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Sushruta samhita

Maharishi Shushruta is a legendry scholar of the Indian medical science and founding father of surgery. A famous book Shalya Tantra has been described by the Shushruta about all the surgical procedures. Shalya Tantra was later named as the Sushruta Samhita have details about the ancient medical science of India, well known as the Ayurveda.

Maharishi Shushruta is the author of Sushruta Samhita in Sanskrit language and had described all the amazing surgical procedures with the accuracy and curative efficacy. His great findings have become an essential component of the Indian culture. The father of the Sushruta Samhita was the first person who had classified the surgical operations and explained the plastic surgery as well as its tools in his book of chapters in five parts.

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He had described around eight special operations for surgery, such as the cutting, piercing, opening, scratching, inserting, and stitching. Maharishi Shushruta had worked as both, the practitioner and the teacher of surgery. His contribution towards the Indian traditional medicine and the ancient cultural heritage of India will always be a precious.

After his great writing, he had become very famed personality and his writing was first translated into the Arabic language as a Kitab-i-Susrud in the 8th cen CE. Consequently, it got translated into the Latin and English languages. Maharishi Shushruta had become a worldwide legend and famous in many areas like doing surgery of the eye, amputations of the limbs and handling various complications after childbirth.

His redaction text, the Sushruta Samhita consists of chapters and explanation of illnesses, detail about medicinal plants, a detailed study on Anatomy, 64 research from mineral sources and 57 research based on the animal sources. Sushruta Samhita is the key reference book for all the ayurvedic surgeons. The Sushruta samhita has two parts, first one is known as the Purva-tantra have five sections and the second one is known as the Uttara-tantra.