A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c62.302

v4.c62.302

701 Haraprasād Shāstrī (1919; compare S.K. De, 1940: 73) was inclined to assign the work to the fifth or sixth century A.D., while Atrideva (ABI 506) regards it as composed between the fourth or fifth and the eleventh century. K.R. Srikantamurthy (1968: 47) places Pālakāpya in the first or second century of the Christian era. J. Filliozat (in L. Renou and J. Filliozat, 1953: 166) expressed as his opinion that the work cannot be earlier than the mediaeval period.