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Month: December 2020

An anusvāra and the goals of editing

Posted on December 16, 2020February 18, 2021 by Dominik Wujastyk

We have a reading (SS.sū.1. 9 … upaśamakaraṇārtham) where the final -m is an anusvāra in the earliest witnesses, K and H (in “Orthographic variants”, switch off “filter final anusvāra variants”). We want our edition to represent the earliest known transmission of the work. Scribal usage of daṇḍas is variable and not a determining editorial…

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An unknown early commentary on the Suśrutasaṃhitā

Posted on December 8, 2020January 4, 2021 by Dominik Wujastyk

A new article by Andrey Klebanov has recently appeared in the Festschrift to Prof. K. G. Zysk . Klebanov studies a manuscript in the Government Oriental Manuscript Library in Chennai that is titled simply “A commentary on Suśruta” (Suśrutavyākhyā). The manuscript is MS Chennai GOML R 3422 and has 220 pages. The Chennai MS is…

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An Ancient Pandemic Story

Posted on December 6, 2020March 19, 2021 by Dominik Wujastyk

Earlier this year, Dominik Wujastyk was interviewed for the Bangalore-based Scrolls & Leaves podcast series curated by the science journalists Mary-Rose Abraham and Gayathri Vaidyanathan. He spoke about the description of epidemic disease in the Carakasaṃhitā, the sister treatise of the Suśrutasaṃhitā. Atreya, the renowned teacher of Ayurveda, is walking with his pupils on the…

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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
  • Published!
  • 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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