![]() ![]() Now about the characteristic features of each of these branches of the Science of the Ayurveda The Salya-Tantra:. But then he thought of the small duration of human life on earth, and the failing character of human memory, and found it prudent to divide the whole of the Ayurveda into eight different branches such as, the Salya-Tantra, the Salakya-Tantra, the Kaya-Chikitsa, the Bhuta-Vidya, the Kaumar-Bhritya, the Agada-Tantra, the Rasayana-Tantrani and the Vajīkarana-Tantra. (which forms the subject of our present discourse), originally formed one of the subsections of the Atharva Veda and even before the creation of mankind, the self-begotten Brahma strung it together into a hundred thousand couplets (Shlokas), divided into a thousand chapters. All of you are worthy of the honour of true pupilship or tutelage.” The Ayurveda “Welcome to all of you to this blissful hermitage. ![]() To them, thus replied the holy Dhanvantari:. Bliss in this life and hereafter, is in the gift of this eternal Ayurveda, and for this, O Lord, we have made bold to approach thee as thy humble disciples.” ![]() “O Sire, it grieves us much to find men, though otherwise well befriended by their kin and relations, falling a prey to diseases, mental, physical, traumatic, or natural, and piteously wailing in agony like utterly friendless creatures on earth and we supplicate thee, O Lord, to illumine our minds with the truths of the Eternal Ayurveda (Medical Science) so that we may faithfully discharge the duties allotted to us in life, and alleviate the sufferings of humanity at large. Once upon a time, when the holy Dhanvantari, the greatest of the mighty celestials, incarnated in the form of Divodasa, the king of Kasi, was blissfully seated, in his hermitage, surrounded by a concourse of holy Rishis Aupadhenava, Vaitarana, Aurabhra, Paushkalavata, Karavirya, Gopura-rakshita, Sushruta and others addressed him as follows:. Well, we shall now describe the origin of the Science of Medicine, as disclosed by the holy Dhanvantari to his disciple Sushruta. ![]()
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