Suśruta Project at Saktumiva
This is the website for the online edition and manuscript transcriptions created as part of the Sushruta Project. Here, you may view the evolving critical editions of several parts of the Suśrutasaṃhitā. You can also read the various manuscript transcriptions individually, or collate and compare them in the manner of a critical edition.
The TEI XML transcriptions of manuscripts and editions are stored at a Github project repository.
The editions and manuscript transcriptions can be viewed at the links below. Links are to the IAST script display, but you can change to Devanagari or several other scripts using the on-screen menu button अ.
The tables give links to adhyāyas that have received editorial attention (not always final).
Instructions
“New edition” means that the project has released an edition with full apparatus. At the present time (2022-2023), the editions of most adhyāyas is provisional: work on proof-reading and edition is still ongoing on a daily basis. These adhyāyas may be considered to be something like “critical collations” or a provisional or first draft edition. You will see the edition in the main window, and the variants from the manuscripts (K, N, H) and the printed edition (A) in the critical apparatus on the right.
Chapters marked with a puṣpikā ❈ have received critical editorial attention and may be considered completed critical editions.
The “Instructions for Readers” documentation explains how to read the above editions, how to select particular manuscripts for examination, and how to generate the critical apparatus. The most common option is to press “other witnesses” in the left menu bar, then “select all”, then “generate apparatus.” Click the अ character in the right-hand menu to select your preferred display script.
1 Sūtrasthāna adhyāyas 1-31, 32-46 (new edition)
Witness K is not available from SS.1.33 onwards.
2 Nidānasthāna (new edition)
Witness K is not available for this adhyāya.
3 Śārīrasthāna (new edition)
Witness K is not available for this adhyāya.
4 Cikitsāsthāna (new edition)
Witness K is not available for adhyāyas 1-18, 27 and 28.
5 Kalpasthāna (new edition)
6 Uttaratantra adhyāyas 1-30, 31-66 (new edition)
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | ❈17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | ❈38 | 39 | 40 |
| 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 |
| 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 |
| 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | ❈65 | 66 | colophon |