A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c26.s3.39

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D.Ch. Bhattacharyya,³⁰⁹ who places one single Vāgbhaṭa, author of Saṃgraha and Hṛdaya, in the ninth century, a long time after I-ching’s stay in India, suggested that the latter’s reference to an epitome of the eight branches of medicine might aim at any of the compendia which existed at the time and would have achieved notoriety and popularity. The availability of these compendia is not doubtful, since they were the sources of Vṛnda, Caṇḍraṭa, and other writers. Examples given by D.Ch. Bhattacharyya are Ravigupta’s Siddhasāra, Acyuta’s Āyurvedasāra, and the works of Bhadravarman and Bindusāra.