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recognise the authenticity of a passage, because an ancient commentator, Jejjata, has not noticed it.[1]

Haas on the age of SusrutaWe have been at some pains in arriving at an approximate age of the composition of the Susruta, because attempts have been made now and then by a certain school of European scholars to prove that the medical works of the Hindus are of comparatively recent date. Haas has propounded the bold and astounding theory that the systematic development of Hindu medicine took place between the tenth and sixteenth centuries A. D.[2] We
  1. अनार्षोऽयं योगः, जेज्जटाचार्य्येण नोक्तत्वात्। तस्मान्न पठनीयम्।
    Chikitsita. VII. 3.

    Many such instances may be cited. For the purity of the text we are much indebted to these commentators.
  2. Kehren wir nunmehr wieder zur historischen Frage zurück, so konnen wir jetzt einen Anfangs—und einen Endpunkt aufstellen, zwischen welche wir mit einiger Sicherheit das Entstehen der systematischen Wissenschafft der Medizin bei den Indiern verlegen müssen, nämlich den Zietraum von der Mitte des 10. bis Zur Mitte des 15. ]ahrhunderts.—"Ueber die Ursprünge der Indischen Medizin, mit besonderem Bezug auf Susruta." "Zeit. deut. morg. Ges." XXX. p. 642.