A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s3.5

v3.c44.s3.5

Lakṣmaṇa was the son of Datta of the Brahmajnānin family. He had three elder brothers, Gaṇeśa, Raghunātha, and Rāma, and one younger brother, Viṭṭhala, 369 and was a southerner, possibly a Mahārāṣṭra brāhmaṇa, who abandoned his property and went to Benares. 370 Lakṣmaṇa studied medicine at Benares under the tuition of two brothers, Nāgeśa (or Nāganātha, the author of the Nidānapradīpa) and Nārāyaṇa (who wrote the Jvaranirṇaya and a commentary on Śārṅgadhara’s Triśatī), which implies that the Yogacandrikā dates from the sixteenth century. 371