The Origin of the Life of a Human Being: Conception and the Female, According to Ancient Indian Medical and Sexological Literature - Hardcover
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This monumental work explores how ancient Indian medical and sexological texts understood the process of human conception, particularly focusing on the female body. It’s part of the Indian Medical Tradition series and represents one of the most exhaustive studies in the field, spanning 728 pages of scholarly analysis.
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Rahul Peter Das is a distinguished German Indologist of mixed Bengali and German heritage, renowned for his deep scholarship in South Asian studies, especially ancient Indian medicine, linguistics, and cultural history. He authored the seminal work The Origin of the Life of a Human Being, a comprehensive study of conception and the female body in ancient Indian medical literature.
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The Origin of the Life of a Human Being
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Origin Of The Life Of A Human Being
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Hardcover. Condition: New. This study, several years in the making, in some respects quite aptly resembles the growth of a child from an embryo. The germ, a presentation of twenty minutes' duration at an international conference held at Hamburg in 1985, grew by constant accretion and revision until it was deemed worthy of being submitted as a Habilitationsschrift (post-doctoral thesis) to the University of Hamburg in 1992. But even after its acceptance in 1993 the process of addition and revision continued uninterruptedly until at last I decided that if I did not set myself a fixed cut-off date after which I would stop feeding it with new information, this baby of mine would keep on growing only in my computer and never make it to the printing press and the light of day. In accordance with this decision, new material chanced upon after the end of 1996 has rarely been included, though prior to publication indexes have been added to the whole, this taking several years due to other pressing duties. Seller Inventory # 146383
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First ed. Large 8vo. xvi, 728pp. 2pp. of the advertisement. Original cloth, spotted on the cover, and edges. Dust jacket (Indian Medical Tradition Vol.6) . Seller Inventory # Y25030157
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Asian Medical Systems. A comparative study.
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Ln. 2, OU. XVII, 419 S., (Indian medical tradition, 3) Wegen der EPR-Bestimmungen liefern wir nicht nach Bulgarien, Dänemark, Estland, Griechenland, Irland, Litauen, Luxemburg, Malta, Kroatien, Polen, Portugal, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Slowenien und Ungarn. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 754. Seller Inventory # 18576
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Text in English. 728 pp. Tear on the dust jacket. Edge wear. Highlights on few of the pages. This study attempts to determine how the ancient Indian medical and sexological texts would answer a non-medical question, but also social and religious relevance, namely: What happens in a woman's body at the time of conception? To this end, numerous relevant texts were exhaustively analysed, along with several secondary sources and relevant data from other traditional medicinal systems. The highly complicated material with data often widely scattered or embedded in problematic contexts, required complex analysis. This also entailed delving deeply into Indian medical and sexological theories in general, and tackling basic principles and concepts, hitherto, not satisfactorily described. In the process. layers of obfuscation deriving from preconceived notions and apologetics and often first to be removed. This study will thus also benefit those looking at aspects of Indian medicine and sexology. The main body of the work has been augmented with several excursuses on special problems of Indian medicine and sexology, with an appendix in juxtaposition with Greek and Yun?ni medicine and select technical terms. Further, exhaustive indices of the text facilitate usage. Seller Inventory # 3952
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Origin of the Life of a Human Being: Conception and the Female According to Ancient Indian Medical and Sexological Literature
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