A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c20.s3.74
A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c20.s3.74
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The Aṣṭāngahṛdayasaṃhitā is almost unanimously considered to have drawn extensively from Dṛḍhabala’s version of the Carakasaṃhitā, which establishes that Dṛḍhabala lived before the age of composition of the Aṣṭāngahṛdaya (about A.D. 600). The chronological position of the Aṣṭāṅgasamgraha with regard to the Aṣṭāngahṛdayasaṃhitā will be discussed in the section devoted to these works.