[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907) › c5.19 # Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c5.19 Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c5.19 - **Language:** English ### [c5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c5.19) 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\*). - [Previous: c5.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c5.18) - [Next: c5.s1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c5.s1.1) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c5) ## Cites (1) - [Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.vagbhata.astangahrdaya) — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.hoernle-1907.c5.19) · Pramāṇa