‘Naga’ in Buddhist Scriptures

Buddhist stone scriptures from Shandong, China

This paper introduces the website of the Buddhist Stone Scriptures project of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Based on the TEI guidelines we store textual and visual data together with GIS information in a XML database. To access the inscriptions we provide visual tools like zoomable maps or Flashinterfaces as means of navigation. A special problem is the display of a single inscription, as...

Naga Sore in Jamnagar

sore has appeared among the class of people (not necessarily poor) who, during a heavy rainy season, walked in mud and worked in marshy localities, barefooted. Forty-five inches of rain, mud and marshy conditions?and Naga sore were not previously known to this place. The same thing happened in Benares last summer, when heavy rainfall flooded the area, resulting in mud and marsh so that Naga sor...

"Naga" Sore in Rajputana

(i) In the majority of cases the first lesions were a slight itching or scratch or somle trauma. In some instances the ulcers were due to guinea-worm infection. (ii) The ulcers were always on the leg, ankle, or foot only. (tit) The ulcer was generally circular, its edges undermined, and its margins raised. There was a foul, purulent, tenacious slough. Lymphangitis was noticed only around the ul...

Naga Sores in Gwalior

Naga Sore

Sir,?Recently I read with interest the ' Report on the Occurrence of Naga Sore in Calcutta' by Drs. Panja and Ghosh in your January issue. In my sixteen years' practice, the disease was rarely found here; though it has been always endemic in the hilly parts 30 to 40 miles off from this tea estate. In 1942, some labourers who were sent for road work to the hills near the Burma border returned wi...