A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.35

v3.c43.35

The issue whether one or two Candranandanas contributed to the medical literature can be elucidated by comparing the synonyms of medicinal plants, found in the Madanādinighaṇṭu, with those mentioned in the Padārthacandrikā. It so happens that the synonyms occurring in the latter work are for the greater part one of the first of the strings of names of the former, which suggests that both works are by one and the same author. The Tibetan tradition also regards the commentator and the author of the nighaṇṭu as identical.⁹⁵