A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.s3.2

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One of the earliest scholars to give his opinion on the date of the *Suśrutasaṃhitā* was H.H. Wilson, who stated that the work cannot have the prodigious age, which Hindu fable assigns to it; 196 he thought that, because Suśruta is mentioned in the Purāṇas, the ninth or tenth century was the most modern conjectural limit, while the style indicates a long anterior date. 197 Later, he became acquainted with the discovery, made by F.R. Dietz in 1833, that Suśruta was known in the Muslim world during the rule of Hārūn al-Rashīd. 198 J.A. Vullers 199 misinterpreted Wilson’s remarks, making him declare that Suśruta lived in the ninth or tenth century B.C. at the latest.