A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c59.128

v4.c59.128

330 Ahicchatra was identified as Ramnagar, twenty miles west of Bareli in Rohilkhaṇḍa by Nando Lal Dey (1979: 2–3), as Ramnagar, near Anola in the Bareilly District by N.N. Bhattacharyya (1991: 51). V. Raghavan (1975: 180–181) reports that Durgashankar Shastri has shown that Kalyāṇa and his father Mahīdhara were Prasnora Nāgara Brahmins who called themselves of Ahicchatra jñāti; their great-grandson Veṇīdatta composed the Rasataraṅgiṇī in 1661/62 (Th. Aufrecht mentions in his CC only a commentary by Veṇīdatta on Bhānudatta’s R). R. Mitra (Notices II, Nr. 818) states that Kalyāṇa was born at Ahicchatra.