A PERSPECTIVE FOR SUSRUTA SAMHITA

A suggestion was made recently that the account of dissection of the cadaver present in Susruta Samhita is probably not in the true tradition of Ayurveda and the art of dissection itself is presumably of the Greek origin. By a closer scrutiny of the Text and its internal evidence, it has been shown...

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Autor principal: Murthy, K. H. Krishna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 1984
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3331553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22557398
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description A suggestion was made recently that the account of dissection of the cadaver present in Susruta Samhita is probably not in the true tradition of Ayurveda and the art of dissection itself is presumably of the Greek origin. By a closer scrutiny of the Text and its internal evidence, it has been shown here that this contention is likely to be not only incorrect but also unwarranted. In this connection a rather new perspective, which may probably be better than usual to evaluate the Samita itself is posited.
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spelling pubmed-33315532012-04-27 A PERSPECTIVE FOR SUSRUTA SAMHITA Murthy, K. H. Krishna Anc Sci Life Original Article A suggestion was made recently that the account of dissection of the cadaver present in Susruta Samhita is probably not in the true tradition of Ayurveda and the art of dissection itself is presumably of the Greek origin. By a closer scrutiny of the Text and its internal evidence, it has been shown here that this contention is likely to be not only incorrect but also unwarranted. In this connection a rather new perspective, which may probably be better than usual to evaluate the Samita itself is posited. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 1984 /pmc/articles/PMC3331553/ /pubmed/22557398 Text en Copyright: © Ancient Science of Life http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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