The classical compilations of Āyurveda repeatedly distinguish between two types of remedy: those relying on logical principles (yukti) and those relying on force majeure (daiva). The first category re...

Warfare, Droughts, Brahminicides: Crisis and Kingship in South Asian Antiquity was published in The Concept of Crisis in Antiquity on page 299.

Date and venue The 16th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium will take place on 24 and 25 September 2026 at L’Orientale University of Naples, Italy. Physical location: Palazzo Corigli…

IIGRS 15 Programme and Abstracts. You can find the programmes of former symposia in the historical archive.

In Ayurveda, the mainstream medical system of pre-modern South Asia, the phenomenon of collective suffering requires a special explanation, since it is not in accordance with the general understanding...

In Ayurveda, the mainstream medical system of pre-modern South Asia, the phenomenon of collective suffering requires a special explanation, since it is not in accordance with the general understanding...

The 15th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium will take place on 30 and 31 October 2025 at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Submission of papers: If you wish to present a paper, pl…

Workshop at the Department South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, November 8–9, 2024, organised in the framework of the FWF funded project on "Epidemics and Crisis Management...

The defendants, including Elsevier and Wiley, have done "tremendous damage to science and the public interest,” the complaint alleged.

Usually theories on disease causation and treatment in early Āyurveda focus on the individual patient, his diet, and his lifestyle. There are however certain contexts, in which the locality or origin ...

A passage on suffering (duḥkha) in the first section of the Suśruta­saṃhitā (SS), one of the foundational compendia of Āyurveda, elaborates on three kinds of suffering. The very same scheme also occur...

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Webinar series: Trans-local perspectives in Iranian worlds