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² *Sūtra*, XII. Kāṅkāyana also appears in Caraka, *Sūtr*, I. 12; XXV, 22; XXVI, 8&śār., VI, 21; MS Bower, ed., Hoernle, 935. Vāgbhaṭa; *Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha*, cik., X (ed. Gaṇeśaśarman, Vol. II, p. 64); *Cakradatta*, *Cikitsāsaṃgraha*, V, 19 (Kāṅkāyanaguṭikā); XXX, 35, (*Kāṅkāyanamodaka*); Nityanatha, *Rasaratnākara*, ed. of Bombay, 1897, p. 490 (*Kaṅkāyanaguṭikā*); *Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā*, 2, VII, p. 50 et ff. (*Kāṅkāyanaguṭikā*). He is mentioned in the commentary of Dalhaṇa on Suśruta, *Sūtr*, I, 2. The preparations ascribed to him include besides the *guṭikā* (pill) and the *modaka* (cake), or *vaṭaka* (fried cake) whose récipé is given by G. Mukhopadhyaya, *Hist. of Ind. Medicine*, (Vol. II, Calcutta, 1926, pp. 464 & 466). The proposed identification, in this book, of Kāṅkāyana with the Kankah mentioned by Reinaud, *Mémoire sur l’Inde*, p. 314, is impossible, as the personage discussed by Reinaud belongs to the Muslim period. In the *Kauśikasūtra*, a Kāṅkāyana is twice mentioned, without, however, being designated as a Bactrian or as a doctor.