Author: Dominik Wujastyk
Graph of frequency / time of dated SS manuscripts
Based on the dated manuscripts of the Suśrutasaṃhitā listed in PanditProject.
Intertextuality and the Methods of Diagnosis
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 Blog Posts in One PDF
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).
Podcast on the Kalpasthāna
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.
Andrew Mason interviews Dominik Wujastyk about the Suśruta Project
In December 2024, I was interviewed by Andrew Mason, the researcher and publisher on South Asian alchemy and medicine and director of the Netera publishing project. Here’s the interview:
Candraṭa’s editing of the Suśrutasaṃhitā
Candraṭa was a Sanskrit author on medical topics who lived in the period 900-1050 CE . He is perhaps best known for writing a commentary on his father Tīsaṭa’s treatise, Cikitsākalikā. But Candraṭa wrote several other works, and of most relevance to our project is his “Editorial Corrections to the Suśruta text” (Suśrutapāṭhaśuddhi). Candraṭa himself…
Scribal uncertainty about Dhanvantari
We have written before about the role of Dhanvantari in the Ayurvedic medical tradition transmitted in the Suśrutasaṃhitā (; ) Through the kind offices of Punjab University Library (PUL) and Mr Tancredi Padova (Universität Zürich), who was visiting Lahore, I have been able to examine some extracts of Suśrutasaṃhitā manuscripts held in the Woolner Collection…
Book publication
We are delighted to announce the publication of this project’s first book: Wujastyk, Dominik, Jason Birch, Andrey Klebanov, Madhu K. Parameswaran, Madhusudan Rimal, Deepro Chakraborty, Harshal Bhatt, Vandana Lele, and Paras Mehta. 2023. On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose. The Nepalese Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā. Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1203. The…
Progress report for June 2023
I am pleased to report that a major project milestone has been reached. Last week we completed the transcription of all three Nepalese manuscripts of the Suśrutasaṃhitā that form the basis of our project. All files have been uploaded to GitHub, and a “version release” of the files has been issued, version 3.0. This has…