Suśruta (Āyurveda scholar)

Suśruta—Agniveśa was such the greatest among the disciples of Punarbasu Ātreya; Similarly, Suśruta was one of the disciples of Divodāsa Dhanvantari. Maharṣi Suśruta was one of the twelfth disciples of Dhanvantari. The name of his book is 'Suśrutatantra'. Which was later revised by Nāgārjuna to become known as the Suśruta Saṃhitā. The fourth chapter of the Anuśāsana-Parva of the Mahābhārata tells of Suśruta, the son of Maharṣi Viśvāmitra, an expert in surgery and a disciple of Dhanvantari. At the behest of Devarāja Indra, the Āyurvedic scholar Dhanvantari was born in Kāśīdhāma of Āyurveda and was born as a Kṣatriya named Divodāsa. When Viśvāmitra found out about it in meditation, he gave his son Suśruta there to study Āyurveda. Later, Suśruta's work was reformed by Nāgārjuna and became known as Suśruta-Saṃhitā. Again, according to many scholars, the two Suśrutas are said to be an old Suśruta and the second Suśruta to be among the disciples of Divodāsa. Old Suśruta was the first to be counted, who composed the original 'Suśrutatantra'. Then the second Suśruta reshaped him and gave him a new look. This Suśruta is the son of Viśvāmitra. The Suśruta Saṃhitā, compiled by Suśruta, was composed between the fifth and sixth centuries BC. According to many scholars, the period of old Suśruta is the Upaniṣad period (1000- 1400 BC). Many have accepted the period of Suśruta as the second century, which is considered as the time of Sātabāhana empire^[1].