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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]
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]
Sushruta (c. 600 BCE) [25] is considered as the "founding father of surgery". His period is usually placed between the period of 1200 BC – 600 BC. [26] One of the earliest known mention of the name is from the Bower Manuscript where Sushruta is listed as one of the ten sages residing in the Himalayas. [27]
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.
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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.
[1]: 645 Both works make frequent reference to the earlier classical works, the Charaka Samhita and the Sushruta Samhita. [1]: 391–593 Vāgbhaṭa is said, in the closing verses of the Ashtāṅgasaṅgraha to have been the son of Simhagupta and pupil of Avalokita. His works mention worship of cattle and Brahmanas and various Hindu gods and ...