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Sushruta

Also called: Susruta

The pupil in whose name the Sushruta Samhita, the old Sanskrit text of surgery, is handed down; in its first chapter he and six other pupils ask Divodasa Dhanvantari of Kashi to teach them Ayurveda and begin with surgery. Wilson's note on the Vishnu Purana calls him Dhanvantari's pupil.

Sources: Sushruta Samhita, Sutrasthana 1 (Vedotpatti adhyaya), Sanskrit of the 1938 Acharya edition, Wujastyk's Sushruta Samhita project on saktumiva.org; Sushruta Samhita, Wikipedia; The Vishnu Purana, tr. H. H. Wilson (1840), Book IV chapter VIII: sons of Ayus, the kings of Kasi, former birth of Dhanwantari (sacred-texts, read on a mirror) · see Sushruta's web

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Sushruta taught by

Dhanvantari (God) All traditions · The physician who rose from the sea (Dhanvantari)
As Divodasa Dhanvantari of Kashi in the Sushruta Samhita's first chapter.

Stories 1

The physician who rose from the sea (Dhanvantari)
Legend · as the pupil who asks for surgery first · 2 tellings

Cited

Sushruta Samhita, Sutrasthana 1 (Vedotpatti adhyaya), Sanskrit of the 1938 Acharya edition, Wujastyk's Sushruta Samhita project on saktumiva.org Primary text (translation)
Sushruta Samhita, Wikipedia Encyclopedia
The Vishnu Purana, tr. H. H. Wilson (1840), Book IV chapter VIII: sons of Ayus, the kings of Kasi, former birth of Dhanwantari (sacred-texts, read on a mirror) Primary text (translation)