A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c30.758

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¹⁷⁸ Guṇaratna lived in the fourteenth (S. Dasgupta, 1975: I, 217) or fifteenth (G.J. Larson and R.S. Bhattacharya, Eds., 1987: 291), Haribhadra in the fifth (S. Dasgupta, 1975: I, 68), eighth (G.J. Larson and R.S. Bhattacharya, Eds., 1987: 315), or ninth (Winternitz II, 353) century. S. Dasgupta's view in this matter was accepted by P.V. Sharma and Atrideva (ABI 169). The latter and Jyotir Mitra (1982: 311) suppose that the maulikyaḥ are referred to in Ca.Sū.25.15 (sāmkhyair ādyaiḥ). Guṇaratna mentions two authoritative Sāmkhya treatises, the Māṭharabhāṣya and the Ātreyatantra. S. Dasgupta (1975: I, 213) advanced that the Sāmkhya of the Carakasamhitā is based on this Ātreyatantra, which implies that he supposed it to belong to the oldest layer (compare Jyotir Mitra, 1982: 312). Some are of the opinion that the Atri mentioned as a Sāmkhya teacher was the father of Ātreya Punarvasu (see Jyotir Mitra, 1982: 326–327).