Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.13

c6.s1.13

In the third place, the recension of Jīvānanda has the support of the Medical Version of Ātreya’s system as handed down by Bheḍa (or Bheḷa), as well as the Non-medical Version of that system as preserved in Yājñavalkya’s Law-book and other non-medical works (see § 14). Seeing that all three versions—the Medical Versions of Charaka and Bheḍa, and the Non-medical Version—equally profess to present the teaching of Ātreya, their almost verbal agreement affords the strongest testimony in favour of Jīvānanda's recension of the Version of Charaka.