Sushruta
600 BCE · Varanasi (Benares)
Suśruta (Sanskrit: सुश्रुत, lit. 'well heard', IAST: Suśruta) was an ancient Indian physician and surgeon, who made significant contributions to the field of plastic and cataract surgery. He was the author of the Suśruta Saṃhitā (Suśruta's Compendium), considered to be one of the most important surviving ancient treatises on medicine. It is also considered a foundational text of Ayurveda. The treatise addresses all aspects of general medicine, including diet, surgery, nosology, anatomy, developmental biology, therapeutics, toxicology, paediatrics and other subjects. The inclusion of particularly impressive and historically important chapters on surgery has wrongly led some to believe that this is the work's primary focus. The treatise consists of 186 chapters. Acharya Sushruta was born in Kanyakubja and he later moved to Varanasi, where he wrote The Compendium of Suśruta.
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Varanasi (Benares), on the Ganges in Uttar Pradesh, India, near Sārnāth, is one of the holiest cities of India and a centre of learning. The Nyingma teacher Tarthang Tulku worked there at the Sanskrit university in the years before he emigrated to the United States to teach Tibetan Buddhism.
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