A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c22.192

v1.c22.192

Vāpyacandra may also have commented on the Suśrutasaṃhitā,587 but the claim of some scholars that he wrote a commentary on the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā is unfounded.588 A Bāṣpacandratantra, the nature of which is unknown, seems to have existed in former years.589 Some scholars assume that Vāpyacandra composed a nighaṇṭu,590 because a number of quotations, found in particular in the Siddhamantraprakāśa, elucidate the nature and properties of medicinal substances. In favour of the view that Vāpyacandra wrote a nighaṇṭu is the fact that some of these quotations are in verse.591