Susruta Samhita - Mandhata Global

1907
V. 2-
PREFAGE.
It is with mingled feelings of pain and
pleasure that we now place before the public the
Second Volume of our English Translation of
the Susruta Samhita, The arduous task of com-
piling a connected and succint history of any
part whatever, of the ancient Hindu System
of Medicine—requires greater leisure and more
extensive reading than we can lay any pre-
tension to. Years of patient study and constant
discourse with our sainted preceptor the late
lamented Mahamahopadhyaya Kaviraj Dwaraka
Nath Sen, Kaviratna, that refulgent link of the
golden chain of the Dhanvantaric succession,
have enabled us, however, to grasp the leading
facts, and during the last few years we have
worked continuously, in moments snatched from
the practice of an anxious profession that knows
no respite, to arrange these facts in their present
form. It breaks our heart to record the sad
departure of our venerable Acharyya from this
sublunary sphere to a land "from whose bourne
no traveller e'er returns.'*
It is hardly necessary for us to reply to those
critics who, through their ignorance of the original