TY - JOUR AU - Zysk, Kenneth G. PY - 2021/06/16 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Doṣas by the Numbers: Buddhist Contributions to the Origins of the Tridoṣa-theory in Early Indian Medical Literature with Comparisons to Early Greek Theories of the Humours JF - History of Science in South Asia JA - Hist. Sci. South Asia VL - 9 IS - SE - Articles DO - 10.18732/hssa68 UR - https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/hssa/index.php/hssa/article/view/68 SP - 1-29 AB - <p>This paper explores the origins of the Indian medical nosology involving the three <em>doṣas</em> from the perspective of its formulation into three or four distinct types. The essay compares similarities in passages from three different literary sources: Pāļi texts of early Buddhism, early Sanskrit medical literature, and Greek texts from the Hippocratic Corpus and the Anonymus Londiniensis. The study reveals that the <em>tridoṣa</em>-theory, common to āyurvedic literature from an early time was based on the adoption and then adaption of ideas nourished by an intellectual exchange with the Greek-speaking world.</p> ER -