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    Sushruta (Sanskrit: सुश्रुत, lit. 'well heard', IAST: Suśruta) is the listed author of the Sushruta Samhita (Sushruta's Compendium), a treatise considered...
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    The Sushruta Samhita (Sanskrit: सुश्रुतसंहिता, lit. 'Suśruta's Compendium', IAST: Suśrutasaṃhitā) is an ancient Sanskrit text on medicine and surgery,...
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    Sanskrit text on Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine). Along with the Sushruta Samhita, it is one of the two foundational texts of this field that have...
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    sages, and then to human physicians. Printed editions of the Sushruta Samhita (Sushruta's Compendium), frame the work as the teachings of Dhanvantari,...
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    to document a surgery was the 6th century BC Indian physician-surgeon, Sushruta. He specialized in cosmetic plastic surgery and even documented an open...
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  • Surgery by various sources. Sushruta (IAST: Suśruta), the purported author of the Sanskrit-language Sushruta Samhita (Sushruta's Compendium), has been called...
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  • text of the Atreya school, but it also shows some similarities with the Sushruta Samhita of the Dhanavantri school. The text is primarily in form of a dialogue...
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    Samhitas, Sangam and medieval period Indian cookbooks. A chapter in ancient Sushruta Samhita text is dedicated to dining etiquette, method of serving food and...
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    Charaka Samhita, was also Kashmiri and so was Udbhatta who commented upon Sushruta Samhita. The term Charaka is a label said to apply to "wandering scholars"...
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  • to the entire plant kingdom. However, according to Charaka Samhitā and Sushruta Samhita medical texts and the Vaisesikas school of philosophy, "vanaspati"...
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