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Mathematics and medicine in Sanskrit / edited by Dominik Wujastyk.

Title
Mathematics and medicine in Sanskrit / edited by Dominik Wujastyk.
Author
World Sanskrit Conference (12th : 2003 : Helsinki, Finland)
Publication
Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2009.

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Wujastyk, D.
Description
viii, 208 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
Papers presented at the 12th World Sanskrit Conference, held in Helsinki 13-18 July 2003.
Series Statement
  • Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference ; v. 7
  • World Sanskrit Conference (12th : 2003 : Helsinki, Finland). Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference ; v.7.
Subject
  • Ayurveda
  • Didactisch proza (teksten)
  • Geneeskunde
  • Helsinki <2003>
  • Hindu mathematics > Congresses
  • India
  • Indien
  • Mathematics
  • Mathematics, Ancient > Congresses
  • Mathematik
  • Medicine, Ayurvedic
  • Medicine, Ayurvedic > Congresses
  • Sanskriet
  • Wiskunde
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • Congress
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and iindex.
Language (note)
  • Includes passages in Sanskrit.
Contents
Introduction / Dominik Wujastyk -- Sanskrit and science : a new area of study / K.V. Sarma -- Solution of second degree indeterminate equations in Sanskrit texts / A.K. Bag -- Chronological influences from a comparision between commentaries on different Śulbasūtras / Jean Michel Delire -- Bhāskara I's geometrical diagrams in the Āryabhaṭīyabhāṣya -- Some neglected aspects of Ayurveda or the illusion of a consistent theory / G. Jan Meulenbeld -- Saṃskāras in Vāgbhaṭa's Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā : garbhādhāna, ṛtusaṃgamana, puṃsavana / Dagmar Benner -- Contrasting examples of Ayurvedic creativity around 1700 / Dominik Wujastyk -- Terminology of spirit illness : an empirical study of a living healing tradition / Antti Pakaslahti -- Some notes on the Bheḍa(la)saṃhitā / Tsutomu Yamashita.
ISBN
  • 9788120832466
  • 8120832469
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library