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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Gandhiji etc are included. This types of works are useful for Sanskrit
learners who have acquired some basic knowledge in Sanskrit.
Dictionaries
Lexicography is one of the important field of study in Sanskrit. The
origin of lexicon can be traced to the Vedānga Niruktam. The nirukta is
separated from the Kosa's or dictionaries by an apparently wide gulf, that
has partly been filled with the development of various branches of the
science of grammar. To the grammatical literature belong the Dhātupātha,
Uṇādisūtra Ganapathā and Lingānuśāsana. 18
A compilation of the Nighaṇṭu is the earliest attempt on Sanskrit
lexicography. The words in the Nighaṇṭu are arranged according to
specific groups and this arrangement is generally found in later lexicons.
Nighaṇṭu can be regarded as the starting point in the creation of later
Sanskrit works in lexicography. Yāska's Nirukta is a running commentary
on the Nighaṇṭu that gives the etymology of word occurring in the text and
tries to derive all words from original root.
Mainly two types of Kośas are available in Sanskrit. They are
synonymous (subject matter) are testing of words with the same meaning
and homonymous are with the different meaning. Important synonymous
dictionaries have a homonymous section also. Neither of them follows
