A four-day national seminar on yoga and ayurveda, organised by the Academy of Yoga and Oriental Studies (AYOS) was inaugurated here at the SC/ST and RTI conference hall on Wednesday.
Inaugurating the seminar, Vice-Chancellor of Jagannath Sanskrit University, Puri, Prof Gangadhar Panda spoke on the essence of yoga and ayurveda. Guests like Puri district Collector Dhirendranath Patnaik, Director of SC/ST and RTI Akhil Bihari Ota and Prof Pramod Chandra Mishra praised the activities of AYOS in disseminating Indian culture and tradition as embodied in various tenets of ancient scriptures.
The meeting was presided over by AYOS Director Dr Indulata Das. The inaugural session was followed by an academic session, where in Prof Suryamani Rath and Prof Pramod Chandra Mishra presented their papers on “Aahar” and “Dugdham”, respectively. Then, there was a question-answer session chaired by eminent Sanskrit scholar S Sundar Rajan.
The four-day seminar will cover contributions of Bhavaprakash to yoga and ayurveda. Subjects of much value and interest like “Roga Pariksha in Bhavaprakash”, “Yogic tenets on Jabaldarsanopanishad”, “Hridroga in Bhavaprakash”, “Concept of surgery in Bhavaprakash”, “Contribution of Bhavaprakash in ayurveda”, “a study on Haritaki Omkara in the Upanishad”, “lifestyle disorder in Bhabaprakasa”, “Dietetic rules to kindle Agni” and Yogic tenets in Upanishad. Scholars from New Delhi, Varanasi, Allahabad and various universities of Odisha and Andhra are attending the mega intellectual event.