A Concise History of Science in India c8.s2.t2: Lost Treatises of Āyurveda

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Apart from the two great *saṃhitās*, there were many other treatises on the therapeutic branch of medicine, termed the Ātreya school of medicine. Some of them are lost beyond all possible hope of recovery, but their names and subjects are available from references in existing works. Such lost treatises include the *saṃhitās* credited to Agniveśa, Kṣarapāṇi, Jatukarṇa, Parāśara, Hārīta, Kṣaranāda, Viśvāmitra, Kapila and Gautama. Of the Dhanvantari school with its stress on surgery, the lost works are the *Vṛddha Suśruta* or *Sauśruta tantra*, the treatises credited to Aupadhenava, Aurabhra, Pauṣkalāvata, Gopurarakṣita, Vaitaraṇa and Bhoja. The *Bhoja-saṃhitā*, also known as *Vṛddhabhoja*, should not be confused with a lexicon compiled by Bhojarāja of a much later age.