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…
Author: Dominik Wujastyk
Ayurveda Practitioners Association, UK
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)
Another project publication
We are pleased to announce a new open access project publication, “Ḍalhaṇa and the Early `Nepalese’ Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā.” See https://doi.org/10.20935/AL3733
New project publication
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
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