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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To quote Stephen L. Lewis "Radio is the most powerful, inexpensive
and convenient tool of education. In subject areas where no specialized
teachers are available it should be the most heavily relied upon medium.
Unfortunately it is not. It is used for more frequently in under developed
21 nations, although here too T.V is making inroads into its use". Radio is
very much popular in India and it is a very active informal agency in every
field of education like music, language, sports, arts, science etc..
Kerala AIR has also very active participation in the development of
various languages like Malayalam, Hindi, Sanskrit. Every radio studio
station of Kerala is broadcasting Sanskrit programmes each and every
month like a speech or variety programmes. People receive sufficient
education from the speeches on different subjects delivered by great
scholars.
erstwhile
The radio is an important medium of cultural expression. Broadcast
service in Kerala was started as early as March 12, 1943, when the
Travancore government set up a radio station at
Thiruvananthapuram. Though in the initial stage of the station, there was
only one transmission in a week, the programme hours were gradually
st
increased to two hours a day from August 1947. The station was taken
over by the all India radio on 1st April 1950 and with this transmission
hours were increased. There has since been steady expansion of broad
casting facilities in Kerala. Later all India radio opened stations at Calicut,
