wrote treatises on grammar, medicine and yoga. This has been memorialised in a verse by Bhoja at the start of his commentary on the Yogasutras called Rajamarttanda (11th century), and the following verse found in Shivarama's 18th-century text:

This tradition is discussed by Meulenbeld who traces this "relatively late" idea back to Bhoja (11th century), who was perhaps influenced by a verse by Bhartrhari (ca. 5th century) that speaks of an