A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Foreign Indologists
This page describes Foreign Indologists which is located on pages 691-705 of the third volume in the book: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism by Swami Harshananda. This book, known as “a concise encyclopaedia of hinduism”, includes a vast amount of topics covering general aspects on Hinduism, but also contains important aspects regarding Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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Bhesajjakkhandhaka (Chapter on Medicine) [by Hin-tak Sik]
Claims made by some scholars that the Ayurvedic tradition dates from several millennia Before Common Era are not accepted by many Indologists. Such claims are reckoned as ideas of “nationalism, religious fundamentalism, a partisan attachment to romantic ideas of India s spiritual heritage, and other such causes,” according to Wujastyk (1993, 759). Scholarly research does not agree with these claims....
Read full contents: (a) Brief History of Ayurveda
Vastu-shastra (1): Canons of Architecture [by D. N. Shukla]
thesis and which form parts of the Series entitled Bharatiya-Vastusastra, which has been instituted by him, will be, as I do believe, welcomed by all Indologist, since the treatment of these subjects is unprecedented, scientific, and scholarly....
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Charaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita [by Nayana Sharma]
As such, the history of Indian science was ordinarily not considered important by the Indologist who gave importance to philosophy, or by the historian of science, who felt it does not have a continuous line of scientific evolution. One of the first writings on the Indian medical history was an article published anonymously in the Oriental Magazine in 1823 by the well known Indologist and surgeon, H. H. Wilson....
Read full contents: Introduction to ancient Indian medicine
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