurveda as a supplement or even alternative to Modern Establishment Medicine is evident from the ever increasing supply of yurvedic therapies and medicines to healthcare consumers in Europe, the USA, and worldwide (Bode 2008, Banerjee2009). Practitioners of modern, globalized yurveda routinely use tropes of Sanskritic antiquity to justify its authority and value. yurvedic medicines and therapies have been used for thousands of years, it is frequently asserted, tested by generations of patients in India, and sanctioned by an authoritative and trustworthy written tradition of ancient yurvedic textbooks written in Sanskrit. However, these assertions commonly fail the test of close scholarly scrutiny. The whole process of yurvedic globalization and promotion in the modern world has not been adequately accompanied by texthistorical research into the Sanskritlanguage source materials of yurveda. For this, as well as for an understanding of the early history of medicine in South Asia, the critical editing and philologically-aware translation of the foundational yurvedic texts are vital. As pointed out by pre-eminence for the printed texts and notion of their awlessness should be rewritten and a critical approach towards our tradition should brought back to current pedagogy, clinical practice. The critical approach towards stra and the practical application based on it was quite common during our classical Sanskrit commentarial period and these studies will certainly rekindle our mind by demanding a practical sustainable model for yurveda practice rooted on awless stric schemata. We can dream about a bright future for yurveda system and ailing humanity, if we embark a paradigm for understanding and applying this system, wherein we are not losing our scientic temperament with comprising the basic episteme of the system. (WHO 2000). yurveda is bringing more and more scholars to critical study of classical as well as medieval yurveda texts. The historic project of critical edition of Carakasahit by Prof. Karin Preisendanz and her team ( at Vienna University); a new critical edition of another classical treatise, the Bhelasahit, is under preparation (Yamashita 1997), as is a critical edition of Jejjaas commentary on the CS by Kenneth Zysk and Yamashita (Zysk 2009), and a critical edition of the seventeenth century Rogrogavda of Vrevara by Dominik Wujastyk (Wujastyk, forthcoming). All the western studies are scholarly works from philological point of view but denitely missing the practical insights gained through clinical eld. These studies are many a times fails to have an impact on the clinical yurveda: when Orientalist scholars began to take interest in ayurvedic literature. While the rst scholarly documentation on Indian medicine in the form of botanical encyclopedias was not concerned with the conceptual framework of Ayurveda, these scholars were interested in preserving, or even reviving, knowledge of Ayurveda as a historical and philological discipline. Spurred by the notion of a second Why a Global Indian renaissance inspired by an Indian antiquity, Institute in India? After the pioneering works in the they set out to discover the roots of Indian beginning 20th century by stalwarts like medicine, printing and translating the medical Jvnda Vidysrga Bhacrya, Panit texts and writing summaries of their contents. The scholars so involvedincluding Thomas Hemarjaarma, Rudraparara, Wise, Franciscus Hessler, Gustave Lietard, Ydavji Tricumji crya, Palmyr Cordier, and Julius Jolly [...] were Gaanthasensarasvati, mostly medical men, trained in Western medical Yogndranthasen, the future initiatives science [...]Their work, however, seems never to in this direction was basically carried have been directed at making practical use of forward in form individual initiatives in the knowledge gained from the texts in regard to this eld. N.S.Mooss from South and the the more theoretical aspects underlying northern Indian scholar P.V.Sharma yurvedic medicine. (D.Wujastyk and were prominent among who engaged Smith 2009). in textual criticism.(Recently P.V.Tewari This demands a very urgent need critically edited Yogacandrika of for creating a group of Indian physician Lakamaapaita and Va scholars trained in the fundamentals of textual criticism. Thus by reorienting Mdhava) A real attempt to formalize this eld seems to be taken by CCRAS. the textual studies around clinical and The institution being the only nodal theoretical aspects of yurveda, apart institution for generating intramural from philologists, scholars who are data various clinical and involved in comparative philosophies pharmacological projects seems to be and religious studies, and history of lagging behind in the eld of advanced medicine it will be denitely attracting researchers, clinicians, and teachers of yurvedic textual criticism. On the contrary the global interest towards modern yurveda.

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Centre for Textual Studies & Research in Fundamental Principles and History of yurveda KUHAS
Users:

Ayurveda academy Ayurveda researchers Ayurveda clinicians Industry Public Govt. Policy framing and regulations

competitive advantages can only be achieved by efcient utilization of information technology. For these purposes, a common platform called KUHAS Fundamental, Textual and History Research Architecture will be set up at the KHUAS centre that is accessible to all participants and partner organizations.

