A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c26.s15: The identities of the authors of the Saṃgraha and the Hṛdaya
A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c26.s15
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The identities of the authors of the Saṃgraha and the Hṛdaya
v1.c26.s15.1
Several views on the identity of the author of the Saṃgraha have already been discussed. Most scholars accept the trustworthiness of the information given at the end of the treatise, without discussing whether this information refers to the author of an original Saṃgraha or to a Vāgbhaṭa, who was involved in the process of its versification. The latter possibility would more easily explain that the Hṛdaya too came to be ascribed to Vāgbhaṭa.
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J. Jolly, 1052 who regarded the information at the end of the Saṃgraha as probably reliable, advanced that the Vāgbhaṭa mentioned in the colophons of MSS of the Hṛdaya, where the genealogy is not repeated, may simply have usurped the name of Vāgbhaṭa, son of Siṃhagupta.
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A.B. Keith 1053 gave as his opinion that the younger writer was very possibly a descendant of the older, though there is no proof for such a conjecture beyond the fact that it might explain their confusion.
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P.V. Sharma 1054 suggested that the author of the Hṛdaya may have been a grandson of the Vāgbhaṭa who wrote the Saṃgraha.