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 also we can glean technical terms as used in the Ayurveda, suggesting that a system of medicine existed in his life-time.The very terms Ayurveda and Ayurvedika i.e. expert in the Ayurveda occur in Pánini. We give below a list of some of the technical terms.शिशुक्रन्दयमसभद्वन्द्वेन्द्रजननादिभ्यश्छः ४।३।८८; परिमानान्तस्यासंज्ञाशाणयोः ७।३।१७; खार्य्याः प्राचाम् ५।४।१००; खार्य्या ईकन् ५।१।३३;

We have thus what amounts to positive historical evidence that during the life-time of Buddha and even much earlier the doctrine of humoral pathology and the Ayurvedic method of