On what became of the Carakasaṃhitā after Dṛḍhabala’s revision* P HILIPP A. MAAS University of Vienna, Austria Keywords: Agniveśatantra, Carakasaṃhitā, Caraka, Dṛḍhabala, Sanskrit tex- tual criticism, Stemmatics Ever since the early days of Indology it is well-known that the oldest classical Āyurveda work in Sanskrit, the Carakasaṃhitā (between about 100 B.C.E. and C.E. 200, according to HIML IA/114), contains two accounts of its own early textual history. 1 In Siddhisthāna 12.36cd-12.38a, according to Trikamji’s third, * Work on this paper has been generously supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in the context of FWF projects P17300-G03 (“Philosophy and Medicine in Early Classi- cal India I”) and P19866-G15 (“Philosophy and Medicine in Early Classical India II”). The present paper was originally read at the symposium “Āyurveda in Post-classical and Pre-Colonial India”, at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden on 9 July 2009. I would like to thank Susanne Kammüller for having checked the English of this presentation and Dominik Wujastyk for his valuable comments on an earlier version of the present paper. I am deeply indebted to the following institutions for having liberally provided these projects with copies of manuscripts of the Carakasaṃhitā Vimānasthāna: B.J. Institute of Learning and Research (Ahmedabad), Bhogilal Leherchand Institute of Indology (Alipur), Ganganath Jha Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha (Allahabad), Rajas- than Oriental Research Institute (Alwar, Bikaner, Kota, and Udaipur Branch), Oriental Institute (Baroda), Asiatic Society of Bombay, Trinity College Library (Cambridge), Lal Chand Research Library (Chandigarh), Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum (Jaipur), Raghunath Temple Library (Jammu), Gujarat Ayurved University Library (Jamnagar), Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project (Kathmandu and Berlin), Asiatic So- ciety (Kolkata), Calcutta Sanskrit College (Kolkata), National Library (Kolkata), India Oice Library (London), Oriental Research Institute (Mysore), Anandashram (Pune), Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (Pune), Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, Benares eJournal of Indian Medicine Volume 3 (2010), 1–22