A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c22.90

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It is beyond all doubt that Jejjata also wrote a commentary on the whole of the Suśrutasamhitā. This commentary, also partly preserved,379 must have been one of the oldest, or even the oldest one, on that treatise. Its title is nowhere recorded, although P. Cordier380 and S. Dasgupta381 held the opinion that it was called Bṛhallaghupañjikā.382 Jejjata's commentary on the Suśrutasamhitā must have remained available for a long time, since it was consulted by Candraṭa before he started writing his Suśrutapāṭhaśuddhi. Niścala's Ratnaprabhā on the Cakradatta and Ḍalhaṇa's Nibandhasamgraha on the Suśrutasamhitā are rich sources of quotations from Jejjata's commentary.383 Hemādri still refers to it in the introduction to his Āyurvedarasāyana on the Aṣṭāngahṛdayasamhitā as the model of the commentaries on the Suśrutasamhitā.