History of Indian Medicine, containing Notices, Biographical and Bibliographical, of the Ayurvedic Physicians and their Works on Medicine v2.c19.18

v2.c19.18

The Aśvin-Rasāyaṇa as it occurs in the Navanitaka “ implies (v. 781b) that by medical tradition the formula was ascribed to the ancient physician Viśvāmitra, apparently the respected father of Suśruta. That inscription is contradicted, however, by the initial verse (v. 773b) and by the name in the colophon, which attribute the formula to the Asvins,” (I. A., Feb. 14, p. lx).