A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c20.s3.25

v1.c20.s3.25

A preliminary problem, namely whether or not Dṛḍhabala could still dispose of fragments of largely lost parts of Caraka’s treatise, is unsolvable. He could, however, avail himself of the original version of the table of contents in the last chapter of the Sūtrasthāna, provided that such a table was already present there. Another source may have been the old version of the Bhelasamhitā, a work belonging to the school of Ātreya and showing many similarities with the Carakasamhitā.522