Accessing channel: As per the policy framed

by KUHAS in accordance with International, national, and state conventions and policies. The access policies are subject to change in national and state policy shifts in subsequent period. Work groups: Centre for Studies in Fundamental Principles, Textual Studies, and History of Ayurveda. KUHAS. Policies: KUHAS, Scientic advisory committee Centre for Studies in

This project consists of two main sections: a) A database architecture that can be
utilized for research projects for students, researchers, and clinicians. The rst phase of this is to create a digital archive of primary sources of yurveda available in printed form in the public domain. At present there is no system to retrieve these yurveda sources. Prof. G.J.Meulenbelds site annotated bibliography of Indian medicine enlists about 40,000 citations related to Indian medicine including yurveda. The research data initiated NIMHI, Hyderabad, CCRAS, covers only research data and DHARA online repository initiated by CCRAS covers only published data in various peer reviewed journals related to yurveda. WHO funded ayurvedacatalogue.com contains only 4400 entries [18]. Thus the archive will be a pioneering project which brings all public domain printed sources of yurveda available for interested public. b) The IT infrastructure required for a modern work environment, providing tools for close interaction within the Centre's Research Areas and other scholarly publics. The centre important thrust will be to generate all available printed texts in searchable digital formats; brhattrayi and mdhavanidna along with its few commentaries are digitized. In line with the DCS (Digital Corpus of Sanskrit) of Oliver Hellwig a digital corpus of yurveda [19]. This will give the researcher a cutting tool to analyze the entire yurveda literature, this revolutionize not only the theoretical and historical research but also the whole framework of yurveda drug and clinical studies will be denitely redrawn. (c) The available digital data of bhattray, in line with the concept of Intra Text.com[20] can be made available in a hyper textual way on a tablet PC interface. It will be providing us word lists, concordances, and statistics. )

Areas of Activities
The centre will be a shouldering the dual function of research and education in to fundamental tenets strictly in appropriation with its textual sources. Thus it will harmonise the contemporary yurveda practitioners, researchers, and pedagogy with its original textual sources. The centre will aim to gain the status of Centre of Excellency in eld of study of fundamental principles and textual studies and history of yurveda in the shortest possible time frame. For achieving this status it will envisage to start following ambitious research and educational projects.

A digital archive of all primary sources of yurveda available in the printed form in public domain. The project will be known as KUHAS AYURVEDA HITORY, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES & TEXTUAL RESEARCH ARCHITECTURE.
The centre brings together a multicultural, multilingual scholarly community for purposes of research in an interdisciplinary eld on various fronts of yurvedic texts, fundamental principles and history. Efcient collaboration among the researchers in the analysis of pluralistic face of yurvedic texts, principles, and history requires an IT infrastructure for data storage and exchange, communication and on-line team-work, and, importantly, for information retrieval and analysis. The Centre recognizes that sustainable

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Expected Outcomes and primary objectives arranged in such a way that it will serve the academic needs
- The primary long-term objective is to capture all books in digital format, thereby to preserve the textual pluralistic yurvedic tradition. - Making available these texts to all interested scholars. - To make a full-text online yurveda digital library managed by yurveda experts with scientic accuracy. - It will offer high editorial quality for all those who are working in the eld of yurveda through a user friendly interface with browsing, search functions, andprovides a barrier-free environment for access of knowledge related to yurveda. - This leads to good at form to develop informatics Division- to develop information management systems (IMS) application in research of AYUSH systems - A secondary benet of online search is to make locating the relevant information inside of books far more reliable and much easier. Student success in nding exactly what they seek will increase and increased success will enhance student willingness to perform research using this large resource. - To bring out critically edited yurveda classics and commentarial literature for the rst time by blending our classical yurveda tradition with international accepted textual criticism principles. (The process by which the editor sets his version of the given text which it has distinction between at least two distinct versions. This is process of establishing a text version involves many complex factors which are often unfamiliar to those outside the realms of textual studies. The critical edition takes note of all known variants of text. - To publish out of print yurveda literature - To publish hitherto published works related to yurveda for medical research. - To generate reference materials related concepts and textual materials for medical researchers. - To bring out Indian editions of yurveda works done outside the country. For example The Siddhasra of Ravigupta was edited and published by Ronald Emmerick in 1981-82, is still not available with our yurveda community. The monumental work on history of Indian Medical literature by Prof.G.J.Meulenebled is not easily accessible to a common yurveda student/ researcher. The printing these texts here will make them accessible to larger yurveda community and thus empowering them to do textual as well as clinical research with greater precision. - Bringing clarity to principles of yurveda theory and practice by collecting, commenting tenets. - Providing newer areas and insights to clinical, drug, pharmaceutical researches. - Documentation of oral tradition of classical yurveda. Classes on various classical texts in Sanskrit and regional languages and specialised treatment traditions like blacikits and viacikits will be video graphed and content will be made available to the public domain keeping in line with agreement with the particular resource person who provides the information. - Creating of DIGITAL LEARNING SPACE. The knowledge generated through the research activities will be

