A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c57.99

v4.c57.99

evidence against use of the Carakasaṃhitā, which is certain, for Ātreya ranked as the teacher of Caraka (sic !), and the pupil, therefore, was covered by the teacher’s name. V.N. Pandey (1992: 235–238) claims that the absence of Caraka’s name leads to the conclusion that he was not yet popular; in his view, it follows from this that the author of the Nāvanītaka utilized the Agniveśatantra not long after the period in which Caraka revised it; this makes V.N. Pandey conclude that the texts of the Bower MS were written for the use of hospitals during or after the reign of Aśoka, in the second century B.C. 199 See also R.F.G. Müller (1932): 810.