The Sushruta Samhita (सुश्रुतसंहिता, IAST: Suśrutasaṃhitā, literally “Suśruta’s Compendium”) is an ancient Sanskrit text on medicine and surgery, and one of the most important such treatises on this subject to survive from the ancient world
The Compendium of Suśruta is one of the foundational texts of Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine), alongside the Charaka-Saṃhitā, the Bheḷa-Saṃhitā, and the medical portions of the Bower Manuscript
It is one of the two foundational Hindu texts on the medical profession that have survived from ancient India
The Suśrutasaṃhitā is of great historical importance because it includes historically unique chapters describing surgical training, instruments and procedures which is still followed by modern science of surgery
One of the oldest Sushruta Samhita palm-leaf manuscripts is preserved at the Kaiser Library, Nepal