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Sushruta and his Samhita - Part 9 - Sushruta graced Bharat at least 5561 BCE!

Sushruta and his Samhita - Part 9 - Sushruta graced Bharat at least 5561 BCE!

In the previous post we demonstrated Hoernlés erroneous dating methodology. In this part we present a more plausible time period based on the following information: Lunar months, corresponding seasons & timing of Sushruta Samhita Sushruta Samhita states the following lunar months for the specific seasons of the year. If we

Sushruta & his Samhita - Part 8 - Hoernlés erroneous dating.

Sushruta & his Samhita - Part 8 - Hoernlés erroneous dating.

Rudolf Hoernlé began translating Bower Manuscript from Sanskrit to English, in late 1800 and completed in early 1900. He made an attempt to determine the timing of Sushruta Samhita and Sage Sushruta himself. He estimated the timing of Sushruta Samhita to be around 500 CE and the timing of Sage

Sushruta and his Samhita - Part 7 — Drumroll…Enter Sushruta!!

Sushruta and his Samhita - Part 7 — Drumroll…Enter Sushruta!!

In the previous chapter, we read how Hoernle persevered for almost two decades and translated the Bower Manuscript. The original name of this scripture is “Naavnitakam” Naavanitakam is a collation of two manuscripts, a larger and a smaller one. The larger manuscript was itself a compilation of six smaller manuscripts.

Sushruta & his Samhita - Part 6 - Hoernlé, the Persistent.

Sushruta & his Samhita - Part 6 - Hoernlé, the Persistent.

In the previous part, we learnt that Bower took the pothi to Simla and upon his return forwarded it to Colonel James Waterhouse, the then President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Since Hamilton Bower discovered it, the pothi came to be known as the Bower Manuscript. Waterhouse exhibited the

Sushruta & his Samhita - Part 5 - Discovery of a Pothi (Bower Manuscript)

Sushruta & his Samhita - Part 5 - Discovery of a Pothi (Bower Manuscript)

Look at the accompanying photo. Don’t they look like twins? Not quite twins, but they were maternal cousins as well as the heads of two of the most powerful empires of the 19th century. On the left is Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, and on the right is King

Sushruta & his Samhita - Part 4 - A Saṃhitā without Sushruta

Sushruta & his Samhita - Part 4 - A Saṃhitā without Sushruta

Our search for Sushruta has so far thrown up several pointer that he was the Father of Surgery, but we still haven’t found the man himself. So how do we find him — why, through the most important marker ofcourse, the Sushruta Samhita. The Samhita that we know today is

Sushruta & his Samhita - Part 3 - The American Connection

Sushruta & his Samhita - Part 3 - The American Connection

Search for an image of Sushruta and below is the image you will find… with a variety of captions, ‘Sushruta — Father of Surgery’, ‘Sushruta performing eye surgery’ etc; A bearded man deeply engrossed in some surgical procedure. He is dressed in a simple white dhoti and two similarly dressed assistants