About this site

This site presents the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya of Vāgbhaṭa, a Sanskrit treatise on medicine, together with two commentaries, in IAST (romanized, diacritic) transliteration. The Sanskrit text is derived from the 1939 edition of Kunte et al.

The three texts

The root text is set in larger type at the full measure. Two commentaries follow it, each set smaller and indented behind a rule, labelled with the same abbreviations used in print: Sa. for Aruṇadatta’s Sarvāṅgasundarā, and Ā. rā. for Hemādri’s Āyurvedarasāyana. Each commentary can be hidden independently with the controls at the head of a chapter.

This division is not editorial guesswork on this site’s part: the source marks the start of each comment with its own abbreviation, and that distinction has been carried through directly.

Hemādri’s commentary is only preserved for part of the text

Unlike Aruṇadatta’s, which runs throughout, Hemādri’s Āyurvedarasāyana is present in this source only for:

• all of Sūtrasthāna and Kalpasiddhisthāna,
• the first six chapters of Nidānasthāna (of sixteen), and
• the first seven chapters of Cikitsāsthāna (of twenty-two),

and is absent from Śārīrasthāna and Uttarasthāna entirely. Where it is absent, the “Show Hemādri” control does not appear, since there is nothing to toggle. This pattern comes directly from the source and looks consistent with partial survival of the commentary rather than a gap in this site’s extraction — but it has not been independently checked against the manuscript tradition, and is worth verifying against catalogue information on the text if you rely on it.

Source

The Sanskrit text was drawn from vedotpatti.in, which uses the same underlying e-Samhita reading-room software as the NIIMH sites (e-Suśruta, e-Caraka) this site’s sibling projects are built from. The Vedotpatti website is extremely well designed and implemented, and users are recommended to use it. The present, simplified presentation of the Sanskrit text is created for long-term archival preservation, stability, and ease of local consultation.

Known limitations

• Only the IAST (diacritical) rendering is included here; the original site also offers Devanagari and several other Indic scripts.
• Only “full chapter” view was captured; the original site’s per-passage (sub-chapter) navigation is not reproduced.
• Verse and chapter divisions follow the source edition.
• This text carries no footnote or variant-reading apparatus in the source, so none is reproduced here.
• If you notice missing or garbled passages, please compare against the original site and open an issue at GitHub.