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type: Reference
bundle: ayurveda-consciousness
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id: sushruta-samhita
title: Suśruta Saṃhitā
description: 'The foundational compendium of the surgical school, source of the canonical positive definition of health (svastha, Sūtrasthāna 15.41), the doctrine of para and apara ojas, and the five-fold enumeration of purification that includes bloodletting.'
tags:
- reference
- sushruta-samhita
- shalya
timestamp: '2026-07-09'
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license: CC BY-SA 4.0
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# Suśruta Saṃhitā

The Suśruta Saṃhitā is the root text of the śalya (surgical) tradition, attributed to Suśruta of the Dhanvantari school. Beyond surgery, this bundle draws on it for three loads: the definition of the svastha (Sūtrasthāna 15.41), which writes serenity of self, senses, and mind into health itself; the treatment of ojas including the para ojas of the heart whose loss is death (Sūtrasthāna 15); and the enumeration of the five purification procedures that counts raktamokṣaṇa among them. Its Śārīrasthāna also supplies the account of constitution at conception and the anatomy of the channels.
