It is worth noting that Sushruta may have been a contemporary of the also infamous Charaka, if not a successor. As a revered healer and sage, his gifts are often believed to have come from the gods. Sushruta’s work shares a wealth of medical techniques, but his own life and background still remains somewhat of a mystery not even his birth name is known! The name “Sushruta” is actually an epithet meaning “renowned.” Nonetheless, he is known to have practiced medicine in northern India along the banks of the Ganges River, near what is now Varanasi. It should also be mentioned that most scholars do not accept the claim that the physician Sushruta is associated with the Sushruta mentioned in the Mahabharata, the son of the sage Visvamitra. The same Sushruta is mentioned in the Agnipurana and Gaudapuranaas, again as a medical authority and pupil of Dhanvantari. While several different persons of the name Sushruta are mentioned in various Sanskrit sources, only one is described to have learned from a pupil of a Dhanvantari (an incarnation of Surya) and composed a treatise called Kalpaveda, which became the model of Sushruta’s Sushrutatantra, a medical work in one hundred chapters. Although he likely lived around the 7th or 6th century BCE (some even speculate as early as 1000 BCE), Sushtruta is still revered today for his influence in the critical development of Ayurvedic surgical procedures. Sushruta, often referred to as the “Father of Indian Medicine” or the “Father of Plastic Surgery,” was an influential physician in ancient India.
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