Apart from preserving an early, unpublished version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā , manuscript KL-699 may be one of the oldest dated Nepalese manuscripts to have survived . It is written in the so-called transitional Gupta script and comprises of at least four codicological units . This means that KL-699 is rich material for the study of palaeography, and…
Author: Jason Birch
Ḍalhaṇa and the Early ‘Nepalese’ Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā
Based on a collation of several Nepalese manuscripts of the Suśrutasaṃhitā, a provisional critical edition of the first chapter will be important evidence for future scholarly appraisals of this medical classic. The so-called Nepalese version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā is older and more rudimentary than the rendering of the text in modern printed editions, such as…