of Ayurveda vaschapti (MD/MS-Ayurveda) and Ayurvedacharya (B.A.M.S) courses, the research scholars and clinicians. TARKYA project of CDAC-Bengaluru envisaged for Sanskrit students can be taken as a model and can be adopted after thorough study and remodelling for catering the needs of yurvedic higher learning. - Publication of medico- historical papers on drug / disease - Exploring the unexplored aspects of yurvedic history, regional peculiarities, tarns-cultural and ethnic peculiarities of yurveda tradition is left untouched by qualied yurvedic researchers, much of which has been undertaken by anthropologists or sociologists. - Establishing a museum showcasing the historical aspects and specialities related to Keralas Ayurveda legacy. - Study the shifts in traditional yurveda pedagogy and explore need to incorporate traditional methods to current learning scheme. - Establishing international collaboration with centers involved in fundamental and textual studies - Establishing ofcial collaboration with governmental and non-governmental and private agencies working in areas of manuscriptology, fundamentals and history yurveda. - Formalizing PhD courses in institutional level as well as international level in form collaborative PhD in eld History of yurveda, fundamentals and textual studies. - Plan clinical research where the holistic and comprehensive outlook of classical yurvedas traditional outlook will be the basis of the research project. The research must demonstrates how the textual studies, knowledge of Sanskrit, daranic principles and traditional yurveda learning can be harmonious utilised for getting effective research design and which may potential role in determining the outcome of study in a positive way. - Start short term and long term courses in fundamental principles of yurveda for modern researchers and clinicians for better understanding of yurveda - Start PhD and post doctoral research schemes in the eld of theoretical, historical and textual aspects of yurveda. - Eestablish collaboration between all scholars who are engaged in the research on various textual, historical, fundamental aspects of yurveda. - To contact seminars, workshops, interactions on these aspects of yurveda. - Create learning tools incorporating relevant aspects from tradition and present day world. - Plan and execute proposals relevant for the better appreciation of textual sources, fundamental principles, and historical aspects of yurveda in future. - Start a rated peer review e-journal on fundamental principles and Ayurveda textual studies. - Embark a new integral PhD program for medical history, textual studies, and fundamental principles of Ayurveda within the next ve years.

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Structure of the institute (1)

Director/H.O.D: The institute for its proper academic structuring and futuristic streaming of its course of action and achievement of goals requires the guidance of visionary researcher with a vast experience. In this context it will be an ideal step to accept the guidance of a proven research genius in eld of textual, historical and fundamental principles of yurveda in level of honorary capacity. The vision and experience will be made used for building up this novel institution and its future course of action. The director (honorary) not only brings in invaluable and unparalleled experience of a visionary researcher and training of the subsequent generations of researchers but also can save the nance involving the appointment of regular director. Qualications: Basic training in biomedicine or yurveda, with proven qualities in eld of study of fundamental principles of yurveda, textual studies supported by standard publications. His/her contribution should have made a difference to the discipline and/or to society. The difference to the discipline/society could be judged in terms of formulating a new concept/ paradigm/ hypothesis/ innovations/discoveries which have been recognized peer group academics, nations and should be in evidence through publications and other form of research output. Person nominated considered for the post of honorary director should be actively engaged in scholarly work even if at the time of the offer he is not holding a position in an academic institute. If selected should be able to spare sufcient time in order to be able to make a contribution to the institute. He should be able to spend sufcient time with centre staffs within or outside the campus of the centre. He must be able to ensure his/her physical presence in the campus for personally overseeing the progress of work, there by guiding and motivating the juniors to accomplish their respective tasks. Teaching experience, academic policy framing experience and research experience including guiding PhD students and framing studies in fundamental studies and textual research for 20 years Nationally and internationally acknowledged in the eld of yurvedic textual studies must be able to command respect in eld of yurveda research. Will be able to identify the core areas of futuristic research in this given eld; must conceive an action plan, and execute the research proposals for the respective areas. Able to instil condence in the research team and train them as better researchers for taking up future challenges. Co-ordinate and guide international and national collaborations with fellow members of the centre. Honorarium : As per the decision of core committee which will ratied by the governing council and the framing will in line with similar practices in other premier UGC recognised universities. Assistant Professor in charge of Associate Director: MD-Ay- ( Ayuveda siddhanta / samhita), (if possible PhD) in yurveda from a recognised university and registered to an approved medical council/board, Topic for masters (MD-Ay) (/PhD) must involve a study directly related to a classical text or commentary, its analysis from theoretical and historical perspective of yurveda. Publication related to classical yurvedic texts and commentaries with ISBN number and articles in rated research journals(ISSN) International and national research paper presentations. Experience in international and national research and co-ordination activities especially in eld of textual studies. Working knowledge of ancient scripts and sound understanding of principles of historical and textual research with special emphasis of Sanskrit medical textual research. Conceptual capacity to introduce the fruits of IT in to yurvedic pedagogy, clinical practice and research and its execution with help of multidisciplinary. Clinical and teaching experience for ve years along with textual research. He/she should be able to handle the dual responsibility of an effective researcher and capable teacher He/she must ready to up take sabbatical tasks at any time that may require long stay outside the home station. He/she must emulate the critical research acumen, leadership, qualities and visionary capacity from the leader. Should be able to deliver Pay scale: Pay shall be xed as per after considering overall qualications and its capable to deliver for the specialised job, his pay will be duly xed as per the government order G.O.(P) No. 58/2010/H.Edn. Dated, Thiruvananthapuram 27.03.2010.

