Sri Lankan Medical Manuscripts – an Untapped Source of Ayurvedic Research
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چکیده
Sri Lankan Medical manuscripts offer a wealth of information on the practice of Ayurveda. The significant of these manuscripts in the various speheres of medical research in presented in this communication.
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