Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c17.80

c17.80

p.22.l.15—For the details of the medical MSS found in Eastern and Southern Turkestan, see Hoernle : An Ancient Medical Manuscript from Eastern Turkestan, R. G. Bhandarkar Commemoration Volume, pp. 415 ff.; H. Lüders, Festgabe Garbe, pp. 148 ff. " Another manuscript, written on leather, from South Turkestan or Northern India, dating probably from the end of the second century A. D., say a hundred years before the manuscript of the Kalpanāmaṇḍitikā and fifty years after the manuscript of Aśvaghoṣa's plays, is of interest, as it preserves a tradition of a doctrine of eight or ten rasas as opposed to the six which Caraka and Suśruta recognize and which are generally accepted in Indian Medicine. It is possible that we here have a trace of an older medical system, which was ultimately superseded by the system of Ātreya on which the work of Caraka is based " ( Keith, HSL, Preface xxiii ).