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Suśruta Saṃhitā — Sanskrit Text

by Suśruta

Sanskrit (Devanagari and IAST)

The Suśruta Saṃhitā, the great Āyurvedic treatise on surgery and the second of the Bṛhat-trayī. It describes surgical instruments and procedures, including rhinoplasty and cataract couching, together with anatomy, toxicology, obstetrics and the eight branches of medicine. Devanāgarī with IAST transliteration, 8,512 verses across 187 sections. Sanskrit text from Sanskrit Wikisource (sa.wikisource.org), available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence. IAST transliteration generated from the Devanāgarī. No English translation is included.