A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c26.s17.126

v1.c26.s17.126

N.N. Das Gupta 338 may have been the first to suggest that the commentator and the lexicographer of the same name are one and the same person. The only grounds adduced by N.N. Das Gupta are the medical nature of the commentaries and the nighaṇṭu, combined with the fact that Indu is not a commonplace name amongst medical writers. Some later authorities tend to accept the proposed identity, basing themselves on the anonymous definitions of a pharmacopoeial nature, obviously quoted from some nighaṇṭu, in Indu’s commentaries. 339