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The Surveying of Sanskrit Medical Literature
Meulenbeld, Gerrit Jan. 1984. “The Surveying of Sanskrit Medical Literature.” In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Priorities in the Study of Indian Medicine, edited by Gerrit Jan Meulenbeld, 37–56. Groningen: Forsten. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8198002.
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War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue
ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
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Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia
ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
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An Unpublished Commentary of Śrīnātha on the Raghuvaṃśaṭīkā: A Study
There are so many known and unknown commentators who have enriched the Sanskrit literature with the help of their scholarship and intellectual thoughts. The great Popularity and currency of Kālidāsa's Raghuvaṃśa is indicated not only by the existence of ...
Madhumita Ghosh
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This study examines how the logic of localisation functions in Buddhist tantric literature and ritual as a powerful tool to convey knowledge and authoritative lineage via the immediacy of the manifest world. Literature composed in Newar (Nepāl Bhāṣā) and
Amber Moore
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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta
ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
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Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit: How Did It Originate?
Since Edgerton 1953, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit (BHS) has been considered a sanskritization of Prakrit, based on strong linguistic evidence: lexical items are Sanskritic, endings Prakritic.
Hock, Hans Henrich
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Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
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Integrating yoga into anatomy and clinical medicine education: A holistic approach to learning
Abstract Anatomical knowledge is fundamental for success in clinical settings. Unfortunately, anatomy education within professional health programs has experienced a continual decrease in contact hours and curricular content over the previous two decades, leading to deficits and potential gaps in anatomical science knowledge.
Dana Rohde +4 more
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Meyna grisea and M. peltata, two new records from Imphal Valley, Manipur, India, characterised by a capitate stigma with 4–5 divergent, spreading lobes on a globose base, and a prominent peltate stigma, respectively, are described and illustrated here. Photographs, key to the species, along with their coordinates and diagnostic characters in comparison
Pallavi B. Dhal +3 more
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