Essay name: Surgery in ancient India (Study)
Author:
P. P. Prathapan
Affiliation: Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit / Department of Sanskrit Sahitya
This essay studies Surgery in ancient India based on Sanskrit sources such as the Sushruta Samhita. These references indicate evidence of theoretical and practical knowledge of hygiene rivaling contemporary routine practices. Further topics include Ayurveda, a historical study of surgery, surgical schools and instruments used in ancient India.
Chapter 1 - Ayurveda and Sanskrit literature
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three four and five. The combination of relevant methodologies may be
found in this thesis in presenting the informal field of Sanskrit education in
Kerala.
Tools used for the study
Questionnaire and interviews are the major tools used for the study.
These are suitable for these type of research that requires social
interaction. Questionnaires has the unique advantage of collecting data
both qualitative and quantitative information. It may serve as a most
appropriate and useful data gathering device in the research project. It is
used when factual information is desired. Therefore the investigator used
questionnaire to gather data.
Questionnaire
A properly constructed and administrated questionnaire can serve
as a most appropriate and useful data gathering device in research
project. Questionnaire is a form prepared and distributed to secure
response to certain questions are factual intended to obtain information
about conditions or practices of which the respondent is presumed to
have knowledge. It was to be used increasingly to enquire in the opinion
and attitudes of a group.
