A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c51.s8.43

v3.c51.s8.43

The *Rasendrasārasamgraha* is later than the *Rasamañjarī* which is quoted. It would be earlier than the last quarter of the fifteenth century, the period of Śivadāsasena, if this commentator's single quotation from Gopālakṛṣṇa's work would prove to be genuine.¹⁷⁶ The *Rasendrasārasamgraha* antedates the *Bhāvaprakāśa* in P.V. Sharma's opinion, who claims¹⁷⁷ that the latter cites the former; this assertion, however, cannot be substantiated. Gopālakṛṣṇa's descriptions of the preparation of rasasindūra (1.62–72) and rasakarpūra (1.73–75) throw doubt on an early dating of the *Rasendrasārasamgraha* and may point to the fifteenth or sixteenth century as the period of composition.¹⁷⁸ The quotation from a rasaśāstra author called Mādhava in Gopālakṛṣṇa's auto-commentary even suggests, if the remark derives from the *Āyurvedaprakāśa*, that the work belongs to the eighteenth century.¹⁷⁹