A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c57.562

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²⁵² D.Ch. Bhattacharyya (1947b). P.V. Sharma (1976: 73; 1993: Intr. 32) rejects this evidence, claiming that it was a tradition among authors to call their compilations Śāstra Madhukośa in view of their being collected from various sources, just as the honey in the combs of a bee-hive is collected from various flowers. In order to substantiate this claim, he refers to the concluding verses of Kāśīrāma's commentary on the Śārṅgadharasaṃhitā; Kāśīrāma, however, though comparing the author to a bee that collects honey, does not employ the term madhukośa.