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Ayurveda (आयुर्वेद; Āyurveda, "the knowledge for long life in Vedas"; or ayurvedic medicine is a Hindu system of traditional medicine native to India and a form of alternative medicine. The earliest literature on Indian medical practice appeared during the Vedic period in India, in Rigved.
Some other known written text are Suśruta Saṃhitā and the Charaka Saṃhitā, encyclopedias of medicine compiled from various sources from the mid-first millennium BCE to about 500 CE, and are among the foundational and formally compiled works of Ayurveda. Over the following centuries, ayurvedic practitioners developed a number of medicinal preparations and surgical procedures for the treatment of various ailments. Current practices derived (or reportedly derived) from Ayurvedic medicine are regarded as part of complementary and alternative medicine. (Full article...)
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- ... that in 2012, a three-day World Congress of Religions conference was organized by the Institute of World Religions to commemorate the 150th birthday of Swami Vivekananda?
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- October 01 Papankusha Ekadashi
- October 01, 2001: 2001 Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly terrorist incident
- October 1, 1847, Birth of Annie Besant
- October 04 Kojagara Puja, Sharad Purnima
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- October 08 Karwa Chauth
- October 12 Ahoi Ashtami
- October 13, 1911, Death of Sister Nivedita
- October 15 Rama Ekadashi
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- October 25 Chhath Puja
- October 27, 2013 Patna bombings
- October 28, 1867, Birth of Sister Nivedita
- October 29, 2005 Delhi bombings
- October 30 Kansa Vadh
- October 30, 1883, Death of Dayananda Saraswati
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