It retained its great reputation as an authoritative text not only in India but even abroad as can be judged by its translation into other languages and many commentaries.
Date of the Treatise
Researcher entitled for reliable opinion have fixed 700 A.D., or near about as the date of Madhava Nidana based on the following points.
Madhava Nidana comprises of large number of verses borrowed from Astanga Hrdaya of Vagbhata, which was composed by 600 A.D. So Madhavakar period is later than 600 A.D.
2. Vrnda , the author of Siddhayoga whose date is 800 A.D., or near about is the first person to have implemented the order of sequence of diseases as found in Madhava Nidana. Hence, Madhava Nidana should be earlier to 800 A.D.
3. Harun-al-Rashid, the Abbasid caliph of Persia (768-809 A.D.) got many Indian Medical works translated into Arabic language by the scholars of his court. Ali-bin-Sahl-Rabban-al-Tabari, a Persian physician in his book Firdaus-al-Hikma (Paradise of Wisdom) written in 849-850 A.D., mentions some such Indian Medical works Viz. Astanqhrdy which stand for Caraka, Susruta, Nidana and Astanga Hrdaya respectively. Tabari had made use of these books. Al-Razi (who died in 925 A.D.) in his, Kitab-al-Hawi mentions an Indian book by name Badan.
Ibn-abi-Usaybia (who died in 1270 A.D.) in his book `Uyun-al-anba-fitabaqat-al-Fitabaqat (History of Physicians) mentions the book Badan and states that it describes 404 diseases.
Al-Yaqubi, the Arab historian of the 9th cent. A.D. also mentions Badan. The term "Badan or Badan" has been taken as equivalent to the Sanskrit term Nidan.
Based on the above, majority of the scholars agree that Nidan known to Arabs is none other than Madhava Nidana.
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