THE HRIDAYAPRIYA OF PARAMESVARA

Abstract

“It was a few years back that I had a conversation with Dr.Manoj Sankaranarayana about this book, when we met on an Unni Mooss Day at SNA Oushadhasala, Thrissur, Kerala. He had mentioned to me about the manuscript of this book available at my ancestral home Vaidyamadham. Eventhough I made an enquiry about the manuscript to my mentor Late Aṣṭavaidyan Vaidyamadham Cheriya Narayanan Nambudiri, I forgot to refer it then. It was in Early in this year, I had gone through this work at my ancestral home Vaidyamadham and it was understood that the manuscript was being worked upon by Literary Institute for bringing out a complete critical edition. At the same time, I was alerted by Dr.V.V.Anilkumar, Asst. Professor, Sri Sankara College, Kalady that scanned copies of many old Sanskrit texts are available at http://sanskrit documents.org/scanned books/ and that anyone could download the documents freely with a software application. I started searching for several books in the website and got valuable works such as Ayurvedaprakāśa, Ayurvedasūtram, Arogyacintāmaṇi etc. and incidentally this work too.