At Patanjali Bharatiya Ayurvigyan Evam Anusandhan Sansthan, the Department of Samhita and Siddhanta was established in the year 2009 with the opening of the college of Ayurveda and the postgraduate studies(M.D. Ayu) in the discipline started in the year 2016. Since the inception, the department is working hard to bring quality Ayurveda education and practice in Undergraduate and Postgraduate students of the institute.
Vedas and Samhitas (scholarly books and treatises) are the basic seats of Indic wisdom. These compendia are huge collection of concise but detailed and useful information about the ontology, health and wellness etc. The department of Ayurved Samhita and Siddhanta bears the responsibility to act as a basic bench and an intelligible platform of fundamental principles and philosophies of life sciences dispersed in ancient literature. It actually may act as a think tank of the theories and visions for physical and mental health encrypted in ancient literature of Ayurveda and other oriental streams of health sciences.
Under the aegis of his holiness Swami Ramdev Ji Maharaj and Shraddheya Acharya Balkrishna Ji Maharaj, for the last 15 years, the department is involved in academic activities and under graduate (B.A.M.S.) teachings from the first profession to the final profession. Three tier approach i.e. reading (Patha), understanding (Avabodha) and practice (Anushthana) is being made at the level of UG and PG teaching in the department. This enriches the knowledge and skill of the students to learn the science of Ayurveda in an organized way and enabling them to comprehend the ancient principles in the light of modern science and apply them in their clinical practice for the benefit of society.
Objectives
- To make students apt at Sanskrit language to study and understand the Ayurved Samhitas written in Sanskrit.
- To educate UG and PG students to understand the fundamental concepts of Ayurveda through Samhita based teaching and learning.
- To develop a manuscriptology unit in the department to study and explore the ancient unseen concepts and approaches described therein.
- To prune the young minds (students) into a good human being, quality teachers and competent physicians to carry Ayurveda over the world.
Along with all the activities related to undergraduate (B.A.M.S.) teaching and training activities, department is involved in various extra ordinary efforts as under-
- Daily, in the morning , postgraduate students do Shloka Pathana by reciting verses from Ayurved Samhitas. As a routine, post graduate students of the department write a Shloka with meaning on a white board, under the head ‘SAMHITA- NAVANEET’and it is displayed at the common entrance of the college for all.
- Department is arranging educational tours. This year (2024), M.D.(Ayu.) students of the department, visited National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM), New Delhi.
- Department is having well stocked library and charts and models for the students to study and refer.
- Departmental seminars, micro teaching classes and group discussions are conducted on regular basis.
- Mentoring of the students is done by the experienced teachers of the department.
| Sr. No | Name | Designation |
| 1 | Dr. S C Joshi | Professor and HOD |
| 2 | Dr. Vibhooti | Professor B.A.M.S, MD (Ayu) |
| 3 | Dr. Rajeev Kumar | Professor B.A.M.S, MD (Ayu) |
| 4 | Dr. Deepa L. S. | Associate Professor B.A.M.S, MD (Ayu) |
| 5 | Dr. Devesh Panwar | Assistant Professor B.A.M.S, MD (Ayu) |
| 6 | Dr. Diksha Dhiman | Assistant Professor B.A.M.S, MD (Ayu) |