A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.s2.17

v1.c23.s2.17

Atrideva 124 suggested that the following features may be due to a reviser who lived during the Śātavāhana dynasty: the four different colours of the soil on which, dependent on the varṇa of the woman in childbed, the delivery hut (sūtikāgāra) should be constructed (Śā.10.5); the four different kinds of timber from which, dependent on the varṇa again, the hut and the bed should be made (Śā.10.5); the admission of śūdra students to the medical training (Sū.2.5); the reference to the feeding of brāhmaṇas after the preparation of a particular compound medicine (Ci.4.29); the veneration of (Bala)rāma and Kṛṣṇa (Ci.30.27).