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202 In his commentary on the Cikitsākalikā and in the Yogaratnasamuccaya. 203 In the Yogaratnasamuccaya, as claimed by D.Ch. Bhattacharyya. 204 Ad Cakradatta, agnimāndyacikitsā 39. 205 A.F.R. Hoernle (1978: 100) placed both authors in the ninth or tenth century on faulty grounds, because he departed from a wrong chronology of Dṛḍhabala, while D.Ch. Bhattacharyya, assuming, on weak grounds, that both lived after Vṛnda, places them in the first half of the tenth century (1947a: 124–125; 1947b: 151–153). The quotation from Vāṅgadatta in Candraṭa’s Yogaratnasamuccaya (see AVI 285) has no certain chronological value, because Vāṅgadatta is absent as one of Candraṭa’s sources from the lists compiled by P.K. Gode and D.Ch. Bhattacharyya. 206 P.V. Sharma (AVI 213) calls the author Govardhana(datta). 207 P.V. Sharma (1993: Intr. 21 and 22) regards the Bṛhattantrapradīpa as a work of Bhavyadatta in his edition of Niścalakara’s Ratnaprabhā; formerly (AVI 213), he attributed it to Naradatta, Cakrapāṇi’s teacher. In spite of these claims, it may have been written by Bindusāra (see Niścala ad Cakradatta, jvara 232–233 and jvarātīsāra 16–25). The references to the Bṛhattantrapradīpa and Bhavyadatta in the Ratnaprabhā (ad mukharoga 1) need not imply that Bhavyadatta wrote the treatise; Bhavyadatta may have been acquainted with it. 208 NCC III, 205. 209 NCC VI, 183. 210 NCC VI, 183: not mentioned as a work of Govardhana.