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
Author: Dominik Wujastyk
Notes on the scribe of NAK 5-333
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…
Congratulations to Harshal Bhatt
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.
Further Insight into the Role of Dhanvantari, the physician to the gods, in the Suśrutasaṃhitā
by Jason Birch and the Suśruta researchers[1]This post was written by Jason Birch and its findings are the result of a discussion by participants at a reading session of the first chapter of the Kalpasthāna, which was led by Dominik Wujastyk … Continue reading One of the most salient differences between the Nepalese version and the…
NAK 5-333 and the so-called conspicuous filling sign
In one of the Nepalese manuscripts on which this project is based, the fifteenth-century Nepalese MS, MS Kathmandu NAK 5-333, there are mysterious characters at a few places. For example, on folio 371v: they are the two similar characters on the fifth line from the top, in this enlargement: and another example Here, the surrounding…
A conspicuous filling sign in proto Bengālī manuscripts
by Birgit Kellner (Austrian Academy of Sciences) This document is kindly contributed by Birgit Kellner, who composed it on 13 November 2017, with input from: Patrick McAllister, Yasutaka Muroya, Markus Pastollnigg, Cristina Pecchia, Serena Saccone, Ernst Steinkellner, and Toshikazu Watanabe. On Dharmottarapradīpa ms fol. 3a (Tucci photographs 1939/Ngor monastery; earlier photographs taken by Sāṅkṛtyāyana probably…
Lecture at the National Institute for Advanced Studies, Bengaluru
The NIAS in Bengaluru is running a lecture series entitled “Sanskrit Language & its Traditions”. As part of this series, Dominik Wujastyk recently contributed a lecture on the History of Ayurveda. In the last part of the lecture, Prof. Wujastyk introduced and discussed the Sushruta Project. To
Published!
It is a pleasure to announce that the paper discussed in an earlier blog post has now been published:
Fragments of a lost manuscript
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has in its collection eight pages of a lost Nepalese palm-leaf manuscript that support extracts of the Suśrutasaṃhitā. The MS is accessioned as MS Los Angeles LACMA M.87.271a-g,[1]MS description at PanditProject. and images are posted on the LACMA website.[2]The overview photograph (view 1) lacks one page, which is…
Who was Bhoja?
The Nepalese manuscripts of the Suśrutasaṃhitā include Bhoja as one of the great, ancient authorities of Ayuveda. The recent post by Jason Birch discusses this point. In this post I would like to give some information about this figure in medical history. The remarks below are based on the research of Meulenbeld . Date First,…