An English translation of the Sushruta samhita, based on original Sanskrit text

1907·31.5 MB·English

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AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION
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THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA
Vol. II.
NIDANA-STHANA TO KALPA-STHANA.

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THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA
A FULL AND COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION, ADDITIONAL TEXTS,
DIFFERENT READINGS, NOTES, COMPARATIVE VIEWS,
INDEX, GLOSSARY AND PLATES
IN THREE VOLUMES
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KAVIRAJ KUNJALAL BHISHAGRATNA,
M.R.A.S.
Vol. II.
NIDANA-STIIANA, S'ARIRA.STIIANA, CIIIKITSITA-
STIIANA AND KALAl-A-STIIANA.
CALCUTTA
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR,
NO. 10, KASHI GHOSE'S LANE
1911
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Rights Reserved.
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rulNTliD UY M. UHATTACIIARYYA, AT JHE BUAKAT MllllRTRESS,
25, ROY UAUAN STREET, CALCUTTA.
1907
V. 2-
PREFAGE.
It is with mingled feelings of pain and
pleasure that we now place before the public the
Second Volume of our English Translation of
the Susruta Samhita, The arduous task of com-
piling a connected and succint history of any
part whatever, of the ancient Hindu System
—
of Medicine requires greater leisure and more
extensive reading than we can lay any pre-
tension to. Years of patient study and constant
discourse with our sainted preceptor the late
lamented Mahamahopadhyaya Kaviraj Dwaraka
Nath Sen, Kaviratna, that refulgent link of the
golden chain of the Dhanvantaric succession,
have enabled us, however, to grasp the leading
facts, and during the last few years we have
worked continuously, in moments snatched from
the practice of an anxious profession that knows
no respite, to arrange these facts in their present
form. It breaks our heart to record the sad
departure of our venerable Acharyya from this
sublunary sphere to a land "from whose bourne
no traveller e'er returns.'*
It is hardly necessary for us to reply to those
critics who, through their ignorance ofthe original
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Sanskrit works, persist in describing Ayurveda
as an empirical system destitute of Anatomy,
Physiology or Pathology in any scientific sense.
It behoves us, however, in this preface to meet
some of the charges which have been brought
aofainst us.
Exception has been taken to our not includ-
ing in the opening stanza the usual invocation
to the Supreme Self (for a successful completion
of the work) although it has found its way into
almost all the printed editions of the work extant.
Now the stanza referred to finds no place in
the various manuscript copies of the original
work which are in our possession, or on which
we have been able to lay our hands. The work
was first put into print by the late Dr. Madhu-
sudan Gupta and we believe that it was only
in this printed edition that the benedictory
address in question appeared for the first time,
and that it has since crept, by the process of
circulation, into subsequent printed editions.
In this opinion we are supported by the fact,
that in noneofthevarious commentaries and anno-
tations on the Susruta Samhita is any mention
made of the line in question, whereas, had it been
the opening stanza of the original work, it would
certainly have received at least a passing notice
at the hands of the commentators, however easy
or simple it might have been. Further, were it
composed by Susruta himself, it would not have