Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c17.49.3

c17.49.3

T. Acharya and Pandit Hemaraj Sarma, Nirnaya Sagar press, Bombay, 1938, with an extensive intro. by Pandit Hemaraj. A MS of this work was discovered in the Nepal Durbar library, Katmandu. It is a dialogue between Kaśyapa and Bhārgava. According to the editors, the work was taught by Rṣi Mārica Kaśyapa, abridged by his disciple Vṛddha Jīvaka and revised by one of his descendents called Vātsya. This Kāśyapa seems to be the same as mentioned in the Bower MS. According to Pandit Hemaraj, Jīvaka, the compiler of this work is different from Jīvaka Komārabhacca, the physician of Gautama Buddha. The main portion of Kāśyapa Saṃhitā is divided into eight parts and contains 120 chapters. It has also a supplementary part comprising 80 chapters. There is much similarity of construction between Caraka and Kasyapa Samhitā. For detailed information regarding the date and composition cf. Hemaraj Pandit's Intro., also S. N. Dasgupta, *HIP* II, 432. (8) *Bheda Samhitā* published by the University of Calcutta (*JDL* IV, 1920). Incomplete. For the modern character of this work cf. Hoernle, *JRAS* 1909, pp. 869-70, 1910, pp. 830-34; Keith, *HSL*, p. 508; Kasyapa Samhitā intro. p. 25; Gananath Sen *PS*, intro. pp. 189. There is a great similarity of composition between the Samhitās of Caraka and Bheda. The numbers of sthānas and chapters is the same in both the works. Even the names of certain chapters are identical.