A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c8.17

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S. Dasgupta 33 remarked that the Carakasamhitā seems to take its start from the Vaiśeṣika. He expressed as his view 34 that Caraka's definition of sāmānya and viśeṣa shows that they were then not yet counted as separate categories, as in the later Vaiśeṣika; Caraka’s sūtras were in his opinion probably written at a time when the Vaiśeṣika doctrines were undergoing changes, and compendia were beginning to appear; he supposed that a compendia like the Bhāṣāpariccheda might have been available to the author. 35