Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c5.s1.37

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10. *Their Dates.* The evidence of Arabic sources points to the seventh or eighth century for Mādhava, and that of Tibetan and other sources to the eighth or ninth century for Vāgbhaṭa II.² According to the evidence, already explained, Dṛḍhabala takes his place intermediately between Mādhava and Vāgbhaṭa II. Accordingly it is probable that all these three medical writers come in the period from the seventh to the ninth century, at no very great interval from one another. In any case none of them can be later than *c.* 1060 A. D., the date of Cakrapāṇidatta.