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Structure of the institute (2)

Research Ofcer: Two Graduate in Ayurveda from a recognized University with 5 years experience in area of research. Sound knowledge of Sanskrit, IT related to textual studies and good attitude towards textual studies, fundamentals and historical research will be a denite prerequisite for this post. Able to do eld and textual studies and co-ordinate them if asked to do so. Able to coordinate and execute documentation, digialization, and surveys related to fundamental principles, textual criticism, manuscripts, and history of medicine. To be able coordinate seminars, workshops interactive sessions on fundamental principles of yurveda, textual criticism and history of yurveda with students, academicians, researchers, clinicians, traditional scholars, and general public. He/she must be will to take any sort of sabbatical assignments that may arise during their tenure as Research ofcer and must be able to constanstly update his/her knowledge base Pay scale: In pre-revised scale of 11070-18450. Research Fellows: J.R.F and S.R.F from CCRAS and other AYUSH schemes and research schemes and projects will be selected as per need of specic projects. PhD schemes will be started for the creating specialized resource persons in this elds keeping in mind of its global needs. Manuscript Pandit: Qualications: Post Graduate Degree in Malayalam / Sanskrit with not less than 50% marks or any other equivalent qualication from a recognised university; with a MPhil in Manuscriptology/ Postgraduate diploma in Epigraphy from a recognised university / proven track record in digesting and deciphering medical manuscripts. Sound knowledge of Sanskrit. Knowledge of ancient scripts, employed for writing yurveda manuscripts like ancient Malaya scripts, Grantha, Nandingari. (He/she must execute a bond in form of written afdavit declaring his/her willingness to acquire the knowledge base in a particular script or scripts or particular palaeographic styles required for the execution of future projects, those requires such expertise. Good knowledge and experience in digitalization of manuscripts, computer applications required for codicology and Sanskrit medical textual studies. Pay scale: In pre-revised scale of 11070-18450 All researchers involved should be barred from conducting private practice and must be compensated with non-practicing allowance in with other central government research centres and state government medical colleges. IT Expert: The expert needs a innovative mind with appreciation of linguistic principles and epigraphy for developing the software need of the research (LINUX/ OS X - based), C-DIT and CDAC has some previous experience in the eld of developing such software tools needed for eld of codicology (especially in deciphering ancient Malayalam scripts) and critical editing. The initial stage it is ideal to have collaboration with CDAC or CDIT or likeminded institutions involved in this specialization. Librarian: For keeping the research achieve and reference library for the institute a post of librarian must be created and to posted. Qualication and Pay scale as per government order G.O.(P) No. 58/2010/H.Edn. Dated, Thiruvananthapuram 27.03.2010. Library assistant: Basic qualication required for this post plus working knowledge in English, Devanagari printed script reading ability and IT awareness; Pay scale: In pre-revised scale 4990-7990 IT assistant: Expertise in computer, esp. OS X (Mac) - based programming, along type Devanagari and Malayalam scripts. Knowledge to type set, layout and design books (LaTex, XeTex, TEI, xml). Ability to improve the skills by updating ones expertise in software related to Sanskrit and Indic languages. The ministerial staff required for the execution will be submitted separately after referring the relevant guidelines.

