FUNDAMENTALS OF RACHANA SHARIRA WITH RESPECT TO SUSHRUTA SAMHITA SHARIRA STHANA

Abstract

Rachana Sharira is one of the vital subjects where thorough understanding of the basic principles, including micro and macro anatomy of human body is creditably available.In Ayurveda Samhitas,there is no major Samhitas without Sharira Sthana which emphasis the importance of the subject.Among all Samhitas, Sharira Sthana is best described in Sushruta Samhita.As known to us,Acharya Sushruta is the Father of Surgery. He emphasized that, without proper knowledge of Sharira(human body),a physician cannot diagnose or treat or do any surgery on the patients properly. Thus for acquiring that essential knowledge of human body,in 5th century BC,he is the first person who did the dissection of Human Dead Body,before Modern Anatomy even exists.From a shapeless form ,our human body is developed into such an amazingly complex form,which we can study fromRachana Sharira. Acharya Sushruta,congruously described the anatomy of human body in Sushruta Samhita Sharira Sthana,right from the formation of birth,with all the fundamental aspects.