A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c63.336

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79 See E. Haas (1876a): 634. The Ma'din al-Shifā'-i-Sikandar-Shāhī, also called Ṭibb-i-Sikandarī, was composed in A.D. 1512 by Miyān Bhūwah, son of Khawās Khān, who dedicated his work to Sultan Sikandar Lodī (A.D. 1489–1517; see on him: Hameed-ud-Din, 1980a: 142–147). This medical treatise, written in Persian, was based on several Sanskrit works (since the author held Greek medicine to be unsuitable to the constitutions of Indians). Suśruta, Caraka, Jāmīkaraṇ (probably Jatukarṇa), Bhoja, Bheda, Vāgbhaṭa, Rasaratnākara, Śārṅgadhara, Vaṅgasena, Cintāmaṇi, Mādhavanidāna, Cakradatta, and Gayadatta are mentioned in the introduction; the author refers in the body of his work to a Yogamuktāvalī and a treatise called Rasmotajarbati. See on this work: M. Azeez