vaidya

...To become a doctor one had to undergo a certain period of education and be approved by the king. Doctors were generally called vaidya and were respected as representatives of the intellectual class, but because of this there were many quack doctors, and classical medical books explain how to distinguish between quacks and real doctors. During the British colonial period, modern Western medicine was introduced and the status of traditional medicine was diminished, but after independence the government adopted a policy of reviving traditional medicine, and many Ayurvedic universities and hospitals were established, allowing traditional doctors to practice with the same qualifications as Western doctors.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…医者になるためには一定期間教育を受け，国王によって認可されなければならなかった。一般に医者は〈バイドヤvaidya〉と呼ばれ知識人の代表として尊敬されていたが，それだけにえせ医者も多く，古典医書にはえせ医者とほんとうの医者の見分け方が述べられている。　イギリス統治時代に近代西欧医学が導入され，伝統医の地位はおとしめられたが，独立以後政府は伝統医学の復興政策をとり，多くのアーユル･ベーダ大学や病院ができ，伝統医も西洋医と同じ資格で開業できるようになった。…

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