What's Inside? The Ayurvedic Components of the Body
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What’s Inside?The Ayurvedic Components of the Body
Dr Dominik Wujastyk
Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist StudiesUniversity of Vienna
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Hoernle I
Augustus Frederic Rudolf Hoernlé, 1841–1918.A. F. Rudolf Hoernle (1907). Studies in the Medicine ofAncient India: Osteology or the Bones of the Human Body.Oxford: Clarendon Press
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Hoernle II
Figure: Hoernle, 1907, p. 112.
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Hoernle III
Figure: Medical list (Hoernle, 1907, ¶7).
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Hoernle IV
Figure: Non-medical list (Hoernle, 1907, ¶17).
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Hoernle V
Figure: Suśruta’s list (Hoernle, 1907, ¶27).Dr Dominik Wujastyk University of Vienna 2014 6 / 18
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Mesopotamian numbers I
In the Śatapathabrāhmaṇa, Prajāpati seeks to regainpower over his creation by arranging 720 bricks of thesacrificial fire-altar in different ways. “He divided his bodyinto two: there were 360 bricks in the one, and as many inthe other; …He made himself 24 bodies of 30 bricks each,… therefore the year consists of 24 half-months.”“The sexagesimal multiple 720 is also familiar in OldBabylonian texts, being the standard metrological unitcalled the ‘brick-sar’ ”
— Plofker (2009, 15 f.)
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The ayurvedic intererior
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P. S. Varier I
Figure: P. S. Varier (1869-1944)
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P. S. Varier II
Figure: Varier, 1942, 1969, p. 6.
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P. S. Varier III
Figure: Varier, 1942, 1969, p. 152.Dr Dominik Wujastyk University of Vienna 2014 11 / 18
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Iconic use of image = cognitive surrender
Figure: Śāstrı,̄ 1931.
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Model Papers = cognitive surrender I
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Model Papers = cognitive surrender II
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References I
Hoernle, A. F. Rudolf (1907). Studies in the Medicine of AncientIndia: Osteology or the Bones of the Human Body. Oxford:Clarendon Press.
Śāstrı,̄ Paraśurāma, ed. (1931).DāmodarasūnuŚārṅgadharācāryaviracitāŚārṅgadharasaṃhitā. BhiṣagvarĀḍhamallaviracitadīpikā-Kāśīrāmavaidyaviracitagūḍhārthadīpikābhyāṃ, ṭīkābhyāṃ,saṃvalitā. 2nd ed. Muṃbai: Nirṇayasāgara Press.
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References II
Varier, P. S. (1942, 1969). Bṛhacchārīram,navīnamatānusāreṇa prācīnaśarīraśāstratattvānāṃvivaraṇaṃ, teṣu sandigdhatayā ’sampūrṇatayā vāsthitānāṃ tattvānām ādhunikaśāstrā ’virodhī vistāraścāsmin suṣṭhu kṛtaḥ, = An up-to-date and detailed work onhuman anatomy and physiology in Sanskrit combining theancient and modern knowledge on the subject with variousillustrations and coloured plates. Kottakal: P. MadhavaWarrier.
Plofker, Kim (2009). Mathematics in India. Princeton andOxford: Princeton University Press.
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The medical body: Śārṅgadhara’s description I
Conception and fœtal growthThe seven receptacles (āśaya);The seven body tissues (dhātu);The seven impurities of the body tissues (dhātumala);The seven subsidiary body tissues (upadhātu);The seven membranes (tvac);The humours (doṣa);The nine-hundred sinews (snāyu);The 210 ligaments (sandhi);The 300 bones (asthi);The 107 sensitive points (marman);The 700 ducts (sirā);The twenty-four pipes (dhamanī);Dr Dominik Wujastyk University of Vienna 2014 17 / 18
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The medical body: Śārṅgadhara’s description II
The 500 muscles (māṃsapeśī);The twenty extra ones for women;The sixteen tendons (kaṇḍarā);The ten orifices of the male body;The thirteen orifices of the female body.
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