A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c42.s24.6

v3.c42.s24.6

Accepting the evidence supplied by ‘Alī ibn Sahl and later Arabic authors and taking into account the time needed for the work of an Indian writer to become so famous as to be translated into Arabic in Persia, and to be employed as one of his chief sources by an Arabic author in 849/850, it appears reasonable to suppose that Mādhava lived in the eighth century.