A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c60.60

v4.c60.60

201 C. Dwarkanath placed the work in the twelfth century (1991: 42) or in the period between the tenth and twelfth centuries (1991: 155). Kaṇāda’s treatise cannnot be the oldest on the subject, since conflicting views are mentioned (compare stanzas 16 and 18 on the location of the pulses of the three doṣas with respect to the three fingers of the examining physician; stanza 18 is considered as not resting on authority by Śaṃkarasena and Jīvānandavidyāsāgara; compare the verses from Dattarāma’s Nāḍīdarpaṇa quoted in the Bhāratīyanāḍīvijñāna and Bhūdharabhaṭṭa’s Nāḍījñānadarpaṇa).