CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CHAKRAPANI DATTA'S UNIQUE INTERPRETATIONS ON THE SWASTHA CHATUSHKA OF CHARAKA SAMHITA

Charaka samhita is one of the most ancient, comprehensive, authoritative original texts of Ayurveda. The whole text deals with various factors related to health measures. charaka samhita has framed in form of shloka or sutra. sutra has gunas like Alpaksharam Asandigdham Saravat vishwatomukham Astobham Anavadyam cha sutram sutra vido viduh.on this basis moola granthakara has written. all the essence of particular concept has been explained in the shlokas. in later peroids Tikakaras came. Tika means Tikyate gamyate pravishyate jnyate va Anaya which means whereever the moolagrantha seems difficult to understand, tikakara helps in critical analysis by using Arthashrya, Tantra yukti, Tcchilya taking into consideration of all these. tikakara gives explanation were readers can easily go into depth of concept. so in swastha chatushka there are many instances explained by chakrapani among them unique contributions are mentioned.