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The Sushruta Samhita ... The partially damaged manuscript consists of 152 folios, written on both sides, with 6 to 8 lines in transitional Gupta script. The ...
Sushruta (Sanskrit: सुश्रुत, lit. 'well heard', IAST: Suśruta [3]) is the listed author of the Sushruta Samhita (Sushruta's Compendium), a treatise considered to be one of the most important surviving ancient treatises [nb 1] on medicine and is considered a foundational text of Ayurveda. [5]
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 Sushruta Samhita (3rd or 4th century CE) specified various methods, including: boiling and heating under the sun. The text also recommends filtering water through sand and coarse gravel. [ 1 ] Images in Egyptian tombs, dating from the 15th to 13th century BCE depict the use of various water treatment devices.
Hindu scriptures are traditionally classified into two parts: śruti, meaning "what has been heard" (originally transmitted orally) and Smriti, meaning "what has been retained or remembered" (originally written, and attributed to individual
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[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 ...
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.