A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c44.s49.90

v3.c44.s49.90

Date Trimalla’s chronological position has been a matter of controversy. Some authors assign him to the period between A.D. 1382/83 and 1498/99. 659 This dating, proposed for the first time by H.D. Velankar, 660 is based on the quotations from the Virasiṃhāvaloka 661 in the Yogatarangiṇī and the date of completion of a MS of Trimalla’s Śataślokī, described by Rājendralāl Mitra. 662 Atrideva 663 was of the opinion that Trimalla lived in the period between the Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā and Bhāvamiśra’s Bhāvaprakāśa, because the former is quoted, and because the term phiraṅgaroga, appearing for the first time in the Bhāvaprakāśa, is not yet employed by him. 664 On the latter point Atrideva