Hindu Medicine c7.157

c7.157

The text of these formulae is practically identical with parallel passages in Caraka’s compilation, but no reference is made to Caraka. One might presume that the compilation preserved in the Bower Manuscript represents another tradition, parallel to Caraka’s and Bhela’s classic tradition, through which part of the common pre-classic stock of teaching, carried on by the school of Ātreya, was handed down.