Assertion: The typology of personality based on vata, pitta, and kapha in Ayurveda is based on the concept of trigunas.
Reasoning: According to Ayurveda, vata, pitta, and kapha are three humoural elements that represent different types of temperaments or basic nature of individuals.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
In India, Charak Samhita, a famous treatise on Ayurveda, classifies people into the categories of vata, pitta and kapha (on the basis of three humoural elements called tridosha) and each refers to a type of temperament, called prakriti (basic nature) of a person.
There is anothoer typology of personality based on the trigunas, i.e. sattva, rajas, and tamas.
a. Sattva guna includes attributes like cleanliness, truthfulness, dutifulness, detachment, discipline, etc.
b. Rajas guna includes intensive activity, desire for sense gratification, dissatisfaction, envy for others, and a materialistic mentality, etc.
c. Tamas guna characterises anger, arrogance, depression, laziness, feeling of helplessness, etc.
All the three gunas are present in each and every person in different degrees. The dominance of one guna may lead to a particular type of behaviour.