Oddisi Research Lab Release: Human Anatomy In Ancient Stone Sculptures And Epigraphy As Evidence Of Human Health Care Science In Ancient India

Skeletal picture & role of muscles are indicated clearly in temple stone art of 7th AD. Name, nativity parentage of a surgeon, a hospital, its sovereign, possible manager or administrator are indicated in rock inscription dated to 9tth AD. This paper subtly & latently seeks to bring out the hitherto hidden chapter of material evidence of ancient Indian school of medicine in extant cognate group of man made stone art archaeology, presented on a background of acknowledged secondary evidence of such ancient school and contrasted vis-a-vis modern science based knowledge. It also throws up the possibility of knowledge in anatomical dissection and a possible practice in Osteology & Invasive medicine 1500 yrs ago and the possibility of regional variation or separate schools within the then geography of Indian subcontinent