The Compendium of Suśruta 1.16

1.16

śalyasya varatve hetumāha-aṣṭānāmapītyādi | varatvasādhakamāśukriyākāritvamevāsya kuta ityāha-yantrādipraṇidhānāt | yantrādipraṇidhānaṃ cāśveva kriyate | yaducyate-“sakṛddevopaharecchastramāśu ca” (sū. a. 5) iti | taccāpyāśveva rogopaśamalakṣaṇāṃ kriyāṃ karoti, tenāsya cireṇa vyādhipraśamalakṣaṇakriyākāriṣu kāyacikitsādiṣu madhye yuktaṃ varatvam | hetvantaramāha-sarvatantrasāmānyācceti | sarvatantrasāmānyaṃ sarvaśālākyāditantraviṣayavyāpakatvam | yaduktaṃ - “yatkiṃcidābādhakaraṃ tat sarvaṃ śalyasaṃjñitam | vyāptanyajñānyato'nena śalyajñānena bhūriṇā” - iti | etacca śālākyādiṣu nāstīti śalyasya varatve hetuḥ | ye tu ‘adhikakriyākaraṇāt’ iti paṭhanti, tanmate'pi yantrādipraṇidhānāt sarvatantrasāmānyādadhikakriyākāritvaṃ jñeyam |