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INFRASTRUCTURE (1)
Sr. No. Designation Information Kiosk / Security FRONT OFFICE 1. No. of Room/ Size in ft. Chambers/Halls 1 30x30 1 10X40 Area in Sq. ft. 900 400 Total Area in Sq. ft. 900 400

H.O.D Centre for Traditional

Medicine
Chamber Anteroom Toilet Visitors Room/ Guest room Secretarial chamber 1 1 1 1 1 1 30x40 10x12 10x12 40x40 20x20 20x50 1200 120 120 1600 400 1000

3340
1200 120 120 1600 400

COMMITTEE ROOM RESEARCH DIVISION

1000 6200

3. 4

Sr. Research Officer IT Assistant Research Officer

1 1 1 1 1 1

20x30 15x20 20x20 20x20 20x20 20x20 40x30

600 300 400 400 400 400 1200

600 300 800 400 300 400 400 1200

RESEARCH FELLOWS

Centre for Fundamentals, Textual Studies & History H.O.D

Chamber Anteroom 5 Toilet Visitors Room/ Guest room Secretarial chamber 1 1 1 1 1 1 30x40 10x12 10x12 40x40 20x20 30x50 1200 120 120 1600 400 1000

3340
1200 120 120 1600 400

Conference Room
6

1500 6200

RESEARCH DIVISION
Associate director IT Assistant 1 1 20x30 15x20 600 300

600 300

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INFRASTRUCTURE (2)
7. Research Officer 1 1 Manuscript Pandit IT assistants 8 9. RESEARCH FELLOWS 1 1 20x20 20x20 20x20 20x20 40x30 60x60 400 400 400 400 1200 3600 800 400 300 400 400 1200 3600

LIBRARY
Library and reading hall Digital library and sound recording studio 1 1 1 2 1 1

40x60 30x40 40x60 60x30x2 30x30 30x40

2400 1200 2400 1800x2 900 1200

2400 1200

10 11 12 13

Museum
Digital classroom Clinic room /research outlet Publication division /Sales counter

2400
3600 900 1200

Thirty thousand nine hundred and eight square feet only- 30980 sq.ft

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Expected Expences (1)

BASIC FACILITIES / COST FOR ASSEST CREATION Equipment and Reference Library Sl.No. Item 1 Desktop Computer iMac/ MacBook Pro (Ass. Professor, Research Officers, Fellows, Librarian + Ass. Librarian, Administrative Assistent) Desktop Computer (IT Expert, 2 IT Assistants) Server

No.s
11

Rate
74900

Total
8 23 900

2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10

3 1

1 63 440 1 92 730 200000 130000 16250 15000 6000 5000 8000

4 90 320 1 92 790 2 00 000 1 30 000 48 750 30 000 1 20 000 65 000 1 20 000 22 20 760

Text Processing Software, .xml-editor etc. 1 - mulitple license Multifunctional Office Laser Printer, 1 Scanner, Copier and Fax Desktop Printer 3 Coach for guest room Desks Executive chair Book Shelf 2 20 13 15

Digitalization Equipment 1 2 3 4 5 6 DSLR Camera Camera Accessories (Macro-Objectives, Tripod, lightning etc.) Digital Voice recorder Laptop Computer MacBook Pro Image Editing Software Professional Book Scanner 2 58500 100 000 3900 89.900,00 65,000 1 17 000 1 00 000

2 2

7 800 1 79 800 65 000 4 69 600 approx. 13 00 000 approx. 13 00 000 approx.17 69 600

Library + Library Equipment 1 2 3 Books Desktop Computer (Public Use) Book Shelf 2 50 74900 8000 15 00 000 1 49 800 4 00 000 20 49 800

Expected Budget (Non-Recurring) for Actualisation of the rst phase of KUHAS International Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on Ayurveda: Sl.No. Item Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 Infrastructure development Equipments Digitalization Equipment Library + Library Equipment Research grant for two centres Establishment / Planning cost / PR ` 30980 sq.ft x 2000 Lists separately given 6 19 60 000 22 20 760 17 69 600 20 49 800 3 00 000 3 00 000 68 60 00 160

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Expected Expences (2)

RECURRING EXPENDITURE Provisional budgetary calculation

Sl.No. 1 2 Designation B a s i c p a y / Spl.Allowances/ H.R.A honorarium DA 5000.00 5000.00 T o t a l p e r Total annual month expenditure 20,000 20,000 24.000.000 24.000.000 H.O.D, Centre for 15,000 T.M H.O.D Centre for 15,000 Ayurveda Fundamentals, textual studies, History A s s t . P r o f i n 15600+ charge of Associate 6000(G.P) Sr. Research Officer Research Officers 11070 (six officers) L i b r a r y / O ff i c e 4990 assistant(2) IT Assistant (3) 5250

