The Sushruta Samhita (सुश्रुतसंहिता, IAST: "Suśrutasaṃhitā", literally "Suśruta's Compendium") 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 "Compendium of Suśruta" is one of the foundational texts of Ayurveda (Indian traditional medicine), alongside the "Caraka-Saṃhitā", "the Bheḷa-Saṃhitā", and the medical portions of the Bower Manuscript. It is one of the two foundational Hindu texts on medical profession that have survived from ancient India.