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On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose: The Nepalese Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā (2023)
Book
Wujastyk, D., Birch, J., Klebanov, A., Parameswaran, M. K., Rimal, M., Chakraborty, D., Bhatt, H., Lele, V., & Mehta, P. (2023). On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose: The Nepalese Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā. Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1203

A thousand-year-old Ayurvedic manuscript containing the Compendium of Suśruta was announced to the scholarly world in 2007. The Nepalese manuscript, since adopted by UNESCO as part of the Memory of the World, reveals the state of classical Indian med... Read More about On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose: The Nepalese Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā.

On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose: The Nepalese Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā (2023)
Book
Wujastyk, D., Birch, J., Klebanov, A., Parameswaran, M. K., Rimal, M., Chakraborty, D., Bhatt, H., Lele, V., & Mehta, P. (2023). On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose: The Nepalese Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā. Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1203

A thousand-year-old Ayurvedic manuscript containing the Compendium of Suśruta was announced to the scholarly world in 2007. The Nepalese manuscript, since adopted by UNESCO as part of the Memory of the World, reveals the state of classical Indian med... Read More about On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose: The Nepalese Version of the Suśrutasaṃhitā.

Premodern Yogāsanas and Modern Postural Practice: Distinct Regional Collections of Āsanas on the Eve of Colonialism (2023)
Journal Article
Birch, J. E., & Hargreaves, J. (2023). Premodern Yogāsanas and Modern Postural Practice: Distinct Regional Collections of Āsanas on the Eve of Colonialism. Journal of yoga studies, 4, 31-82. https://doi.org/10.34000/JoYS.2023.V4.01

In this chapter, we formulate a corpus of premodern praxis manuals on yoga that were composed in the 18th and 19th century in rudimentary Sanskrit and vernacular languages, which were likely documenting collections of yoga postures (āsana) current a... Read More about Premodern Yogāsanas and Modern Postural Practice: Distinct Regional Collections of Āsanas on the Eve of Colonialism.