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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 5 - Surgical instruments in Sushruta Samhita

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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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became an ideal platform for the revival and strengthening of Ayurveda.
The proceedings of the meetings of the association had two sections. The
first comprises general speeches and the second is the reading of papers.
This helped significantly to codify the uncodified experience and innovation
of different physicians. The Aryavaidyasamāja was converted into the
Kerala Ayurvedic studies and research society in 1976 with professional
and Governmental representatives."
37 The codification and dissemination of existing knowledge was an
area to which P.S.Varier devoted considerable attention. The following are
his works in Ayurveda: Cikitsasangraha, Asṭangaśārira Bṛhacchārira
(2 Vols) Malayalam rendering of Astängahrdaya, Visūcika, Dhanvantari
(fortnightly in Malayalam) and Aryavaidyacaritram. It was jointly written
with his cousin P.V. Krisna Varier. This was perhaps the first history of
Ayurveda written in an Indian language.
For teaching and learning he set up of a Pathaśala at Calicut on 14
January 1917. It was at the fifteenth annual meeting of Aryavaidyasamaja
as noted earlier. This Pathaśala was shifted to Kottakkal in 1924 and
several hundred professionally qualified physicians came out of it. This
was later affiliated to the university of Calicut as the Vaidyaratnam P.S.
Varier's Ayurveda College and is managed by the Kerala Ayurvedic

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