The reconstruction and evaluation of the history of publication of the Carakasamphita.
Ernst Prets: Debate in the context of Indian Medicine The aims of the project in general are the critical edition and annotated translation of the eighth chapter of the Vimanasthana of the Carakasanhita, one of the most important and oldest treatises of the classical Indian medical tradition (Ayurveda). All available manuscripts and editions as well as the preserved commentaries will be taken into account. On the one hand, the project is intended to provide a philogically sound basis for the better understanding of the tradition of debate in the early period of Indian philosophy. On the toher 