Ayurveda is a wide and deep science which itself is full of knowledge and many scientific facts. With time these facts have been established by the great pioneers of Ayurveda. Their contributions for establishing various concepts create milestone in the history of Ayurveda. Innumerable researches and experiments are going on in the field of Ayurveda but some controversies are still remaining. Drishti is one of the controversial terminologies in Shalakya Tantra and there are many concepts which have been given time to time and are still evolving. At some places Drishti is taken as a functional entity and at other places as a structural unit. It also appears to have both structural and functional properties in few contexts. In the present study attempts are made to clarify the concepts regarding properties of Drishti on the basis of Ayurvedic texts and modern ophthalmology and conclusions have been drawn accordingly
