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INTRODUCTION
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digestion of food?. This also resembles the one found in the Ayurvedic Samhitās and might have been borrowed from the same sources.
On the other hand, there is much similarity in the enumeration of the various kinds of diseases, the manifold items of food and their different categories4 which is an outcome of the direct influence of the descriptions found in the above works5.
1. SBh, pp. 42-3. . 2. Caraka, p. 222; Susruta, pp. 261, 263. 3. SBh., pp. 43-4. 4. Ibid., p. 64. 5. On this point the reader is referred to our article submitted to the
International Sanskrit conference, New Delhi, 1972, ‘Buddhist Sanskrit works and Āyurveda'.
