A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c6.23

v1.c6.23

The present work comprises the entire corpus of Sanskrit medical texts, from the earliest times to the present, thus covering about two millennia. Vedic medicine is not one of its subjects, since no exclusively medical treatises are known belonging to that branch of Indian literature. Those interested in this early stage may turn to the recent study of K.G. Zysk (1985) and the numerous earlier contributions. References to Vedic texts will be found in my annotations, whenever relevant. The same applies to texts forming part of the Buddhist Pali canon.