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Participants and Papers (a provisional list)
Section 8 - Scientific Literature
Conveners: Dominik Wujastyk, Michio Yano
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Anthony Cerulli
The construction of the patient in Sanskrit medical narratives
Vijaya Jayant Deshpande
Sanskrit roots of medieval Chinese ophthalmic concepts
Abhijit Ghosh
Two opposite images of physicians in India, then and now
Jan E.M. Houben
Rasa and Rasāyana in the Abhinava-cintāmaṇi of Cakrapāṇi-dāsa: two chapters in a late pre-colonial Āyurvedic encyclopedia
Werner Knobl
Divine agents of healing and their patients in Vedic
Kouji Kumagai
Chapter 39 of the Gargasaṃhitā
Takanori Kusuba
Two mathematical texts in the fourteenth century
Philipp Maas
The physician's examination of the patient's constitution according to the Carakasaṃhitā Vimānasthāna
François Patte
Mathematical algorithms in Sanskrit prosody and music treaties
Cristina Pecchia
Treating Diseases by knowing health: Patient and Physicians in Dialogue
Karin Preisendanz
Debates, colloquies and (un)professional competition: Images of physicians and their rivals in early classical Āyurveda - According to the Carakasaṃhitā
K. Ramasubramanian & K. Mahesh
Śyenaciti
S.R. Sarma
Sine quadrant in India - Sanskrit texts and extant specimens
Sandra Smets
Miscarriage in āyurvedic literature
B.V. Subbarayappa
The Nature and Structure of Sanskrit Texts on Mathematical Astronomy: A Perspective
Dagmar Wujastyk
To care or not to care - A physician's compassion and detachment in the Sanskrit medical classics
Dominik Wujastyk
Aṣṭāṅgayoga before Patañjali: The Yoga Treatise in the
Carakasaṃhitā
Michio Yano & Miki Maejima
The astronomical and astrological chapters in the
Atharvaveda-Pariśiṣṭa
K.G. Zysk & T. Yamashita
Jajjaṭa's
Nirantarapadavyākhyā
as an Early Commentary on the
Carakasaṃhitā