A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c30.839

v2.c30.839

2 The major part of the sources call him Manka or Mankah. Names found in the secondary literature are Mankbah (A. Müller, 1880: 496: this form of the name occurs in al-Ṭabarī’s Ta’rīkh according to *J.T. Reinaud, 1849: 315–316), Mikna (C. Elgood, 1979: 101), and Manaka (R.L. Verma, 1992: 473). C. Elgood (1979: 372) mentions an Indian called Sanjahl as the translator of Caraka into Persian; he refers to an edition of Uṣaybi‘a, II, 32–33; this may be based on some misunderstanding, since this Sanjahl is credited with a book on nativities, the Kitāb al-mawālīd in Uṣaybi‘a’s ‘Uyūn (see W. Cureton, 1841: 107). Manka is sometimes confused with Kanka (see: M.S. Khan, 1979: 3 and 9; A. Weber, 1857: 114–116); see on Kanka: Kāṅkāyana.