Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t19.2

c6.s1.t19.2

1. In the Medical and Non-medical Versions we possess three independent presentments of the doctrine of Ātreya concerning the skeleton, transmitted, probably, by three members of his school. To two of these members, Agniveśa and Bheḍa, the two Medical Versions professedly are due. Agniveśa’s Version we possess only as contained in the Compendium of Charaka, but that Charaka introduced no material change into it, is proved by its close agreement with the Version of Bheḍa. The name of the third member, on whose presentment of Ātreya’s system the Non-medical Version probably is based, is not known, neither its reputed author Yājñavalkya, nor any of the old commentators recording any tradition on the subject.