The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c12.4

c12.4

Of the two texts which claim to report the very words of Ātreya concerning the wind, the more important is of the *Caraka-saṃhitā*. The one of the *Bhela-saṃhitā* which has reached us in a single manuscript is, at places, considerably altered. This comparison, nevertheless, suffices to show that the ideas presented on either side go back to a common source older than both the texts. The *Suśruta-saṃhitā* usefully completes in details the enunciations of Caraka and Bhela.