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On Suśruta’s Compendium we have Ḍallaṇa’s commentary, called *Nibandha Saṃgraha*, or Summary of Commentaries. The earliest known quotations of this work are by Hemādri and Vāchaspati,³ who lived about 1260 A. D.; and as Ḍallaṇa himself quotes Cakrapāṇidatta, he should be placed in the twelfth century. He frequently quotes also a commentary (*pañjikā* or *candrikā*) by Gayadāsa (or simply Gayin), called *Nyāya Candrikā*, or Reasoned Elucidation. Gayadāsa, therefore, cannot be placed later than the eleventh century, and he may have been a contemporary of Cakrapāṇidatta, seeing that neither appears to quote from the other.⁴