Food’s Course of Movement in the Intestines (engraving)
Food’s Course of Movement in the Intestines (engraving) Provenance: Printed Book, page 44. Anglicized Bibliographic data The Śārṅgadhara-saṃhitā by Paṇḍit Śārṅgadharāchārya, son of Paṇḍit Dāmodara with the commentary Aḍhamalla’s Dīpikā and Kāśīrāma’s Gūḍhārtha-Dīpikā. Ed. Paṇḍitaparaśurāmaśāstri. Bombay: Pāndurang Jāwajī, Nirṇaya-Sāgar Press, 1931. Sanskrit Title and Author in Roman font śrīmatpaṇḍitadāmodarasūnu-śārṅgadharācāryaviracitā . śārṅgadharasaṃhitā . bhiṣagvarāḍhamallaviracitadīpikā-paṇḍitakāśirāmavaidyaviracita-gūḍhārthadīpikābhyāṃ ṭīkābhyāṃ saṃvalitā […]
Indian anatomical painting
Indian anatomical painting Circa eighteenth century, western India. An old-Gujarati manuscript (circa 1900?). (Wellcome MS Indic d 74. Photo Wellcome Library, London.) Source: Wellcome Collection CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 – Premodern anatomical images in India were influenced by Persian drawings on anatomy, particularly during the Mughal dynasty’s reign in north India from the sixteenth to eighteenth […]
A human anatomical figure
A human anatomical figure Drawing, Nepalese, ca. 1800 (?) Source: Wellcome Library no. 574912iWellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. – Although India has thousands of manuscripts of premodern medical texts, only a handful contain anatomical illustrations. Text was crucially important for transmitting medical teachings. Figure 1 combines text with an illustration of the body and its […]