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’s concept of SSurgery
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Samskṛta Malayalabhāṣ� Sahāyi is written by Sahitya Siromani
K.K. Balakrishnapanikkar, Kadangod and published by H & C publishing.
house Thrissur. This book is intended to make easy the study of Sanskrit
language and declares that those who know to read and write Malayalam
15 can study Sanskrit without the assistance of teachers. The lessons of
this book are very simple. They start with the introduction of alphabets,
words and its meanings and gradually entertains some grammar. The
content of the book is comparatively lighter than the former works
mentioned above. The book gives Sanskrit words and sentences in
Devanagari script and immediately provides Malayalam transliteration and
translation. So the readers can easily learn Sanskrit words and sentences
with the help of Malayalam.
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In 1959 E.P Bharata Pisharodi started the series known as
'Kamadhenu' which contains about forty Sanskrit lessons. The lessons
progress from simple to complicated language. English and Sanskrit are
also used. The purpose of this series is the strengthening of the popularity
of Sanskrit language and the acquisition of Indian cultural heritage.
The time schedule is one day for each lesson. First 12 days give
introduction lesson in history of Sanskrit, and literature and to the study of
Kāvyas & Purāṇas. 13 to 30 days (lessons) teach the Raghuvamsa 4th
