A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c42.s9.57

v3.c42.s9.57

The Khilasthāna may be due to Vātsya, who added it as a supplement to the Vṛddhajīvakatantra after revising the latter. 79 It has been given the same structure as the preceding sections. The supplementary character appears undisguised in the first verses of its first chapter, where Vṛddhajīvaka approaches Kaśyapa and asks him to elucidate the causes of irregular fevers, reminding him that he failed to discuss this subject in the chapter on the treatment of fevers. 80