Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.12

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In the second place, the recension of Jīvānanda has the support of the oldest existing commentary of Chakrapāṇidatta (*c.* 1060 A.D.). A considerable number of names of more or less ancient glossators or commentators is known, for a list of which Dr. P. Cordier’s *Récentes Découvertes*, pp. 10, 11, may be consulted. But the commentary of Chakrapāṇidatta is the only one that now survives, and even of it, manuscripts are extremely rare, and all are incomplete. I was able to consult the Tübingen University MS., M. a. 463 (Cat., No. 146). It fortunately contains Chakrapāṇidatta’s glosses on Charaka’s statement in question. These glosses are based entirely on the recension which is printed in Jīvānanda’s edition, and while they refer to various interpretations of it, they give no indication whatsoever of the existence of a recension even faintly resembling that of Gaṅgādhar’s edition.