Charaka and sushruta

While several different persons of the name Sushruta are mentioned in various Sanskrit sources, only one is described to have learned from a pupil of a Dhanvantari (an incarnation of Surya) and composed a treatise called Kalpaveda, which became the model of Sushruta’s Sushrutatantra, a medical work in one hundred chapters.  The same Sushruta is mentioned in the Agnipurana and Gaudapuranaas, again as a medical authority and pupil of Dhanvantari. [1]  It should also be mentioned that most scholars do not accept the claim that the physician Sushruta is associated with the Sush