A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c50.s5.1

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Nityanātha’s Rasaratnākara has been assigned to the period between the third century B.C. and the fourth century after Christ, 162 the twelfth, 163 twelfth or thirteenth, 164 thirteenth, 165 thirteenth or fourteenth, 166 fourteenth, 167 and fifteenth century. 168 D.G. White expressed as his opinion that Nityanātha lived slightly later than Gorakṣanātha but earlier than the author of the Bhūtiprakaraṇa of the Gorakṣasaṃhitā, in the late thirteenth century. 169