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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education is mainly two folded Formal and Informal. Formal education is
given through socially recognized and standard Institutions run by the
government or semi government agencies. It has a definite shape,
regulations, time table, teachers and students who follow a well planed
syllabus and curriculum according to the policies of the state formulated
from time to time. Informal education is the other form of education
beyond the control of the government, given by one's personal
experiences and life situations that one gets outside the formal stream of
schools and colleges and which continues for a long period unplanned,
scattered, unregulated and at the mercy of contexts and chance.
Sanskrit education has been introduced in the main stream of
modern education in India and it is being taught in many schools and
colleges. Since Sanskrit is the treasure house of traditional Indian
knowledge and spirituality, the education of Sanskrit is not confined to the
formal schools and colleges. It has still its traditional science that are
useful even in the modern study. Further, the modern age has provided it
new ways of existence and progress.
Mass Media are means of communication that reach a large
number of people providing information, education and entertainment. In
the early times, the teacher was the authoritative source of knowledge for
educating children. He taught the students subjects at a particular place
