Author: 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…

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…

Vitus Angermeier, a project associate, has recently published a blog post on his own project website that explores the Nepalese version’s variant readings on the topic of epidemic disease. It is entitled, “Epidemics in Suśruta or: Why critical editions matter. An example from Ayurveda, Suśrutasaṃhitā.” See the whole post at https://epidemics.univie.ac.at/epidemics-in-susruta/ and the related conference…

Today we completed the transcription of MS Kathmandu KL 699’s text of the Suśrutasaṃhitā! There is more to do – always. We have the Sauśrutanighaṇṭu yet to do, but that is not very long compared to the text of the main work. Work on the transcription of MSS NAK 5-333 and 1-1079 is well-advanced. And…

We are all working very hard on transcribing manuscript data for this project and we’re making great progress. We are using tools like Saktumiva to manipulate that data in ways that produce the intellectual results we seek. But the data itself is probably the most valuable outcome of this project at this point. It is…

This Sushruta Project is focussed on the earliest surviving manuscript of the Suśrutasaṃhitā, MS Kathmandu KL 699, and the two other witnesses that are textually close to it (NAK 5-333 and NAK 1-1079). This project does not have the resources to explore a wider field of manuscript witnesses to the text, but we remain interested…

The Winter 2021 issue of the Newsletter of the APA has just appeared. Thanks to the editor, Andrew Mason, for including a spot on the Suśruta Project (pp. 9-10)

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…