“The medicine of Sushruta is considerably older than the ninth century; and the grammar of Panini probably precedes Christianity.”

—  Pāṇini

Horace Hayman Wilson in: The Vishńu Puráńa: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition https://books.google.co.in/books?id=rpVTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR38, J. Murray, 1840, p. 38.

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