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The Sausrutam referred here may not be the Susruta Samhita found these days, as no annotations from Sausrutam are found in Susruta Samhita available these days, though there are references in Pouskalavatatantra pointing to Susruta Samhita. Opinions from Pouskalavatatantra has been stated as 'Pouskalavata ityuktah' in the detailed study of Sausrutam by the narrator Cakrapani. Nevertheless, no references from Karavirya tantra and Aurabhra tantra are found anywhere. None of the Indian epics depicts Pouskalavata. It can be assumed that such a name would have evolved from a province named Pouskalavatam. It is described in Visnupurana as also in Valmiki Ramayana that the Pouskalavatam was created by Pouskala, the son of Bharata. It is also found that Puskalavata is described as the capital of Gandhara. It is also said that puskalavatham was a province somewhere in the eastern parts of India. It has been found that Greek scholars like Arian, Ptolemy etc. who visited India during the conquest of Alexander the Great, describes the Gandhara province, which is situated quite near from the Sindhu Civilization as 'Penkalitis' and it is 133

also stated that this is then the Sanskrit translation of Puskalavata. Hence, it can be assumed that an acharya who lived around these parts could be Pouskalavathan.