Month: February 2025

In the standard, printed edition or vulgate text of the Suśrutasaṃhitā, chapter ten of the Sūtrasthāna is dedicated to the topic of becoming a professional physician . The title of the chapter is interesting: “how to enter the roadway,” (विशिखानुप्रवेशनीयमध्यायम्). Commentators and dictionaries interpret the word विशिखा to mean “path, road.” This sense is not…

All the blog posts from the start of this project until today are now available in a single, downloadable PDF file (93 pages, 20.3MB).

Here is a twelve-minute podcast episode about poisons in the Suśrutasaṃhitā. It was generated automatically by notebooklm.google.com. I uploaded the PDF of the Kalpasthāna translation from the Suśruta Project and notebooklm did the rest.