A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c9.s1.137

v1.c9.s1.137

Next to the Charaka and the Susruta, the medical authority, who is held in the highest estimation throughout India, is Vāgbhaṭa, the author of Aṣṭāṅgahṛidaya (lit. heart or the kernel of the eight limbs or divisions of the Ayurveda). Indeed, in many parts of the Deccan the very names of Charaka and Susruta were forgotten, and Vāgbhaṭa is looked up to as a revealed author, and this is one of the reasons which led Haas to conclude that the former succeeded, and owed their inspiration to, the latter¹ (see *ante* p. xxxiii).