A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c58.76

v4.c58.76

519 G. Hāldār (Vṛddhatrayī 52) assigns Dhruvapāla to the twelfth century. The same author (Vṛddhatrayī 53 and 459) says that Mahīdhara was a son of Kalyāṇabhaṭṭa, who wrote the Bālatantra and lived in Ahicchatra; he places him in the eighth or ninth century. Kalyāṇa, however, belongs to the sixteenth century. Mahīdhara may be earlier than Vṛnda, because he was acquainted with the disorder called bradhna (= Vṛnda’s vardhma); see Niścala ad Cakradatta, vṛddhi 22. Sanātana refers to Govardhana’s Karmamālā (see Niścala ad Cakradatta, agnimāndya 14–15) and is therefore posterior to the latter.