3 4 5 6 7 8

756.000

120.000 15.000 150 125 125 150

3.036.000 2.195.500 19855 9007 9470 14372

36.432.000 26.346.000 142.956.000 21.616.800 34.092.000 172464 34 39 35 600

12250 955.500 8635 3892 4095 6232

A d m i n i s t r a t i v e 7990 Assistant

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Work Schedule of Centre for Textual Studies & Research in Fundamental Principles and History of yurveda for its first five years (1)
Sl.No. 1 Ac(vity 1st Year Nos. 2nd Year Nos. 3rd Year Nos. 4th Year Nos. 5th Year Nos Civil work & Should be completed in a ;me bound manner (within 18 months) procurement of equipments & instruments Appointment of Should be done on a need based and as per the regula;ons of university addi;onal approved sta and further strengthening sta paCern Iden;ca;on rare Complete Star;ng 1 . O b t a i n i n g Con;nua;on Comple;on manuscripts and catalogue of Scanning of t h e d i g i t a l Digi;sa;on of of Digital texts, rare Ayurveda Books in copies mss for books and repository printed texts Public domain t e x t u a l expansion of project on and manuscripts launching s t u d i e s i n repository Ayurveda and (in the them to c e n t r e , texts and repositories of public domain formula;on of important govt. by crea;ng a p o l i c y f o r secondary ins;tu;ons digital sharing of mss literature in repository of images the public Ayurveda domain texts 2. Con;nua;on of digi;sa;on and expansion of website Reprint of out of print Ayurveda books (will devise a scheme In line with Rashtriya SanskritSanthan. Delhi) Digital Ayurveda Corpus (DAS) In line with Oliver Hellwing Digital Sanskrit corpus Reprint of Navakhandam Transla;on of English With Malayalam Navakhandha transla;on of Comple;on of Transla;on of gloss and m in to Rasavaisesika Narasimha Bhejapaddha experience and Sanskrit, sutras Bhashyam ; to English opinions of Hindi, English Narasimha English tradi;onal Searchable bhashyam transla;on physicians digital e-book book

Dravyaguna Prepara;on of Con;nua;on por;ons of All searchable of DAS printed texts etexts for DAS including nighantus

Tagging of Comple;on etexts and of rst phase trail execu;on of the Plus analysis project. of the project for clinical, drug, and theore;cal research

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Work Schedule of Centre for Textual Studies & Research in Fundamental Principles and History of yurveda for its first five years (2)
Sl.No. 6 Ac(vity Training programmes like CME/ROTP/ Cer;cate courses 1st Year Nos. 2nd Year Nos. 3rd Year Nos. 4th Year Nos. 5th Year Nos CME and RoTP 2 programmes per year CME and RoTP 2 programmes per year CME and RoTP 2 programmes per year CME and RoTP CME and 2 RoTP 2 programmes programmes per year per year

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Iden;ca;on of Documenta;on Documenta;o scholars trained in of interpreta;on n Documenta;o Tradi;onal Plants classical Ayurveda of classical texts of n Pharmacy knowledge texts outside the interpreta;on Clinical documenta;o documentaio current academy/ of regional experience n n vr ddhavaidya texts To develop SOP of prepara;ons used Development of SOP in collabora;on with other centres in the treatments of based on tradi;onal knowledge textual studies Scope and Ist launch 2 vol. 3 vol. 4 vol. 5 vol. Feasibility of launching Journal of Ayurveda fundamental principles history and textual studies Edi;on proposal of Comple;on of Indexing and Malayalam English Comple;on classical Sanskrit text etext Transla;on Transla;on of transla;on commentaries on prepara;on Projects Astangahrdaya Publica;on sutrasthana

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Iden;ca;on of rare texts , commentaries in the foreign manuscript repository

Cataloguing and Edi;on of Publica;on of edited text with English obtaining the selected mss transla;on digital copies of these enlisted mss

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Work Schedule of Centre for Textual Studies & Research in Fundamental Principles and History of yurveda for its first five years (3)
Sl.No. 12 Ac(vity Ini;a;on Trans cultural studies of Ayurveda, contac;ng interna;onal workshops 1st Year Nos. 2nd Year Nos. 3rd Year Nos. 4th Year Nos. 5th Year Nos MOU with interested Ini;a;on of rst phase and its comple;on centre par;cularly looking forward to Srilanka and NGMCP Hamburg

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Transla;on of Cri;cal analysis of data collected under TKDL SCHEME for beCer Knowledge base understanding of Keralas Ayurveda prac;ce and unique features. from TKDL monograph Vol.1 to English and Sanskrit

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Development of Audio visual aids for students

Audio recording of all Br haCrayi and laghutrayi texts along with its Sanskrit commentaries. Learn Sanskrit through Ayurveda texts easy Sanskrit learn tutorial for Ayurveda scholars through classical Ayurveda texts Classes recorded in line with Tarshya project of CDAC Benguluru Videos for explaining rare plants, treatment procedures and medicinal plant cul;va;on and tradi;onal pharmaceu;cal process.

