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The textual and cultural history of medicine in South Asia based on newly-discovered manuscript evidence

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Month: August 2021

New project publication

Posted on August 21, 2021August 22, 2021 by Dominik Wujastyk

We are pleased to announce a new open access project publication, “Further Insight into the Role of Dhanvantari, the Physician to the Gods, in the Suśrutasaṃhitā.” http://doi.org/10.20935/al2992

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Notes on the scribe of NAK 5-333

Posted on August 8, 2021November 24, 2021 by Dominik Wujastyk

There is evidence that the scribe of MS Kathmandu NAK 5-333 was copying an exemplar closely connected with MS Kathmandu KL 699, but that he or a later scribe was influenced by readings we now associate with the vulgate transmission (as represented by most twentieth-century printed editions). This blog post will gather instances of this…

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Congratulations to Harshal Bhatt

Posted on August 3, 2021August 3, 2021 by Dominik Wujastyk

We offer our sincere congratulations to our project Research Assitant, Harshal Bhatt, on his appointment as Assistant Professor at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. For the next eleven months he will be teaching Sanskrit language and Siddhānta Kaumudī.

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The Suśruta Project is funded as a four-year Insight Grant by the Canadian Social 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 administered by the University of Alberta.

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