A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.161

v3.c46.161

The quotations from Rāvaṇa’s Nāḍīparīkṣā by Aḍhamalla, if from this text and not from a floating tradition,¹³³ suggest a date anterior to the fourteenth century.¹³⁴ The reference to aṣṭasthānaparīkṣā seems to contradict such an early date since this subject is not mentioned in medical treatises until the beginning of the sixteenth century.¹³⁵