http://tdudspace.texicon.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/13 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:35:37 GMT 2026-04-14T19:35:37Z http://tdudspace.texicon.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/215 Title: Knowledge generation in Ayurveda: Methodological aspects Authors: Venugopal, S. N.; Shankar, Darshan Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://tdudspace.texicon.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/215 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://tdudspace.texicon.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/206 Title: Controversial identities of medicinal plants in classical literature of Ayurveda Authors: Thomas, Varghese; Venugopalan Nair, S.N; Ved, D.K; Shankar, Darshan Abstract: India's medical heritage across its two streams of experiential knowledge viz. the classical (codified) and folk (oral) reveals an incredible range and depth of knowledge of medicinal plants. In the classical stream of Ayurveda, across the period from 1500 BCE to 1900 CE, there is information of more than 12,000 distinct Sanskrit plant names with overlaps across texts. This information is captured in more than 200 texts viz. 6 samhitas, 57 nighantus and 140 vyakhyas. The information about plants has three major dimensions in codified literature viz. morphological description (rupa gnana), pharmacology (dravya guna shastra) and pharmacy (bhaishajya kalpana). The morphological information is however sketchy and wholly inadequate for establishing botanical identity. Thus despite the huge corpus of plant names backed by sophisticated understanding of pharmacology and pharmacy there is the fact of controversial identities of medicinal plants. Why is this the case? The author believes that the gap in morphological detailing is due to the ‘experiential’ pedagogy of India's health tradition. While knowledge transmission of plants included theoretical propositions and sophisticated logic related to pharmacology, it also assumed an oral, practical and experiential system of learning about the identity of plants through field work. The purpose of this research is to understand the range and depth at which we have understood the problem of controversial identities of medicinal plants, to analyze work done in the field and to propose a Trans disciplinary approach to solve the problem of controversial identities of medicinal plants in Ayurveda. Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://tdudspace.texicon.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/206 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z http://tdudspace.texicon.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/74 Title: Knowledge generation in Ayurveda: Methodological aspects Authors: Nair, S N Venugopalan; Shankar, Darshan Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://tdudspace.texicon.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/74 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z http://tdudspace.texicon.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/64 Title: Indian Medicinal Plants Database (IMPLAD) and Threatened Medicinal Plants of India Authors: Nair, S N Venugopalan; Ved, D K; Ravikumar, K; Tabassum, I F; Suma, T S; Somasekhar, B S; Sangeetha, Sathya; Barve, Vijay; Naveen, Shilpa; Payyappalimana, Unnikrishnan; Shankar, Darshan Abstract: Medicinal plants have become of great relevance to the health care of the people, with a vast global population still relying on them. While developing the nation’s most comprehensive, multidisciplinary database on flora, fauna, metals, and minerals of traditional Materia Medica from primary texts over the period 1500 BC to 1900 AD, IMPLAD (Indian medicinal plants database) has grown into a multifaceted platform for research, education, and outreach. This has referenced searchable botanical information (botanical names and its synonyms, 200 thousands vernacular names in 32 Indian languages, distribution, threat status study, state inventories, GIS maps, plant images) and traditional knowledge (Sanskrit names, bibliography from 20 major classical texts of Indian systems of medicine Ayurveda, Ayurvedic pharmacology and pharmacopoeia data, original Sanskrit Shloka references, glossary of technical terms) of around 6500 medicinal plants of India. This facility has been empowering people with knowledge on traditional health care and natural resources as its one of the major objectives. It focuses on innovation, designing, and developing informatics facilities for the purpose of understanding, conserving, and propagating Indian systems of medicine, bearing in mind the requirements of education, research, and application in the sector. IMPLAD has improved our current understanding of medicinal plants and traditional knowledge in India and detailed field level information on many endangered species of conservation concern. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://tdudspace.texicon.in:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/64 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z