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 4 - Sushruta鈥檚 concept of SSurgery
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Sanskrit. Editor of the journal is Dr. V. Nithyanandha Bhat. It was started
in October 1999. The journal is published from the
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Oriental
Research Institute, Kuthapady, Thammanam, Cochin. Language of this
journal is very
simple.
Research articles on the subjects like veda,
grammar, literature, culture and so on are published.
The Malayalam newspapers and periodicals also are a source of
informal education in Sanskrit. Sanskrit has made a deep influence in
Malayalam language and literature. The early writers in Malayalam were
also great scholars in Sanskrit. The periodicals and magazines published
in Malayalam during the nineteenth century and the early decades of
twentieth century contain not only
verse and Sanskrit subject.
Malayalam poem but also Sanskrit
Translation from original Sanskrit to
Malayalam and Malayalam to Sanskrit were also a common feature in the
periodicals like Kavanakaumudi and Atmaposhini etc.
Malayalam Periodicals
Malayalam language and literature has developed in various new
ways under the influence of modern education and western literature. But
it is a fact that Sanskrit still exerts direct and indirect influence in language
literature and culture of Kerala. Because of the propagation of Sanskrit in
the society and the growing enthusiasm of the young generation to
acquire Sanskrit education some Malayalam periodicals and publications
