The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c6.28

c6.28

Quite frequently the sects or schools imitate one another and resort to plagiarism, by changing the proper names of personages whom they quote. A large number of Buddhist and Jaina legends, or Hindu and Jaina ones, attribute the same facts and gestures to their respective heroes. Naturally the two medical schools, which inherited a common tradition, had to adopt, each of them, a different way of describing the same thing. In any case, both in the *gṛhyasūtras* and in the grammatical tradition, Atri is quite often mentioned along with Bharadvāja¹ and even with Ātreya.² In presenting Bharadvāja and