The Suśruta Project

The textual and cultural history of medicine in South Asia based on newly-discovered manuscript evidence

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Research fellows

  • Dr Jason Birch joins the project in late 2020 as a full-time project researcher. Jason has an extensive research and publication record in the study of Sanskrit, Indian manuscripts, Yoga and the history of ayurveda.
  • Dr Andrey Klebanov is expected to join the project in late 2021. Andrey wrote his MA on the Nepalese SS and his doctorate on Sanskrit literary commentaries. He has studied several Sanskrit śāstras, and published on the history of the Suśrutasaṃhitā and its earliest commentaries.

Recent Blog Posts

  • Fragments of a lost manuscript
  • Who was Bhoja?
  • Ḍalhaṇa and the Early ‘Nepalese’ Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā
  • An anusvāra and the goals of editing
  • An unknown early commentary on the Suśrutasaṃhitā

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The Suśruta Project is funded as a four-year Insight Grant by the Canadian Socal Sciences and Humanites Research Council. Grant no. 435-2020-1077.  Dates: 1 April 2020 – 31 March 2024. Applicaton DOI.

Supplementary funding is provided for the project from the Singhmar Chair Endowment Grant administered by the University of Alberta.

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