Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.s2.t3.57

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Nagarjuna is a name common to several famous scholars in ancient and medieval India linked with correlated areas like Buddhist philosophy, tantrism, medicine as well as alchemy, all of whom lived in the period ranging from 2nd to 9th centuries CE. He connected with the revision of *Suṣṛtasamhītā*, an ancient Indian work on medicine, especially surgery. He is traditionally considered to be the author of its last chapter that includes ophthalmology.