Document Type : Research Paper
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PhD in Ancient Iranian Culture and Languages, Tehran University
Abstract
One of the oldest medical schools in the world is Ayūrvedic school or Indian traditional medicine whose history goes back to five thousand years ago. This school, which was formed and came to maturity in India, has affected on other medical schools in the world and Iranian medical school has been affected by it. In remnant texts of one of the Eastern Middle Iranian languages, Khotanese, in East Turkestan, also known as Xinjiang of China, effect of this school is clearly obvious. Some of the most important Ayūrvedic texts has been fully or patially translated into Khotanese and a small amount of them are still extant. Among the most important surviving medical texts in Khotanese, which in fact are rendering of original Indian medical texts, may be noted Siddhasāra and Jīvakapusta. The present paper aims at presentation these texts and reviewing their content.
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