A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.s2.22

v1.c23.s2.22

A.F.R. Hoernle¹⁴³ appears to have inclined to the view that the Nāgārjuna of Dalhaṇa was the well-known Buddhist patriarch of that name, often regarded as a contemporary of Kaniṣka. Accordingly, the compendia of Agniveśa and Suśruta would, in this theory, have been revised at about the same time.