SAMHiTA-Bharat ki Soch Public Lecture Series On Tracing the Footprints of Indian Scientific Heritage

SAMHiTA-Bharat ki Soch Public Lecture Series 
On Tracing the Footprints of Indian Scientific Heritage

Speaker: Dr Vijaya Jayant Deshpande, Independent Researcher, scholar of history of science, technology and medicine, with a focus on Sino-Indian scientific contacts through Buddhism. A Life Member of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) Pune.

The lecture will give an overview of scholarship on early scientific development (through archaeology, the study of Adivasi practices, and literary sources), focusing on the chemical-metallurgical insights to be found in the Rasopanishad, a medieval work of alchemy in Sanskrit. The speaker will demonstrate how texts help to trace the transmission of scientific ideas and techniques, by tracing the relationship between Chinese ophthalmic works attributed to Nagarjuna and Ayurvedic texts like Susrutasamhita and Ashtanghridaya.

Inaugural lecture of the series on “Health, Wellness and Nutrition”, organised by IIC- International Research Division and Bharat ki Soch Foundation