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The Sushruta Samhita (सुश्रुतसंहिता) is a Sanskrit redaction text on surgery. The original work is attributed to Sushruta, likely a historical physician from the sixth century BC Varanasi,[SUP][1]](Sushruta Samhita - Wikipedia)[/SUP][SUP][2]](Sushruta Samhita - Wikipedia)[/SUP][SUP][3]](Sushruta Samhita - Wikipedia)[/SUP] although the text as preserved dates to the 3rd or 4th century AD. It is one of three foundational texts of Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine), alongside the Charaka Samhita and the medical portions of the Bower Manuscript.[SUP][4]](Sushruta Samhita - Wikipedia)[/SUP] The original text however is lost and modifications and edited versions are currently available**
Probably most influential work in medicine. Chinese medicine has roots in Indian medicine as well. **
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Aryabhata** (Sanskrit: आर्यभट; IAST: Āryabhaṭa) or Aryabhata I[SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP] (476–550 CE)[SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][4][/SUP] was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His works include the Āryabhaṭīya (499 CE, when he was 23 years old)[SUP][5][/SUP] and the Arya-siddhanta. The works of Aryabhata dealt with mainly mathematics and astronomy.
Varāhamihira
pronunciation (help·info) (Devanagari: वराहमिहिर) (505–587 CE), also called Varaha or Mihir, was an Indian astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer who lived in Ujjain. He was born in Avanti region, roughly corresponding to modern-day Malwa, to Adityadasa, who was himself an astronomer. According to one of his own works, he was educated at Kapitthaka.[SUP][1][/SUP] He is considered to be one of the nine jewels (Navaratnas) of the court of legendary ruler Yashodharman Vikramaditya of Malwa.,
Bhāskara[SUP][1][/SUP] (also known as Bhāskarāchārya (“Bhāskara the teacher”), and as Bhāskara II to avoid confusion with Bhāskara I) (1114–1185), was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Bijapur in modern Karnataka.[SUP][2][/SUP]
Bhāskara and his works represent a significant contribution to mathematical and astronomical knowledge in the 12th century. He has been called the greatest mathematician of medieval India.[SUP][3][/SUP] His main work Siddhānta Shiromani, (Sanskrit for “Crown of treatises”[SUP][4][/SUP]) is divided into four parts called Lilāvatī, Bījagaṇita, Grahagaṇita and Golādhyāya,[SUP][5][/SUP] which are also sometimes considered four independent works.[SUP][6][/SUP] These four sections deal with arithmetic, algebra, mathematics of the planets, and spheres respectively. He also wrote another treatise named Karaṇa Kautūhala
No wonder artronomy and related supersitions are so big in Indo/Pak. A lot of influential people seem to have worked in astronomy.
Valmiki (Sanskrit: वाल्मीकि; Vālmīki)[SUP][1][/SUP] is celebrated as the harbinger-poet in Sanskrit literature. He is the author of the epic Rāmāyaṇa, based on the attribution in the text of the epic itself.[SUP][2][/SUP] He is revered as the Ādi Kavi, which translates to First Poet, for he invented śloka[SUP][3][/SUP] (i.e. first verse or epic metre), which set the base and defined the form to Sanskrit poetry.
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Vyasa appears for the first time as the compiler of, and an important character, in the Mahābhārata. It is said that he was the expansion of Lord Vishnu Himself who came in Dwaparyuga to make all the Vedic knowledge available in written form which was available in Sound form at that time.
He was the son of Satyavati, daughter of the fisherman Dusharaja,[SUP][6][/SUP] and the wandering sage Parashara (who is accredited for being the author of the first Purana: Vishnu Purana). He was born on an island in the river Yamuna.[SUP][7][/SUP] He was dark-complexioned and hence may be called by the name Krishna (black), and also the name Dwaipayana, meaning ‘island-born’.
Hindus traditionally hold that Vyasa categorised the primordial single Veda into four. Hence he was called Veda Vyasa, or “Splitter of the Vedas,” the splitting being a feat that allowed people to understand the divine knowledge of the Veda. The word vyasa means split, differentiate, or describe.
he Vishnu Purana has a theory about Vyasa.[SUP][8][/SUP] The Hindu view of the universe is that of a cyclic phenomenon that comes into existence and dissolves repeatedly. Each cycle is presided over by a number of Manus, one for each Manvantara, that has four ages, Yugas of declining virtues. The Dvapara Yuga is the third Yuga.