A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c30.717

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¹²⁶ P.V. Sharma refers to Ca.Śā.1.152–153. The thesis that the Four Noble Truths were borrowed from the art of healing, enunciated for the first time by H. Kern (1882: I, 207 and 367; 1896: 46–47) and repeated by others (E. Frauwallner, 1953: I, 184; A. Bareau, 1964: 33; D. Chattopadhyaya, 1979: 341–342; P.V. Sharma, 1989a: 28; see for more references: A. Wezler, 1984), was critically examined and rejected by A. Wezler (1984). See also J. Filliozat (1934b) and W. Halbfass (1991: 243–263).