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Patanjali also writes with a light touch. For example, his comment on the conflicts between the orthodox Brahminic (''Astika'') groups, versus the heterodox, ''nAstika'' groups ([[Buddhism]], [[Jainism]], and atheists) seems relevant for religious conflict even today: the hostility between these groups was like that between a [[mongoose]] and a snake.<ref>[[Romila Thapar]], Interpreting Early India. Oxford University Press, 1992, p.63</ref> He also sheds light on contemporary events, commenting on the recent [[Greeks|Greek]] incursion, and also on several tribes that lived in the Northwest regions of the subcontinent.

 

Patanjali is also the reputed author of a medical text called ''Patanjalah'', also called ''Patanjala'' or ''Patanjalatantra''.<ref name=HIML/><ref>{{cite book|author=Surendranath Dasgupta|title=A History of Indian Philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PoaMFmS1_lEC&pg=PA231|year=1992|publisher=Reprint: Motilal Banarsidass (Original: Cambridge University Press)|isbn=978-81-208-0412-8|page=231}}</ref> This text is quoted in many yoga and health-related Indian texts. Patanjali is called a medical authority in a number of Sanskrit texts such as ''Yogaratnakara'', ''Yogaratnasamuccaya'', ''Padarthavijnana'', ''Cakradatta bhasya''.<ref name=HIML/> Some of these quotes are unique to ''Patanjala'', but others are also found in major Hindu medical treatises such as ''[[Charaka Samhita]]'' and ''[[Sushruta Samhita]]''.<ref name=HIML/>