A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c30.791

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²⁰⁸ The Gulabkunverba team (I, 91) reached the conclusion that the Nyāya concepts of the Carakasamhitā are still rudimentary and in a fluid state. J. Filliozat (in L. Renou et J. Filliozat, 1953: 55–56) expressed as his opinion that the Nyāya concepts of Caraka are earlier than those of the Nyāyasūtras and belong to a separate school, as shown by the differences; various schools existed before the period of composition of the Nyāyasūtras and are still referred to in the Nyāyabhāṣya. S.Ch. Vidyabhusana (1971: 50) claimed that the Carakasamhitā embodies logical doctrines of a cruder form than those of the Nyāyasūtras; he also thought (1971: 26) that Medhātithi Gautama's doctrines on ānvīkṣikī were accepted by Caraka in their crude form, while Akṣapāda pruned them thoroughly before they were assimilated in the Nyāyasūtras (S.Ch. Vidyabhusana distinguished between Gautama and Akṣapāda, usually thought to be identical). *W. Ruben (1954), on the other hand, was inclined to assume that the Nyāyasūtras are older than the Carakasamhitā, which borrowed