A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c22.193

v1.c22.193

The upper limit of Vāpyacandra’s date is provided by the earliest authors to quote him, Vijayarakṣita and Śrīkaṇṭhadatta. The lower limit can be deduced from the Siddhamantraprakāśa in which Vopadeva twice states that Vāpyacandra disagrees with Jejjata, which means that he is later than the latter. Vāpyacandra’s posteriority to Jejjata is probably confirmed by Vijayarakṣita who, on two occasions, mentions a series of commentators who may have been put in chronological order: Jejjata–Vāpyacandra–Mādhavakara–Kārttikakuṇḍa,592 and Jejjata–Gadādhara–Vāpyacandra.593 The correctness of the hypothesis of a chronological order would narrow down the chronological position of Vāpyacandra in making him later than Gadādhara594 and earlier than Kārttikakuṇḍa. Two quotations, found in the Kusumāvalī, suggest that Vāpyacandra preceded Cakrapāṇidatta.595