A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.s2.24

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Gaṇanāthasena¹⁴⁶ identified the reviser as Siddhanāgārjuna, author of Lohaśāstra, Kakṣapuṭa, etc., whom he assigned to the beginning of the Christian era. Similarly, G.P. Srivastava¹⁴⁷ regarded the Buddhist chemist Nāgārjuna, placed by him in the first century B.C. or the first century A.D., as the reviser and the author of the Uttaratantra. Bāpālāl Vaidya¹⁴⁸ and Umeśacandragupta¹⁴⁹ claimed that Siddhanāgārjuna, assigned to the beginning of the Christian era, was the proper candidate. P.S. Sankaran¹⁵⁰ chose the chemist Nāgārjuna who lived during the reign of Kaniṣka, R. Śāstrī¹⁵¹ the Nāgārjuna who lived during the Śātavāhana dynasty.