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treatment were in vogue.[1]
In the Várttikas of Kátyáyana also (4th to 3rd century B. C.) the three humours of váta (air), pitta (bile) and sleshman (phlegm) are ranked together.[2]
Regarding the age of the Vinaya Text, Rhys Davids and Oldenburg say:
"The Vibhanga and the Twenty Khandhakas were at that time (circa 350 B. C.) already held in such high repute that no one ventured to alter
- ↑ The Jívaka Komárabhachcha, who treats Buddha, derives his surname from "kaumárabhritya," a technical term for one of the eight divisions (astángas) of Ayurveda, meaning treatment of infants. Vide the Mahávagga, pt. 11, p. 174.In Asvaghosha's "Life of Buddha" we also read: "Atri, the Rishi, not understanding the sectional treatise on medicine, afterwards begat Átreya, who was able to control diseases."—Beal's trans. p. 11. This Átreya (Punarvasu) may have been the same sage who taught Agnivesa.
- ↑ Weber's "Hist. Sanks. Lit." p. 266, Eng. trans. ed. 1892.
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