Sushruta Samhita Uttara Tantra Chapter 66 (Dosha Bheda Vikalpa): The Last Question, and How the Samhita Ends

The short version Sushruta Samhita, Uttara Tantra, Chapter 66 is called Dosha Bheda Vikalpa Adhyaya — the chapter on the...

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Tantra Yukti in the Sushruta Samhita: 32 Devices for Reading a Classical Text, and the 33rd That Slipped In

The short version The Sushruta Samhita does not end with surgery. It ends with a reading lesson. Its sixty-fifth chapter...

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Shokaja Atisara: Where the Sushruta Samhita Puts Grief

The short version Chapter 40 of the Uttara Tantra of the Sushruta Samhita is the chapter on Atisara. It opens...

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Graha Chikitsa in the Sushruta Samhita: One Protocol, Repeated Four Times (Uttara Tantra 28-31)

In short Chapters 28 to 31 of the Sushruta Samhita's Uttara Tantra give the therapeutics — the Pratishedha — for...

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Bala Graha in the Sushruta Samhita: the Nine Grahas of Infancy in Uttara Tantra 27 - Skanda, Putana, Revati and Naigamesha

The short version Chapter 27 of the Uttara Tantra of the Sushruta Samhita names nine Bala Grahas — Skanda, Skandapasmara,...

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Shiro Roga in the Sushruta Samhita: the Eleven Diseases of the Head - Ardhavabhedaka, Suryavarta, Anantavata and Shankhaka (Uttara Tantra 25-26)

Quick Summary The twenty-fifth chapter of the Sushruta Samhita’s Uttara Tantra — the Shiro-roga Vijnaniya — counts eleven diseases of...

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