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ICIS INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN

YURVEDA Project Proposal

Dr.ManojSankaranarayana Lecturer Department of Samhita and Siddhanta Rajiv Gandhi Ayurveda College , Chalakkara, P.B.No.26, Mahe, Puducherry Pin 673310 91-9446915426 Residence: Puleyelathu Vadakke Madam, Thulamparambu South, Haripad Alappuzha Kerala Pin 690514 Tel: 0479-2416226 9446915426.

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Endnotes
[1] Health transition is a complex process comprising demographic (mortality), epidemiological, and health care transitions. It is manifested in rising life expectancy at birth due to changes in the fertility, mortality, and morbidity prole of a population. Demographic (mortality) transition brings down birth and death rates and changes the age structure; epidemiological transition reects changes in the causes of death, from infectious (pandemic) diseases to non-communicable (degenerative, human-made) diseases (Caldwell: 1990; Mc Namera; 1982, p.147 [2] pp.1, 4,46,53The Kerala University of Health and Allied Sciences Ordinance, 2009 [3] "Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other method of treatment." This statement of Mahatma Gandhi shows the impact of this foreign system on our nation. Hellenic period the Greek concepts were introduced to astronomy leading to new branch of it called sahitjyotia. [4] p 2505,Mary Ann Richardson, Tina Sanders, J. Lynn Palmer, Anthony Greisinger, and S. Eva Singletary, Complementary/Alternative Medicine Use in a Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Implicationsfor Oncology: Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 18, No 13 (July), 2000 [5] Heritage is everything that denes our distinct identities of our people. This is bestowed on us by our ancestors and endowed to us by nature. It includes our social, political, cultural and economic systems and institutions as well as our belief systems, ethics and moral values and our customary laws and norms. Heritage includes traditional knowledge which is the creative production of human thought and craftsmanship, language, cultural expressions which are created, acquired and inspired such as songs, dances, stories, ceremonies, symbols and designs, pottery, artworks, scientic, agricultural, technical and ecological knowledge and skills required to implement this knowledge and technologies. Heritage also includes what we inherited from nature such as the natural features in our territories and landscapes, biodiversity which consists of plants and animals and microorganisms and the various diverse eco system which we have nurtured and sustained. [6] C.S.Su.1. [7] The materia medica of Indian medicine is usually characterized as extremely rich. The number of drugs employed is very large and varied indeed. Yet, the pharmacopoeia of classical yurveda is restricted. Substances known in Vedic times are absent. The most famous example of these is soma. Numerous plants used in tribal medicine have not been incorporated. Moreover, the commentators on the early texts explicitly declare that they are no longer familiar with the identity of several notorious plants, such as those composing the octad designated as the aavarga which consists of eight ingredients of important compound medicines. When these commentators are at a loss with regard to the identities of plants or animals, they sometimes refer to tribes, mostly the Kirtas and abaras, as still possessing the relevant knowledge and to be consulted on the matter. Examples are the poisonous substances listed in the Carakasahit (Ca.) and Surutasahit (Su.). Also refer See Cakrapidatta on Ca. Ci. 23.11-13 and alhaa on Su. Ka. 2.5. Compare also Su. Strasthna (S.) 36.10 with the comments by alhaa. G.J. Meulenbeld 2007-2008, A Quest for Poison Trees in Indian Literature Along with Notes on Some Plants and Animals of the Kauilya Arthastra. In: Vienna Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. LI [8] Article 8(j) of the convention, each contracting party subject to its national legislation is required to respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities tangible or visible lifestyles relevant for conservation and sustainable use of Biological resources and promote the wider application of such knowledge, innovations and practices with the approval and involvement of their holders and also encourage the equitable sharing of benets arising from the utilization of such knowledge, innovations and practices. [9] The Geographical Indications of Goods - Registration and Protection Act, 1999; The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act, 2001; The Biological Diversity Act, 2002; The Patent (Second Amendment) Act, 2002.

