A History of Sanskrit Literature c34.s2.4

c34.s2.4

Suçruta is equally famous with Caraka, and he is named with Atreya and Hārīta in the Bower Manuscript, while the *Mahābhārata*² represents him to be a son of Viçvāmitra, and Nāgārjuna³ is credited with having worked over his text. Moreover, like Caraka, he won fame beyond India, for in the ninth and tenth centuries he was renowned both in Cambodia in the east and Arabia in the west. But his text also is not definitely assured until we have, as in the case of Caraka, the commentary of Cakrapāṇidatta in the eleventh century. We know of the older comments of Jaiyyaṭa and Gayadāsa, and Cakrapāṇidatta is supplemented by the comment of Ḍallana⁴ of the thirteenth century. We have also a revised text of Suçruta prepared by Candraṭa on the basis of the commentary of Jaiyyaṭa.⁵