The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c11.24

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This simple reference fully assures us that the pathological doctrine of the *tridoṣa*, whose elements, as we have seen, had not been gathered together in the period of the Vedic *saṃhitās*, as the mention of the phlegm does not appear before the *Śatapatha-brāhmaṇa*, had been fully constituted in Kātyāyana’s time. Kātyāyana is traditionally said to have lived under the Nandas, overthrown in 313 B.C. by Candragupta, and was therefore an author of the time of Alexander; this is in accord with the chronologies of other well-known grammarians, his predecessor, Pāṇini and his successor, Patañjali², although somewhat lower dates could also have been proposed.³