Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t1.13

c6.s2.t1.13

7. As regards Gaṅgādhar's recension, I have not been able to discover for it any authority whatsoever. It will be shown in the sequel (§§ 29-33) that the Traditional Recension is obnoxious to several very serious difficulties; and it is probable that the recension of Gaṅgādhar (§ 35) is a reconstruction of his own to meet those of the difficulties which he had noticed. Though in some respects, his reconstruction is an improvement on the Traditional Recension, it cannot be accepted as satisfactory, because it fails to meet the most serious of the difficulties of that recension.