Hindu Medicine c7.155

c7.155

This precious document is named after the British Lieutenant, A. Bower, who discovered it in 1890, in a Buddhist monument at Kutchā, Chinese Turkestan. On palaeographic evidence it is assigned to the second half of the fourth century A. D.; its contents, however, should go back to a period some centuries earlier than is warranted by the palaeographic character of the manuscript in which they are preserved.