Cikitsā

The publication history of editions and translations of Bhartṛhari's Vākyapadīya and commentaries is complicated.  In Feb 2024, Christop...

From the भोजप्रबन्ध ः बल्लालसेनेन विरचितम्  मनीषिणः सन्ति न ते हितैषिणो हितैषिणः सन्ति न ते मनीषिणः | सुहृच्च विद्वानपि दुर्लभो नृणां | ...

In the Compendium of Suśruta ( Suśrutasaṃhitā ), there is a passage describing rejuvenation through the use of Soma, which is taken over a p...

In a post in February this year I talked about the origin and spread of the famous "lines of energy" image.  I asserted that t...

Mark Singleton Ellen Goldberg I'm delighted by the arrival from the bookshop of my copy of the excellent new book Gurus o...

Adheesh Sathaye mentioned today that the terrible sinking of the Titanic in 1912 was also the occasion of the loss of fourteen Sanskri...

The following was written by me in another context, as part of a conversation.  I'm reproducing it here in case it is of general inter...

In a post on 5 July 2010 , I gave an example of how to use XeLaTeX with various fonts and various ways of inputting text.   Some time later,...

  In my 1987 paper, " A Pious Fraud: The Indian Claims for pre-Jennerian Smallpox Vaccination "  I traced all claims for ...

MS R.15.86 in the library of Trinity College Cambridge is a tract in Sanskrit in the Bengali script about smallpox.  To the right is the...

Monier-Williams' dictionary, p.7  In most of our dictionaries, we find that the Sanskrit word aṅga अङ्ग means "limb, member....