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2017
This essay disambiguates the yoga texts associated with the name of the ancient Indian sage Yājñavalkya. Two key works are identified and reflections are offered on their manuscript and print histories. A text and translation of the section on yoga postures (āsana) from one of these works is...
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2003
Introduction: Indian medicine, as a systematic and scholarly tradition, begins historically with the appearance of the great medical encyclopedias of Caraka, Su ́sruta and Bhela about two thousand years ago.1 These are the oldest Indian medical texts we have, and also the most influential. Just...
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2008
The attempts by the British and Indian governments to regulate medical practice in India generated an outpouring of numerous, long and scattered documents. In order to be able to grasp the outlines of these processes of attempted control, I offer here a framework for understanding this landslide...
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The Manufacture of Ceramic Building Materials from the Roman Fort at Hauarra (Modern Humayma, Jordan)
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Harvey, Craig A., Reeves, M. Barbara
This short article presents findings from a recent study of the ceramic building materials found in the second to fourth century AD Roman fort at Hauarra (modern Humayma, Jordan). While ubiquitous in the region, this material (i.e. bricks, cylindrical pipes, tubuli, and roof tiles) generally...
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2007
Introduction: The book consists of 87 chapters and an epilogue, arranged in 15 broad topical sections such as "Food and Drink," "Poisoning," "Birth and Development of a Human Being," and "Rules for Healthy Living." There is a substantial introduction of 34 pages. A pleasing feature of the book is...
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2022-01-01
In the summer of 2015, the ‘Ayn Gharandal Archaeological Project excavated a large section of the site’s Late Roman bath. This excavation resulted in the collection of a considerable quantity of ceramic building materials, including bricks, tubuli (specialized rectangular heating pipes), and...