A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c30.706

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111 A lost recension of the Atharvaveda, called Cāraṇavaidya (after a group of roving physicians), cannot be adduced in support of the contrary thesis, as P.V. Sharma is inclined to do, who (1989a: 11) advanced that it is more logical to presume that the later Carakas were affiliated to the Cāraṇavaidya branch of the Atharvaveda than to a Yajurvedic school concerned with sacrificial lore. See on the Cāraṇavaidya: S. Dasgupta (1975): II, 284; B.R. Modak (1993): 393–395; P.V. Sharma's Intr. (IX) to his ed. and transl. of the Carakasaṃhitā; P.V. Sharma (1989a): 11. The Cāraṇavidyās are mentioned in the Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa (Anuṣaṅgapāda 35.28; see G.V. Tagare's translation: 1983: 348; Tagare assumes that the nine schools of the Atharvaveda are meant).