A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.s3.3

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A. Stenzler 200 reached about the same conclusions as H.H. Wilson. Stenzler pointed to the fact that Ibn Abī Uṣaybi‘a explicitly states that Suśruta’s treatise was translated into Arabic by order of Yaḥyā ibn Ḳhālid,201 who died in the beginning of the eighth century, which establishes the lower limit for Suśruta. Stenzler brought forward, as his own opinion, that the Suśrutasaṃhitā, considering its style and the metres used, might date from some centuries after Christ.