work as well as the now passée style of attributing metaphorical fatherhood to male innovators.

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The early scholar Rudolf Hoernle proposed that some concepts from the Susruta-Samhita could be found in the Satapatha-Brahmana, which he dated to the 600 BCE. However, during the last century, scholarship on the history of Indian medical literature has advanced substantially, and firm evidence has accumulated that the Susruta-samhita is a work of several historical layers. Its composition

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