A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c17.3

v1.c17.3

Although the details of these stories, in particular those found in the Record of the twenty-three patriarchs, are untrustworthy, these sources, especially the Tsa-pao-ts’ang-king, which is based on a Sanskrit original, indicate that a physician known as Caraka or a caraka, may have been known about the times of the reign of Kaniṣka, towards the end of the first or the beginning of the second century A.D.²⁰