A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c48.s16.98

v3.c48.s16.98

Kāle’s assumptions regarding the identities of Govinda and Madana are arbitrary and unconvincing. The Rasahṛdayatantra cannot possibly date from the late eighth or early ninth century on account of the much more developed state of rasaśāstra in this work, compared with what is found in the works of Vṛnda, Cakrapāṇidatta and Vāgasena. The similarities between the Rasahṛdaya on the one hand and the Rasārṇava and Rasendracintāmaṇi on the other suggest that these three works were composed in about the same period. 193 D.G. White is of the opinion that the tenth or eleventh century is a plausible date for Govinda, in the light of the dates of later treatises that refer back to it. 194