A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.s3.8

v1.c23.s3.8

A.F.R. Hoernle,211 who distinguished an original Suśruta and a Suśruta II, the reviser who added the Uttaratantra, regarded the former as the pupil of a Kāśirāja who was a teacher in the university of Kāśī in Buddha’s times. He argued that Suśruta was acquainted with the osteological system of Ātreya, 212 the leading professor of medicine at the university of Takṣaśilā in the time of Buddha or shortly before, which proves that the former was a younger contemporary of the latter. He moreover advanced that the author of the Śatapathabrāhmaṇa, placed in the sixth century B.C., was conversant with the doctrines of Suśruta. 213 Hoernle proposed for these reasons the sixth century B.C. as the date of the original Suśruta.