A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c49.s2.14

v3.c49.s2.14

P.K. Gode 47 tentatively identified this Devanātha with the father of the Vāsudeva who wrote a commentary, called Bhuvanacandrikā or Bhuvanārthacandrikā, on Suba-ndhu's Vāsavadattā. 48 Vāsudeva's references to himself as a Śākadvīpīya made P.K. Gode advance this hypothesis. The provisional identification was supported by evidence, discovered somewhat later by P.K. Gode, after studying a MS of Vāsudeva's commentary. 49 Vāsudeva, who calls his father Devanātha an eminent physician and a second Dhanvantari, refers to and quotes from a work on rasaśāstra, called Rasamu-ktāvalī, written by him.