Medical allusions in some inscriptions of Andhra Pradesh.

The non-medical literature and epigraphical and archaeological sources provide, though rarely, valuable information pertaining to history of medicine. Only limited efforts have been made either by the historians or by the scholar-physicians to study the non-medical literature, epigraphical and archaeological sources with a medico-historical view. The scholar-physicians of Ayurveda in India did not have special interest to study the historical background of the medical science in India apart from the medical texts.