An Indian physician who was invited to Baghdad to treat Hārūn al-Rashīd. He was then appointed to a translation bureau for translating Sanskrit works.
Martin Levey, Ibn al-Wahshiya's Book of Poisons, Kitāb al-Sumûm: Studies in the History of Arabic Pharmacology II, Journal of the History of Medicine (Oct 1963), p. 373. He (Manka, Manīkya) translated a Kitâb al-Sumûm from Indian language into Persian (it was later translated again into Arabic).
He was ordered to translate the Book of Sarsad (here identified as Suśruta Samhitā). Guy Attewell, Islamic Medicines: Perspectives on the Greek Legacy in the History of Islamic Medical Traditions in West Asia, contained in: H. Selin, ed., Medicine across Cultures: History & Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Kluwer Academic Publishers (2003), pp. 325-350, at p. 340.
