A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c20.s3.12

v1.c20.s3.12

Some peculiarities found in Dṛḍhabala’s chapters of the Carakasaṃhitā which point to him as an author who lived in the Gupta age are, according to P.V. Sharma: passages reminiscent of treatises on kāmaśāstra (Ci.30.135 and 164);³²⁸ the list of peoples of the last chapter of the Cikitsāsthāna (Ci.30.315–319);³²⁹ the prose style of a passage in chapter one of the Kalpasthāna (Ka.1.8), reminiscent of the prose works of Subandhu and Bāṇa.³³⁰