A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c62.301

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Some scholars regard the Hastyāyurveda as a work that was written in Assam (see V. Raghavan, 1975: 29–30). The elephant-lore was well-developed in Assam, as appears from a finely illustrated Assamese text on the subject, the Hastividyārṇava, composed by the kāyastha Sukumāra Barkāth in A.D. 1734 on the request of the Ahom ruler Śivasimha (see on the ahoms: S.K. Chatterji, 1974) and his queen (edited, with an English translation, with 171 colour plates and 80 monochrome plates, by Pratap Chandra Choudhury, Gauhati 1976). See on this work: A. von den Driesch (1978/79); R. Das Gupta (1977); Th.R. Trautmann (1982): 278.