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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Written Monuments of the Orient</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Written Monuments of the Orient</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Written Monuments of the Orient</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2410-0145</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">“Nauka” Publishers: “Vostochnaya Literatura” (Oriental Literature) Publisher</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">35157</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17816/wmo35157</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">‘Like a Virgin’: A Sogdian Recipe for Restoring Virginity and the Sanskrit Background of Sogdian Medicine</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>‘Like a Virgin’: A Sogdian Recipe for Restoring Virginity and the Sanskrit Background of Sogdian Medicine</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Reck</surname><given-names>Christiane</given-names></name><address><country country="DE">Germany</country></address><email>reck@bbaw.de</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="scopus">56964517800</contrib-id><name><surname>Benkato</surname><given-names>Adam</given-names></name><address><country country="US">United States</country></address><email>benkato@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Goettingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru"></institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of California, Emeryville</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru"></institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2018</year></pub-date><volume>4</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru">№2 (2018)</issue-title><fpage>67</fpage><lpage>91</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2020-07-11"><day>11</day><month>07</month><year>2020</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2018, Reck C., Benkato A.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2018</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Reck C., Benkato A.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.eco-vector.com/2410-0145/article/view/35157">https://journals.eco-vector.com/2410-0145/article/view/35157</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Among the fragments of Sogdian medical texts is what seems to be a collection of gynaecological prescriptions, including a recipe for the restoration of virginity. In addition to providing an edition and translation of the text, we attempt to set it within a comparative context including recipes for virginal simulation occuring in Arabic, Chagatai, Greek, and Latin medieval works. Finally, we identify the text as, like much of Sogdian medicine, possible Sanskrit origin, and give an overview of the Sogdian medical fragments so far identified.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Among the fragments of Sogdian medical texts is what seems to be a collection of gynaecological prescriptions, including a recipe for the restoration of virginity. In addition to providing an edition and translation of the text, we attempt to set it within a comparative context including recipes for virginal simulation occuring in Arabic, Chagatai, Greek, and Latin medieval works. Finally, we identify the text as, like much of Sogdian medicine, possible Sanskrit origin, and give an overview of the Sogdian medical fragments so far identified.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Sogdian</kwd><kwd>medical texts</kwd><kwd>Turfan</kwd><kwd>women’s medicine</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>BENKATO, Adam: forthcoming: “A Manichaean remedy for headaches”</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>BENVENISTE, Émile 1940: Textes sogdiens. Paris</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B3"><label>3.</label><mixed-citation>GHARIB, Badri 1995: Sogdian Dictionary. Tehran</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B4"><label>4.</label><mixed-citation>GREEN, Monica 2001: The Trotula. A Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine. Philadelphia</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B5"><label>5.</label><mixed-citation>HENNING, Walter B. 1946: The Sogdian texts of Paris. 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