If that lord of the people dose not come within the appointed time, forsooth shall that vile lord, of the Rākşasas, mince my limbs with his arrows like to a surgeon cutting off the limbs of an embryo. (This passage clearly indicates that there were proficient and skilled surgeons at the time when Rāmāyaṇa was written.)
तस्मिन्ननागच्छति लोकनाथे गर्भस्थजन्तोरिव शल्यकृन्तः। नूनं ममाङ्गान्यचिरादनार्य शस्त्रैः शितैच्छेत्स्यति राक्षसेन्द्रः॥