Sushruta Samhita

The Sushruta Samhita is a Sanskrit text on surgery, attributed to Sushruta, (6th century BCE), the "father of Surgery".

The text as preserved dates to the 3rd or 4th century CE.Amongst the eight divisions of medical knowledge (Ayurveda), surgery was considered the most important branch. The text was translated into Arabic in the 8th century. However, Richard Salomon states that the earliest confirmed specimens of India's earliest written script, the Brāhmī script, are rock-cut inscriptions called the Edicts of Ashoka and are dated to the 3rd century BC; any excavated evidence for writing in India that may predate these Edicts (such as graffiti on pottery shards from Sri Lanka that may date to the 4th century BC) are controversial and their dating ambiguous