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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: November 2022

Clarifying MS images with Upscaler

Posted on November 23, 2022November 23, 2022 by Dominik Wujastyk

A few days ago I became aware of the program Upscaler. This is, “a free, open source app that leverages the power of artificial intelligence to upscale image quality.” I tried it out on a fuzzy manuscript image from MS Kathmandu NAK 1-1079, and I think the result is extremely promising. You may think that…

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Index of plants

Posted on November 6, 2022November 23, 2022 by Dominik Wujastyk

In our translation of selected chapters of the Suśrutasaṃhitā we are doing a lot of work on the names of Sanskrit plants. We want to present this simply for the reader, using common English plant names. But at the same time we want to make some of the complexity of our referencing and decison-making available…

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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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