A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c17.5

v1.c17.5

Some of the arguments adduced against the identification are: the Caraka mentioned is not credited with a medical treatise; the absence of the name of any king in the Carakasaṃhitā; the improbability that a freely wandering physician like Caraka might have accepted the bondage of a royal court;²⁵ the paucity or supposed absence of Buddhist influence on the Carakasaṃhitā, while Kaniṣka was a convert to Buddhism;²⁶