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527 See V.S.S. Sastry and A.N. Pandey (1975a: 118): The stanza on Vāgbhaṭa as the teacher of Indu and Jejjaṭa (see the second verse of Nīlamegha's auto-commentary on the Tantrayuktivicāra) describes him as a Hindu; the statement by Ḍalhaṇa (ad Su.Śā.1.11) that Jejjaṭa omitted the mentioning of an īśvara in a verse of the Suśrutasamhitā need not point to his being a Buddhist, but may indicate that he adhered to the Sāṃkhya philosophy. See also P.V. Sharma and G.P. Sharma (1972: 90), who consider Jejjaṭa to have been a brāhmaṇa of Bharadvāja gotra and a devotee of Sarasvatī.