Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v2.c10.192

v2.c10.192

Other scholars have confused the physician Mankah al-Hindī, who is alleged to have traveled from India to Iraq and to have translated Shānāq (Cāṇakya) from an Indian language into Persian or Arabic in the time of Hārūn al-Rashīd (see Ibn abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ, Bayrūt ed., vol. 3, pp. 51–52), with Kankah, to whom then medical writings are attributed (see Ibn abī Uṣaybiʿa, vol. 3, p. 49). Finally, pure fancy has produced an alchemist, Kankah al-Hindī, whose fantastic exploits are recounted by pseudo-al-Majrīṭī in his Ghāyat al-ḥakīm (ed. pp. 278 sqq., trans. pp. 285 sqq.).