A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c43.s17.t2.6

v3.c43.s17.t2.6

Date One of the problems connected with the date of the Dhanvantariyanighaṇṭu is whether the treatise as it is known to us represents a revised and enlarged version of an earlier text, called Dravyāvali,332 that contained the Gaṇadravyāvali and the series of synonyms of the Nighaṇṭu only, and that has gradually developed into the Dhanvantariyanighaṇṭu as it is now.333 It has also been suggested that this process of growth continued for a long time, resulting in the incorporation of drugs that became current in later periods.334