[INDOLOGY] Request for Embryology / Anatomy in Ayurveda

[Dan Lusthaus]

Some additional materials:

“Remarks on Some Interrelated Terms in the Ancient Indian Emrbyology.”
Suneson, Carl
Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens / Vienna Journal of South Asian Studies, 1 January 1991, Vol.35, pp.109-121

Embryology & maternity in ayurveda
Dash, Bhagwan, 1934- / 1st ed. / New Delhi : Delhi Diary
1975

Paippalada's Garbhopanishad : a brief treatise of embryo & fetus : text with English translation and commentary
1st ed. / Varanasi : Chaukhambha Orientalia / (Jaikrishnadas Ayurveda series ; no. 143.)
2006

Also, the Caraka Saṃhitā has a section on embryology and related discussions in other sections. For beginners, there are a couple of readable English translations (one by Priyavrat Sharma; and the other by Vaidya Bhagwan Dash ; assisted by Kanchan Gupta). There is a book chapter by Robert Kritzer in Imagining the fetus: the unborn in myth, religion, and culture. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press / (American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series.) /(American Academy of Religion religion and culture series) 2009,

titled:
“Life in the Womb: Conception and Gestation in Buddhist Scripture and Classical Indian Medical Literature”

Summary
The classical Indian medical texts all contain detailed chapters on embryology, and many Indian religious works also discuss the topics of conception and gestation. Although much of the content of the medical and religious accounts is similar, the attitudes revealed are, not surprisingly, quite different; the medical treatises maintain a neutral tone and seek to promote the birth of healthy male babies, while the religious texts dwell on the suffering of both mother and fetus and on the undesirability of rebirth. The Buddhist Garbhāvakrāntisūtra contains an unusual week-by-week account of gestation, which in this chapter is compared to a month-by-month account found in the medical text Carakasaṃhitā .

best,
Dan


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