A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c26.s3.121

v1.c26.s3.121

Bheḍa is one of the authorities quoted in the Saṃgraha who are left to be discussed. P.V. Sharma identified some passages which may have been influenced by Bheḍa, but without his name being mentioned. One of these is the description of one of the ways of examining food by the royal physician in order to prevent poisoning of the king (A.s. Sū.8.6–8). This method, the examination of the food’s rūpa, called annasvarūpaparīkṣā by P.V. Sharma, absent from Caraka and Suśruta, is found in the Bhelasaṃhitā (Sū.18. 4–6).