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A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c16.8

A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c16.8

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v1.c16.8

The total extent of the *Carakasaṃhitā* is said to be 12,000 units (verses and passages in prose) in a verse at the end of the treatise,²⁸ which is probably spurious.²⁹ The actual number of verses is 9,035; the prose passages amount to a number of 1,111.³⁰