Vagbhata is regarded as the author of one of the three major medical source-books in India; he is classed with Charaka and Susruta. He is the most celebrated author in the history of medicine.
It was said that he lived in the sixth century; he is in any case earlier than the tenth century.
Vagbhata, son of Simhaguota was named after his grandfather, the great physician Vagbhata: he hailed from the Sindhu country.
He studied medicine under his own father and later under a Buddhist mendicant and physician named Avalokia.
The most common used text of Vagbhata is the Astan'gahrdayasamhita (Compendium in the Heart of Medicine) which is considered the greatest synthesis on Ayurveda ever produced.
The work is quoted in the Firdaws al-Hikma or Paradise of Wisdom composed in AD 850 by the Persian physician Ali Ibn Sahl Rabban at Tabari who gives a very complex summary of the Ayurvedic doctrines.
Vagbhata was the first author who mentioned the concept of medical astrology in his writings. He wrote that the course of illnesses.
Vagbhata: author of Compendium in the Heart of Medicine
