Lakshmana Pandita was the
author
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of ''Vaidyarajavallabha'' (also known as Vaidyavallabha), a
Sanskrit
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book on
Ayurveda
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written during the
Vijayanagara Empire
The Vijayanagara Empire, also called the Karnata Kingdom, was a Hindu empire based in the region of South India, which consisted the modern states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Goa and some parts of Telangana and Mahar ...
in the 15th Century. He was a Paramacharya of King Bukka II.
His other popular work is ''YogaCandrika'', a treatise on Ayurvedic medicine.
[YogaCandrika]
Notes
References
* Durga Prasad, History of Andhras, Guntur, 1988, page no - 270.
Writers from Karnataka
Ayurvedacharyas
Indian medical writers
15th-century Indian writers
People of the Vijayanagara Empire
Scholars of Vijayanagara Empire
External links
List of Ayurvedic Indian booksHindi translation of Lakshmana Pandita's work{{India-writer-stub