 The "Sushruta Samhita" is one of the most important surviving ancient treatises on medicine and is considered a foundational text of Ayurveda.The treatise addresses all aspects of general medicine, but the translator G. D. Singhal dubbed Suśruta "the father of surgery" on account of the detailed accounts of surgery to be found in the work.The "Compendium of Suśruta" locates its author in Varanasi.