The demand for Ayurveda is growing globally, the scientific fraternity attracting towards alternate systems of medicine, which are safe. In the scenario a need was felt to prepare e-books of ancient Ayurvedic classics for the easy access, learning and to make it user friendly.

I am happy to present the e-Book on 'Carakasaṁhitā' with Āyurvēdadīpikā commentary of Cakrapāṇidatta along with all relevant notes. All the efforts have been made to provide grammatically correct version of mūlapāṭha in Sanskrit language. It is available in 8 Indian scripts like Bengali, Dēvanāgarī, Gujarati, Gurmukhī, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Diacritical (ISO 15919) script & Phonetic English.

I hope this will cater the demands of the Ayurvedic scholars, Researchers, students & practitioners.

I appreciate the efforts of Dr. Bhuvnesh Kumar Sharma, Research Officer (Ay), Dr. Vinod Kumar Lavaniya, Research Officer (Ay), Dr. R. Rajasekharan, Research Officer (Siddha), Mr. V. Rangamannar, Senior Research Fellow (IT), Dr. G.P. Prasad, Assistant Director (Ay.), Dr. V. Giridhar, SRF-Ph.D. (Ay.), and Miss. P. Swathi, SRF (Sanskrit) in preparing the e-book.

I also thankfully acknowledge Mr. K. Durgaram, Mr. K.P. Reddy, Mr. M.V. Rajesh, Mr. S. Raju, Mr. B. Balraj Yadav, Mrs. B. Jyotirmayi, and other technical & administrative staff for their co-operation.

ALA NARAYANA
DIRECTOR, NIIMH