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Month: October 2020

SS.1.1.0-1.1.3

Posted on October 25, 2020November 4, 2020 by Dominik Wujastyk

SS.1.1.0 The opening scribal invocation of KL 699 dedicates the work to Kamalahasta “him with the lotus hands.” This is an honorific title used for the Buddhist Padmapāṇi or Avalokiteśvara. SS.1.1.1 MSS K originally read ādhyāyam, but a scribe corrected it to adhyāyam. N reads the ungrammatical ādhyāyam. Perhaps N was copied from K before…

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New article by Andrey Klebanov in press

Posted on October 3, 2020October 26, 2020 by Dominik Wujastyk

In a new article that is to be published in the eJournal of Indian Medicine in the near fututure, researcher Andrey Klebanov does a deep dive into the Nepalese manuscripts of the Suśrutasaṃhitā. Andrey has kindly shared a draft of his article with me in advance of publication, and I have his permission to report…

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Pandit Project

Posted on October 1, 2020October 8, 2020 by Dominik Wujastyk

We are collabrating with the Pandit Project as a place to keep track in a structured and relational manner of works, authors and especially manuscripts. Here is the Pandit Project entry for the Suśrutasaṃhitā and its commentaries.

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Recent Blog Posts

  • NAK 5-333 and the so-called conspicuous filling sign
  • A conspicuous filling sign in proto Bengālī manuscripts
  • Lecture at the National Institute for Advanced Studies, Bengaluru
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  • Fragments of a lost manuscript

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The Suśruta Project is funded as a four-year Insight Grant by the Canadian Socal Sciences and Humanites Research Council. Grant no. 435-2020-1077.  Dates: 1 April 2020 – 31 March 2024. Applicaton DOI.

Supplementary funding is provided for the project from the Singhmar Chair Endowment Grant (url) administered by the University of Alberta.

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