The editor says some medical authors are known from before Samantabhadra: they lived in the…

The editor says some medical authors are known from before Samantabhadra: they lived in the second or third century BCE at Hāḍaḷḷi near Gerasappā in Honnāvar tāluk of Kārwār district, practising austerities on its two hills, Indragiri and Candragiri, which still bear archaeological remains that the editor inspected; these sages composed medical works. Samantabhadra himself writes in the Siddhānta Rasāyana Kalpa that a Jain sage dwells on the Bhallātaka hill, and calls his science of rasa bound in the sūtras of the Jain āgama, from which the editor infers that works on the subject existed before him and that those earlier sages did special work in Ayurveda. A footnote says the Bhaṭṭāraka colophons call Hāḍaḷḷi Saṅgītapura, since in Kannada hāḍu means song and haḷḷi village.

Why it is kept for review: Jain medical tradition (the earliest medical authors and their setting).

वे क्रि. पू. दूसरे-तीसरे शतमान में हुए हैं अैर वे कारवार जिल्ला, होौावर तालुका के गेरसप्या के पास हाडळ्ळि2 में रहते थे।