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The introduction calls surgery (śalya) one of the principal limbs of Ayurveda and says Suśrutācārya set it out in a systematic, scientific way; many surgical treatises existed earlier, by…

Adhrusha is treated with surgery, rubbing (pratisarana) and similar measures.

Having described the accessory instruments, the author turns briefly to the knives proper. Instruments have many qualities, and the physician who knows instruments, metals and surgery…

The scrotum is opened with great care, avoiding the sevani raphe; the fat is removed quickly, the wound is cleansed in due order and bound with hot drugs.

In baddha and sravi udara an incision is made on the left four fingers below the navel; the intestine is drawn out and inspected, the lodged pebbles, thorns and the like are removed, the…

If linganasha (timira) disperses quickly when pressed, it is known to be born of intense kapha. The patient looks at his own nose; the physician slowly pierces the natural opening in the…

Surgery for mouth diseases, obstructed labour, abdominal enlargement and urinary stone is done carefully without feeding the patient, and stone surgery promptly. For piles the commentary…

Of the eight mahodaras, the first four (from vata, pitta, kapha and their combination) are curable by excellent medicines and the other four by surgery; after a long time all of them need…

A soft stone is cured by medicines; a hard, grown stone is broken open with care and removed, that is, by surgery.

The first four (vata, pitta, kapha and combined) by medicines and the other four by surgery, with both needed after a long time; udaras that have ended as jalodara, and patients who refill…

Patients with mouth diseases, obstructed labour, abdominal enlargement or urinary stone are operated on with great care without being fed, and stone surgery is done promptly. For piles, the…

Before any of the eight surgical actions the physician assembles suitable medicines, knives, instruments (yantra), an operating room, cold and hot water, fire and gentle, affectionate…

For eye diseases curable by surgery the eye is smeared with ghee and fomented with hot water and a piece of cloth, after which the operation is done carefully with a sharp instrument by the…

Before any of the eight surgical actions such as cutting and splitting, the physician gathers suitable medicines, knives, instruments, an operating room (the commentary adds the English…

The introduction says no definite time can be given for the origin of Ayurveda, the science of life, because the need for it begins wherever living beings have life; since it is essential…

The text says terrible abdominal enlargements (mahodara) arise from the doshas singly or together, from liver and spleen disorders, from water, from poisons and from obstruction and foreign…

Bandaging is said to cleanse the wound, make it heal and make it soft and painless; so bandaging is always proper, and the verse calls it the right course in all wounds.

Bala graha is described as the seizure of children by grahas, each with its own signs and its own baths, oils, ghee, fumigations, amulets and offerings.

The text counts seventy-six eye diseases, lists their causes and their seats in the eye, and stresses that the eye must be protected in every way.

Chapter 12 treats piles as a major disease: causes, six kinds with their signs, sites in the anal folds, prodromes, its name mularoga, fatal signs, related growths elsewhere and their…

The publisher's note says that the speech of the Vītarāga Lord contains Ayurveda for the sake of religious practice, but that because of the faults of the present age many of those…

Ashmari (urinary stone) is described as kapha that hardens in the bladder into a dense stone. Kapha predominates in every stone, but four kinds are named after the leading factor: kapha,…

The physician who knows the curable and the means should weigh the strength of the doshas and use as suitable the decoctions, pastes, ghees and oils prepared with the drugs described…

To remove the many kinds of shalya in the body, instruments, knives, caustics and fire are used. Surgery has eight acts, excision, incision, scraping, puncturing, probing, extraction,…