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[10] The unripe fruits of Arogyapacha are eaten fresh to remain healthy and agile by Kanis during their long trekking trips in the forest for procuring their livelihood requirements. [11] The Kani tribals belong to a traditionally nomadic community, who now lead a primarily settled life in the forests of the Agastyamalai of the Western Ghats, a mountain range along south-western India, in the Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala, India. The Kanis, numbering around 16,000, live in several tribal hamlets, each consisting of 10 to 20 families dispersed in and around the forest areas of Thiruvanathapuram district. The Kanis are the traditional collectors of non-timber forest products from the forest. [12] jeevani patent application for process for preparing an immune system enhancing, anti-fatigue, antistress and hepto-proective herbal drug- P.Pusphangadan,S.Rajasekharan and George V Patent # application # 959/MAS/96,4 June 1996 and process for isolation of a Glycolipid fraction from trichopus Zelyanicus possessing adopatogenic activity K.K.Butani, D.K.Gupta, B.S.Taggi, K.K.Anand, R.S.Kapil, P.Puspangdhan, and S.Rajasekharan, Patent application # 8/Del/94(1994) [13] All the Grama Panchayats having BMCs are required to prepare the Peoples Biodiversity Register (PBR). As per G.O.(Rt.) 618/2010/LSGD dated 24.2.2010 Govt. have accorded permissive sanction to incur an expenditure of Rs.70,000 (Rupees Seventy Thousand only) from the General Sector Development Fund of the Annual Plan or own general purpose fund for 2010-11. All Gram Panchayats having BMCs are required to utilise the fund and complete works on PBR before 31.3.2011. The PBR registry generating at end of 2011 March itself provides a comfortable data for shaping the future course of our centre for traditional medicine. [14] Dr.P.Pushpangadan, then Director TGBRI, and Kani tribal leader Kuttimathen Kani received the United Nations Equator Initiative Prize 2002 at the Earth Summit held in Johannesburg for their pioneering venture to identify the ethnic knowledge, its bio-prospecting and social empowerment of the ethic group. [15] 14 Traditional Knowledge documentation lacked a classication system. Therefore, a modern classication system i.e. Traditional Knowledge Resource Classication (TKRC), based on the structure of International Patent Classication (IPC) was been evolved for Indian Systems of Medicine viz., Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Yoga.TKRC is a structured classication consisting of sections, classes, subclasses, groups and subgroups, similar to that included in IPC system, relating to Indian traditional knowledge for facilitating the patent examiners in retrieval of information related to prior art, before granting a patent in the area of traditional knowledge. http://www.tkdl.res.in/tkdl/langdefault/ common/Faq 01.01.2011 [16] Some of the objectives specic to the assessment of traditional medicine through clinical are to: evaluate traditional medicine in its own theoretical framework. Holism is a key element of all systems of traditional medicine. Therefore, when reviewing the literature on traditional medicine (both herbal and traditional procedure based therapies), the theories and concepts of the individual practice of traditional medicine, as well as the cultural background of those involved, must be taken into account. General guidelines for Research in Traditional Medicine 2000 [17] In one estimate, at least 200 hours of Ayurvedic training are needed for an allopathic physician to acquire enough knowledge to adequately integrate Ayurveda into his or her practice. p.3, BALA V MANYAM Perspective on Ayurveda, CAM AT NIH, Focus on Alternate and Complementary Mediciine,VO L U M E X I I , N U M B E R 4 FA L L 2 0 0 5 / W I N T E R 2 0 0 6 [18] In the current DATABASE INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF AYURVEDIC PUBLICATIONS more than 4400 entries covering over 19 different subjects have been made which includes publications within and outside India, and in all languages. http:// www.ayurvedacatalogue.com/aboutproject.html as on 04.01.2011

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[19] (DCS, theDigitalCorpus ofSanskrit, is a searchable collection of lemmatized Sanskrit texts. It offers free internet access to a part of the database of the linguistic programSanskritTagger, which has been under constant development since 1999. DCSis designed for research in Sanskrit linguistics and philology. Its interfaces make it possible to search for lexical units and their collocations in a corpus of about 2.850.000 manually tagged words. In addition,DCSgenerates distributional key values and performs statistical tests that can be used to assess the distribution of lexical units from a chronological or user dened perspective. Lexical units can be retrieved from the dictionary via a query interface or a dictionary page. For each lexical unit contained in the corpus,DCSoffers the complete set of references and a statistical evaluation based on historical principles. As an alternative, philological research can start from the interlinear lexical analysis that accompanies each text contained in the database. This analysis offers easy access to the dictionary, which, in turn, leads to the philological details about a lexical unit.) http://kjc-fs-cluster.kjc.uni-heidelberg.de/dcs/ as on 04.01.2011. [20] IntraText is a digital library that offers an interface while meeting formal requirements. Texts are displayed in a hypertextual way, based on a Tablet PC interface. By linking words in the text, it provides Concordances, word lists, statistics and links to cited works. Most content is available under a Creative Commons license[1] It also offers publishing services that enable similar advantages. The IntraText interface applies a cognitive ergonomics model based on lexical hypertext and on the Tablet PC or touch screen interface. It uses a set of tools and methods based on HLT (Human Language Technologies). http://www.intratext.com/ as on 04.01.2011

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