Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c5.19

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7. *Vāgbhaṭa II.* On the basis of Vāgbhaṭa’s Summary a much later namesake of his, whom I shall designate Vāgbhaṭa II, wrote a new work, in the name of which a return is made to the older usage, by calling it the Compendium of the Essence of the Octopartite Science (*Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdaya Saṃhitā*). With reference to him the author of the Summary (*Saṃgraha*) is sometimes called, by Indian commentators, Vāgbhaṭa the elder (*vṛddha Vāgbhaṭa*).