About eTexts

eTexts gathers digital reading editions of classical Sanskrit medical treatises, each with its commentaries, in IAST transliteration. It is a resource of the Suśruta Project.

• Carakasaṃhitā, with Cakrapāṇidatta’s Āyurvedadīpikā. Source: NIIMH e-Samhita.

• Suśrutasaṃhitā, with Ḍalhaṇa’s Nibandhasaṅgraha. Source: NIIMH e-Samhita.

• Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya, with Aruṇadatta’s Sarvāṅgasundarā and Hemādri’s Āyurvedarasāyana. Source: vedotpatti.in.

• Mādhavanidāna, with the Madhukośa and Ātaṅkadarpaṇa. Source: NIIMH e-Samhita.

• Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā, with Āḍhamalla’s Dīpikā and Kāśīrāma’s Gūḍhārthadīpikā. Source: CCRAS e-book reading room.

Each text has its own About page describing its source edition, scope and known limitations.

Searching

The search page works across the whole collection, a single text, or a single sthāna of a text. The search box at the top of every text page searches that text (or the sthāna you are reading) by default; the scope can be widened on the results page.

Plain-text and regular-expression matching are both available, and diacritics can optionally be ignored (so dosa finds doṣa). The Look in boxes choose what is searched: the mūla, the commentaries, the editorial notes, or any combination. When more than one is ticked, each result is tagged with where it was found. Clicking a result opens the chapter with the matches highlighted, in the same parts of the text only.

Searching runs entirely in your browser: the first search across all texts downloads the full collection, after which further searches are immediate.

Downloads

Every text can be downloaded as a validating TEI P5 XML file, either the root text alone or with its commentaries, from the links on the home page.