A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c51.s7.1

v3.c51.s7.1

The Rasendramaṅgala by Nāgārjuna¹ is an important and very interesting early treatise. Confusion concerning this work was created by Prafulla Chandra Rāy, who based his studies on the text of the Jammu MS, catalogued as the Rasaratnākara of Nāgārjuna; probably he was already aware of the problems caused by this MS, which gives Rasendramaṅgala as the title in some of the colophons, but the one who first drew attention to the confusion of the so-called Rasaratnākara of Nāgārjuna with the Rasendramaṅgala² was P. Cordier.³