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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 Sushruta Samhita (Sanskrit: सुश्रुतसंहिता, lit. 'Suśruta's Compendium', IAST: Suśrutasaṃhitā) is an ancient Sanskrit text on ...
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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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.
English: This is Plate 2 of four plates published in the 1907 book, An English Translation of the Sushruta Samhita in Three Volumes, (Volume 1), on page LXIX of Introduction section. It represents the following yantra / surgical instruments: 15 Shamipatra yantra, 16 Shalaka 17 Sharapunka, 18 Sinhamukha, 19 Shvanamukh, 20 Shanku, 21 Snuhi, 22 ...
The Indian surgeon Sushruta wrote the Sushruta Samhita in Sanskrit in approximately the sixth century BC, [16] which describes 76 ocular diseases (of these, 51 surgical) as well as several ophthalmological surgical instruments and techniques. [17] [18] His description of cataract surgery was compatible with the method of couching. [19]
Samhita is a Sanskrit word from the prefix sam (सम्), 'together', and hita (हित), the past participle of the verbal root dhā (धा) 'put'. [4] [5] The combination word thus means "put together, joined, compose, arrangement, place together, union", something that agrees or conforms to a principle such as dharma or in accordance with justice, and "connected with". [1]