Dr. Priyanka Shandilya

Sophisticated Misrepresentations and elaborate Academic Falsehoods : Claims of Ayurveda’s “supposed” Greek origins dismantled …

Dr Priyanka Shandilya Editorial Note: This article is part of a Series on the purvapaksha of Western interpretations of Āyurveda. The claims and arguments made in the paper “The Science of Medicine” , by Dominik Wujastyk are examined with the traditional drishti. Some of the important and essential “tools” of videshi scholarship, are “misinterpreting epistemology […]

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The efficacy of Ayurveda and the COVID-19 conundrum. Some real-world insights.

Dr. Priyanka Shandilya Editor’s Note: There has been a wide ranging discussion and all manner of opinion, outrage, outcry, dozens of litigations, thousands of pages of newsprint, millions of tweets and social media posts, attacking Ayurveda and its very existence as a legitimate health and wellness paradigm. The overactive anti-India,

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Videshi scholarship mangles Ayurveda once more .. Disease Models are misinterpreted, mauled and misrepresented

Dr Priyanka Shandilya Editorial Note: This article is part of a Series on the purvapaksha of Western interpretations of Āyurveda. The claims and arguments made in the work “Models of Disease” , pre-print paper by Dominik Wujastyk are examined with the traditional drishti. Some of the important and essential “tools” of videshi scholarship, are “misinterpreting

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Videshi scholarship accuses Charaka of “plagiarism” : The Battle for Āyurveda begins …

Dr Priyanka Shandilya Editorial Note: This article is part of a Series on the purvapaksha of Western interpretations of Āyurveda. The claims and arguments made in the paper “The Path to Liberation through Yogic Mindfulness in Early Ayurveda” by Dominik Wujastyk are examined with the traditional drishti. One of the traditional “tools”of the videshi trade

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Is Āyurveda Videshi or is it just another case of Greediocy ? The Battle for Āyurveda begins …

Author: Dr.Priyanka Shandilya. Editorial Note: This article is part of a Series on the purvapaksha of Western interpretations of Āyurveda. The claims and arguments made in the paper “AGNI AND SOMA: A UNIVERSAL CLASSIFICATION” by Dominik Wujastyk are examined with the traditional drishti. Serious claims as to Ayurveda’s “foreign” origins are made by Wujastyk. The interesting and

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Is Āyurveda Adharma ? The Battle for Āyurveda begins …

Editorial Note: This article is part of a Series on the purvapaksha of Western interpretations of Āyurveda. The claims and arguments made in the paper “Medicine and Dharma” by Dominik Wujastyk are examined with the traditional drishti. Videshi (by drishti) scholar Wujastyk implies in his 2004 paper that Āyurveda is Adharma. Prof. Wujastyk first…

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Ayurveda is VEDA – the VEDIC Ancestry of Ayurveda Cannot be Ignored.

“All ancient Indian sciences have their roots in the vedas and strive toward a common goal, the moksha. Ayurveda and its paradigms too are robustly rooted in Vedas and in the ethico-cultural context of “Bharata”, hence its association with the Vedas is indissoluble”. Ayurveda, the Indian…

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