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Volumes 2a and 2b of Jan Meulenbeld's monumental _A History of Indian

Medical Literature_ have recently been published. This brings the total

to four volumes. An index volume will complete the set. Publication

details can be found at the publisher's website, http://www.forsten.nl/.

 

G. Jan Meulenbeld, _A History of Indian Medical Literature_.

ISBN 90 6980 124 8

 

Vol. Ia, text & Vol. Ib, annotations. 1999. XVII, 699 p. & VI, 774 p.

Cloth fl. 500.-

 

Vol. IIa, text & Vol. IIb, annotations. 2000. VIII, 839 p. & VIII, 1018 p.

Cloth c. fl. 575.-

 

Vol. III. Indexes. (in preparation)

 

 

As with vol.1, the " a " volume is text and the " b " volume consists of notes

to the " a " volume. Vol 2b also includes a colossal bibliography, spanning

pages 783-1018.

 

Vol I covered the b.rhattrayii of Caraka, Susruta and Vagbhata. Vol II is

in some ways of wider interest to general indologists, since it covers

hundreds of works and authors. Many of these are relevant to other

sastras as well as to medicine.

 

Contents:

 

Part 6 Some important authors and works

1 Bower manuscript

2 Bhelasamhita

3 Kasyapasamhita

4 Haritasamhita

5 Madhava

6 Vrnda

7 Cakrapanidatta

 

Part 7 Authors and works from AD 600-1500

1 Authors and works from the period AD 600-1000

2 Authors and works from the period AD 1000-1500

 

Part 8 Authors and works from the 16th to the 20th centuries

1 Sixteenth-century authors and works

2 Seventeenth-century authors and works

3 Eighteenth-century authors and works

4 Nineteenth-century authors and works

5 Twentieth-century authors and works

 

Part 9 Miscellanea

1 Works on pakasastra

2 Works on nadisastra

3 Various authors

4 Various anonymous works

5 Authors and works from Sri Lanka

6 Authors and works on veterinary medicine

 

Part 10 Works on rasasastra and ratnasastra

1 Anandakanda

2 Ayurvedaprakasa

3 Goraksasamhita

4 Kakacandesvarimatatantra to Rasahrdayatantra

5 Rasajalanidhi

6 Rasakamadhenu to Rasamrta

7 Rasapaddhati to Rasaratnadipika

8 Rasaratnakara

9 Rasaratnasamuccaya

10 Rasarnava and Rasarnavakalpa

11 Rasasamketakalika to Rasendracudamani

12 Rasendramangala to Rasopanisad

13 Various works on rasasastra and ratnasastra

 

Appendices

1 Authorities associated with formulae

2 References to medicine in non-medical literature

 

Addenda et corrigenda & Reprints

Addenda et Corrigenda

Reprints

 

Vol. 2b contains notes to the above, and the bibliography.

 

 

I defy any indologist with a pulse not to find materials of great interest

and importance in this publication. Originally requested by Gonda for the

" orange " series, this book rapidly grew beyond the size allocation allowed

for Gonda's series, and has now found separate publication in its own

right in the Groningen Oriental Series. It is a goldmine of information

on all aspects of Indian cultural history, and utterly indispensable to

anyone working on medicine, body studies, alchemy, tantra, cookery, pulse

lore, gemstones, or related subjects.

 

DW