The seminal 1989 study “Mantra in Ayurveda” by Kenneth G. Zysk1 describes four areas in which mantras were used in early Ayurveda: the treatment of wounds and swellings/tumours, of poisoning, of mental disorders, and the collection and preparation of certain medicines. Although this article is a highly important contribution to the study of the…[Read more]

The seminal 1989 study “Mantra in Ayurveda” by Kenneth G. Zysk1 describes four areas in which mantras were used in early Ayurveda: the treatment of wounds and swellings/tumours, of poisoning, of mental disorders, and the collection and preparation of certain medicines. Although this article is a highly important contribution to the study of the…[Read more]

This dataset captures all of the references to trees in Richard Power’s The Overstory. Data from the book include page number, section, and sentence the reference appears in. Additional data include, when possible, scientific name, order, family, subfamily, genus, species, and native range.

Like early modern marginalia, tweets are used to engage with text in a plethora of ways: to annotate, explain, comment, cross- reference, call attention, memorise, disparage, satirise, ridicule, praise, translate, summarise, &c.—and to make apparently entirely extraneous, sometimes unintelligible, comments. Twitter is used by scholars in Early M…[Read more]

हिंदी साहित्यकार व चिंतक प्रेमकुमार मणि अपनी उत्कृष्ट कहानियों और वैचारिक लेखों के लिए जाने जाते हैं। उनके पांच कहानी-संकलन, एक उपन्यास और लेखों के कई संकलन प्रकाशित हैं। ‘अकथ कहानी’ शीर्षक से उनकी आत्मकथा शीघ्र प्रकाश्य है। इस बातचीत में प्रेमकुमार मणि के जीवन के कई पहलु पहली बार पाठकों के सामने आए हैं।