The Origin of the Life of a Human Being: Conception and the Female According to Ancient Indian MedicaL and Sexological Literature

Rahul Peter Das

ISBN 10: 8120819985 / ISBN 13: 9788120819986

Published by Motilal Banarsidass International, 2003

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Origin of the Life of a Human Being: Conception and the Female According to Ancient Indian MedicaL and Sexological Literature
• Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass International
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8120819985
• ISBN 13: 9788120819986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The 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.

About the Author

Rahul Peter Das was educated in India upto Pre-Medical Examination of Calcutta University. He went on to obtain his MA (1981) and Ph.D. (1985) from the University of Hamburg.