Answer» Correct Answer - Option 1 : Susruta Samhita
The correct answer is Susruta Samhita. - Susruta Samhita is an ancient Indian book on surgery.
- The Sushruta Samhita 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 Sushruta and Charaka texts differ in one major aspect, with Sushruta Samhita providing the foundation of surgery, while Charaka Samhita being primarily a foundation of medicine.
- It is one of the two foundational Hindu texts on the medical profession that have survived from ancient India.
- The Sushruta Samhita was composed after Charaka Samhita, and except for some topics and their emphasis, both discuss many similar subjects such as General Principles, Pathology, Diagnosis, Anatomy, Sensorial Prognosis, Therapeutics, Pharmaceutics and Toxicology.
| List -1 (Author) | List -2 (Book) | | A. Kautilya | 2. Arthashastra | | B. Panini | 1. Ashtadhyayi | | C. Kamandaka | 4. Nitisara | | D. Kalidas | 3. Kumarasambhava |
- Kalidasa
- He was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India's greatest playwright and dramatist.
- His plays and poetry are primarily based on the Vedas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and the Puranas.
- His surviving works consist of three plays, two epic poems, and two shorter poems.
- Panini
- He was an ancient Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and revered scholar in ancient India.
- Since the discovery and publication of his work by European scholars in the nineteenth century, Pāṇini has been considered the "first descriptive linguist", and even labelled the father of linguistics”.
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