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The volume deals with ancient texts on medicine authored by scholars in ancient India in order to examine the contribution of ancient Indian medicine. It is concerned with the textual and cultural history of early classical Indian medicine based on new evidence. The scholarly articles in this volume view transmission of texts as a tradition and study the texts and critical commentaries on them as well. The focus is on ancient texts like the Charakasamhita and ...
The chapters in this volume were originally presented in the panels on Scientific Literature at the 12th World Sanskrit Conference in Helsinki, They represent some of the most up-to-date scholarship on the history of early science in India being done today. Several of the studies in this book demonstrate compellingly how the discovery and study of Sanskrit manuscripts is critical for the development of the history of Indian science. The unifying feature of ...
This volume of studies presents the papers given at the workshop of the European Ayurvedic Society which was held in September 1985, in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London. It provided a splendid opportunity for scholars in the field of Indian medical history to meet in one place, and to share the latest research in their respective areas. The studies here collected present an unusually wide variety of approaches to the study of the ...
This volume brings together selections from the Sanskrit classics of the Ayurveda physicians Caraka, Susruta, Kasyapa, Vagabhata and Sarngadhara who lived between the mind-first millennium BC and the fourteenth century AD.The constituents and systems of the physical body; the purifying nature of garlic therapy; the varieties of Soma juice and how they help rejuvenation; the danger to kings from a variety of poisons including that of the Snake maiden; rhinoplasty ...