This is the website for the online new edition and manuscript transcriptions created as part of the Sushruta Project as presented through Saktumiva 2. Here, you may view the evolving critical edition of the Suśrutasaṃhitā. By clicking on the manuscript sigla in the apparatus, you may also read the diplomatic transcriptions of the manuscripts individually together with images of the manuscript folia.

The TEI XML transcriptions of all manuscripts and editions are stored at a Github project repository.

The editions and manuscript transcriptions can be viewed at the links below. Links are to the IAST script display, but you can change to Devanagari by using the on-screen menu button अ.

Instructions

“New edition” (NE) means that the project has released an edition with full apparatus. At the present time (2022-2025), the editions of most adhyāyas are provisional: work on proof-reading and edition is still ongoing on a daily basis. These adhyāyas may be considered to be something like “critical collations” or a provisional or first draft edition. You will see the edition in the main window, and the variants from the manuscripts (K, N, H) and the printed edition (A) in the critical apparatus on the right.

• K = MS Kathmandu Kaiser Library 699
• N = MS Kathmandu National Archives 1-1079
• H = MS Kathmandu National Archives 5-333
• NE = New Edition
• A = Printed edition by Y. T. Ācārya, 1938 (“the vulgate edition”)

The following edition files are presented using Saktumiva 2.0, written by Dr Charles Li. Documentation for Saktumiva 2.0. Clicking on a MS siglum in the apparatus takes you to a window showing the diplomatic transcription of that witness at that point in the text, with matching manuscript image.

The following files are complex and will take a moment or two to load and display in your browser.

Sūtrasthānam (also called Ślokasthānam)

• Sūtrasthānam 1-31
• Sūtrasthānam 32-46

Nidānasthānam

• Nidānasthānam

Śārīrasthānam

• Śārīrasthānam.

Cikitsāsthānam

• Cikitsāsthānam 1-20
• Cikitsāsthānam 21-40

Kalpasthānam

• Kalpasthānam

Uttaratantra

• Śālākyatantram: adhyāyas 1-26
• Kumāratantram: adhyāyas 27-37
• Kāyacikitsātantram: adhyāyas 39-57 (with 24)
• Kāyacikitsātantra – Daśaka: adhyāyas 58–66 (with 38)

Citation of this web page

Dominik Wujastyk and Jegb1972. “sushrutaproject1/Sushrutasamhita_Saktumiva2”. Archived at Zenodo, May 8, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20091014.