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 20 Sep 2016 New Books
New Book:
Caraka Samhita
By P. V. Sharma
Published by Chaukambha Orientalia, Varanasi - 2014
Volume 1

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Charaka Samhita
Written by Tel Asiado

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 18 Sep 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
CHARAKASANHITA - Or the most ancient and authoritative Hindu System of Medicine
By Acharya Charaka
Edited by Pandit Jibananda Vidyasagara
Printed at The Saraswati Press, Calcutta - 1877
In Sanskrit

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 17 Sep 2016 Article/Essay
Essay:
How Ayurveda Pioneered Smallpox Inoculation
By Subhash Kak
Regents professor of electrical and computer engineering at Oklahoma State University and a vedic scholar.
Swarajya - October 31, 2015

An interesting insight on the ayurvedic treatment of smallpoxes which preceded the germ theory... Read More
 14 Sep 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
An English translation of THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA
Based on original Sanskrit text.
Edited and published by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna.

With a full and comprehensive introduction, translation of different readings, notes, comperative views, index, glossary and plates.
Printe... Read More
 13 Sep 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
An English translation of THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA
Based on original Sanskrit text.
Edited and published by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna.
With a full and comprehensive introduction, translation of different readings, notes, comperative views, index, glossary and plates.
Printed... Read More
 12 Sep 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
An English translation of THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA
Based on original Sanskrit text.
Edited and published by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna.
With a full and comprehensive introduction, translation of different readings, notes, comperative views, index, glossary and plates.
Printed... Read More
 11 Sep 2016 Rare BOOKS
Rhinoplasty in ancient India

Featured in The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle
For the year MDCCXCIV
Volume 64
By Sylvanus Urban
Printed by John Nichols, London - 1794

English doctors witnessed this operation in 1793 in India, where the British Army was fighting Tipu Sahib, Sultan ... Read More
 11 Sep 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Surgical Instruments of the Hindus
With a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern European surgeons.
By Girindranath Mukhopadhyaya
Published by Calcutta University, Calcutta - 1913
Volume 2

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 11 Sep 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Surgical Instruments of the Hindus
With a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern European surgeons.
By Girindranath Mukhopadhyaya
Published by Calcutta University, Calcutta - 1913
Volume 1

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 25 Jul 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Popular Hindu Astronomy - Taramandalas and Nakshatras
By Kalimath Mukherji
Published by Nirmal Mukherjea, Calcutta - 1969
First published in 1905

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Painting, signs of the zodiac, opaque water... Read More
 25 Jul 2016 Video
Video Lecture:
Indian Civilization: History of Astronomy in India
Part 2

Raj Vedam of Indian History Awareness & Research (IHAR) highlights the mainstream narrative of Indian history and discusses the history of astronomy in India in this Part 2 of a 3-Part talk, delivered in Houston, Texas, on ... Read More
 4 Jul 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
On Ancient Hindu Astronomy and Chronology
By Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900)
Published in Oxford - 1862

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Hindu calendar for 1871–72, from Rajasthan, India, 1871; in the Asian Division, Libr... Read More
 4 Jun 2016 Article/Essay
Book Extract:
Birth and Early Development of Indian Astronomy
By Subhash Kak
Published January 15, 2001

This paper provides an overview of the birth and early development of Indian astronomy. Taking account of significant new findings from archaeology and literary analysis, it is shown that earl... Read More
 4 Jun 2016 Article/Essay
Article:
Varahamihira: The ancient astrologer, astronomer and mathematician
By Meera Sashithal
Free Press Journal - Oct 03, 2015

His encyclopaedic knowledge and his lively presentation of subjects, as dry as astronomy, made him a celebrated figure.

Even thousands of years before, India had beco... Read More
 4 Jun 2016 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Panchasiddhantika - The astronomical work of Varaha Mihira
Translated to English from the original Sanskrit by George Frederick Thibaut and Mahamahopadhyaya Sudhakara Dvivedi
Published by E. J. Lazarus & Co., Benares - 1882

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 5 Feb 2016 Video
Lecture:
Science in Ancient India: Sanskrit-based Knowledge Systems
By Prof. Michel Danino

A fascinating lecture delivered by Prof. Michel Danino at IIT Roorkee on 16th Oct 2015. Sanskrit club, IIT Roorkee organized the event.

Watch on YouTube:

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 25 Dec 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Studies in the medicine of ancient India - Osteology or the bones of human body
By A.F.Rudolf Hoernle
Printed at The Clarendon Press, Oxford - 1907

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 20 Dec 2015 Article/Essay
Article:
Vedic Cosmology: Integrating God and Physics
By Mauricio Garrido, Ph.D.
Physicist and Hindu Monk
Huffington Post - March 2014

In 2012, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, called for a debate between scientists, philosophers and theologians to find common ground between... Read More
 20 Dec 2015 Article/Essay
Essay:
Indian Physics: Outline of Early History
By Subhash Kak
Regents professor of electrical and computer engineering at Oklahoma State University and a vedic scholar.

Historians of science are generally unaware of the contributions of Indians to physics. The main reason for this is that very ... Read More
 20 Dec 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Positive Sciences Of The Ancient Hindus
By Brajendranath Seal (1864-1938)
Published Longmans, Green & Co., London - 1915

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Brajendra Nath Seal, one of the greatest savants of the nineteenth/... Read More
 30 Sep 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The BRIHAT JATAKA of Varaha Mihira
Translated into English by N.Chidambaram Iyer
Published by Foster Press, Madras - 1885

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Brihat Jataka or Brihat Jatakam or Brihajjatakam (Sanskrit: बृहज्जातकम)... Read More