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Sushruta wrote the Sushruta Samhita as an instruction manual for physicians to treat their patients holistically. Disease, he claimed (following the precepts of Charaka ), was caused by imbalance in the body, and it was the physician's duty to help others maintain balance or to restore it if it had been lost.
The first complete English translation of the Sushruta Samhita was by Kaviraj Kunjalal Bhishagratna, who published it in three volumes between 1907 and 1916 (reprinted 1963, 2006). [150] [note 1] An English translation of both the Sushruta Samhita and Dalhana's commentary was published in three volumes by P. V. Sharma in 1999. [151]
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Dalhana was a medieval commentator on the Sushruta Samhita, an early text on Indian medicine.Dalhana's commentary is known as the Nibandha Samgraha.It compiles the views of a large number of authors and commentators in the text who lived before Dalhana.
Sushruta (IAST: Suśruta), the purported author of the Sanskrit-language Sushruta Samhita (Sushruta's Compendium), has been called the father of surgery [1] Dating the Sushruta Samhita has been a matter of debate, but a partial manuscript has been dated to 878 CE. [2]
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The books include a 1,100-year-old copy of the Sushruta Samhita, [1] an ancient Sanskrit text on medicine listed in UNESCO's international Memory of the World Register. [2] This manuscript is now the subject of an international research project. [3] Beside books, the library also has paintings and other antique artifacts. [2]
In the year 1999, he was awarded a Senior Fellowship by the Homi Bhabha Council [15] to pursue a study of Caraka, which culminated in the publication of the book "The Legacy of Caraka". [16] Later on, as a National Research Professor, he carried out a study of Sushruta and Vagbhata and completed the series of Legacy volumes on the 'Great Three ...