A Text Book On Salya Tantra Set of 2 Vols.

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A Text Book On Salya Tantra Set of 2 Vols. Ayurveda the science of life has been catering to the needs of the diseased mankind since ages. Among the disciplines of Ayurveda, the science of Shalyatantra gave releif when medicines could not work or had its own limitations. Owing to this Shalyatantra has been given a great place of respect in the field of Ayurveda. The science that was mastered by the Ashwini twins and brought to glory during the times of Sushrutha later lost its shine due to varied reasons. One among the many reasons being absence of authoritative texts after Sushrutha Samhita.

The tradition of medicine (Kayachikitsa) continued to flour- ish with many new physicians contributing to the development of new methods of diagnosis, describing signs and symptoms of various latest diseases, inventive formulations for the management of diseases and concretizing their knowledge by authoring texts of their own. But Shalyatantra had no or very few contributions by authors after Sushrutha. Rather than innovating and developing the science, the times of Buddhists, Mughals and British saw the total downfall of Shalyatantra. Lack of continued contributions in the form of new skills, instruments, methods of operative procedures, authoritative texts etc was a curse for the science of Shalyatantra.

The students of the present times also have been facing the same problems. There have not been many books published which could provide the complete knowledge of Shalyatantra at one place. Especially texts in English are a rarity.