Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c8.24

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and also in some other works. Vṛnda prescribes quicksilver preparations less than Cakradatta⁴. In 7.13 quicksilver mixed with the juices of poisonous plants is prescribed for external use against lice. In the serial order of diseases Vṛnda follows, as he has said in 1.2 and as the comparison also confirms, the Gaḍaviniscaya or Rugviniścaya (see below) which must, therefore, be older. Also Vāgbhaṭa must be older than Vṛnda who quotes⁵ him in 1.27. His mention of a medicine imported from Persia, viz. Pārasīyavavānī (7.1) i.e. Yavānī grown in Persia, might be advanced as an argument against taking back his date too much. The commentary of Śrīkaṇṭhadatta contains many quotations from Caraka, Suśruta, AS, AHr, MN, Hārīta and other old authors. Since Śrīkaṇṭhadatta quotes an older commentator of Vṛnda, Caṇḍraṭa and Hemādri along with Bhoja, Cakradatta and Dallana, he cannot have flourished before the 14th century.