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The Spirit Of Reverence With Which His Disciples Approach Him As He Is Seated Amidst Sages And Scholars Including Occasionally The Learned Rulers Of Neighboring Kingdoms Or Foreign Scholars And The Finality His Discussions Acquire In The Discussions Among These Sages And Scholars, And Also The Shifting Scene Of Such Assemblies From The Northern Himalayas To The Eastern Part Like Kailasa And The Southern Plains Of Kampilya Are Indubitable Indications Of The Popularity, Wisdom And Supremacy Among His Contemporaries, Of Atreya As A Teacher Of Medicine.

Besides, For Us The Significance Lies In The Stamp Of Methodical And Scientific Exposition, He Imparted To The Mass Of Medical Lore That Perhaps Lay Till Then In Amorphous Heap Of Drugs And Data. The Stage Of Rational And Scientific Medicine Began With Atreya. Though The Concept Of The Three Controlling Forces Of The Body As Of The Universe Is Contained In The Vedic Literature, It Is To Atreya That Medicine Owes It Full Elaboration Of The Tridosa Concept In A Consistent Method And Based On A Logic Elemental Combinations And Physic Chemical Transmutations. With The Theory Of Tastes And Its Influences On Metabolic And Physiological Functions And Its Application In Therapeutics, The Concept Of The Rasa, Guna, Virya And Vipaka And Prabhava Of Drugs, Medicine Passes From The Empirical Stage To A Scientific Stage, Based And Supported On Bio-Physical And Bio-Chemical Concepts.

Though Caraka And Drdhabala May Be Given Credit For The Present Arrangement Of The Various Sections And The Order Of The Chapter Etc, Yet The Essential Rationale Running Through The Entire Length Of The Treatise And Methods Of Therapeutic, Belong To Atreya And Have Been Kept Intact And Perhaps Have Been Embellished By Details Of Illustration By The Redactors.

The Rational Spirit To The Teacher Is So Strong That Even Maladies Which Admitted Of A Religious Or Demoniac Origin And Were Actually Believed To Be Such By Others, Were Put Down By Atreya As Due To Purely Physical And Physiological Causes And To Volitional Transgression And Were Exhorted To Be Treated Like Other Diseases. While Describing Insanity, Atreya Lays Down That Neither The Gods Nor The Demons Have Anything To Do With It And Must Be Known To Result From Wrongful Behavior And Must Be Countered By Suitable Remedies.

“Neither Gods Nor The Gandharvas, Neither The Goblins Nor The Demons, Nor Aught Else, Torment The Man Who Is Not Tormented Of Himself.”

It Is Remarkable That In Similar Fashion Does Hippocrates Of Greece Explain ‘Epilepsy’ Which Till Then Was Named A ‘Sacred Disease’. He Says, ‘It Is Thus With Regard To The Disease Called Sacred. It Appears To Me To Be No Wise More Divine Nor More Sacred Than Other Diseases But Has Natural Cause From Which It Originates Like Other Affections. The Cause Is No Longer Divine But Human.’

It Is Therefore Natural To Surmise That The Time Of Atreya Coincides With That In Which The General Tendency In Indian Life And Thought Became Rational, When Inquiry Into The Original Causes Of Things Was Initiated And Pursued I.E. In The Upanisadic Of The Brahaman Period, That Succeeded The Age Of Revelation And Intuition To Which The Veda Belongs. Thus In The Hey Day Of Indian Speculative Thought, Atreya Taught His Elaborations Of The Theory Od Drug And Disease Are Ushered In The Age Of Scientific Medicine. He Gave It The Frame Work Of A Metaphysic Of Medicine, A Basement Of Theory That Could Sustain The Elaborate Edifice Of Pathology And Therapeutics So Minutely Evolved And Completed At A Time When Humanity In General Was Still Cradled In Its Infancy As Regards Scientific Thought And Practice. Succeeding The Glowing Demi God Bhardwaja, Who Brought Down The Beneficent Lore From The King Of The Gods, Atreya Stands Supreme Among The Teachers Of The Science Of Life Among Men, A Teacher Conspicuous For Sweet Reasonableness, Breadth And Comprehensiveness Of Wisdom As Of Vision And Clarity Of Definitions And Above All, Expert In The Correlating Of Drug To Disease. He Is Thus Supreme As A Therapeutists And Has Earned The Immortal Name Of Being The Originator Of Medicine.

Ateray Is A Name, Immortal In Indian Medicine And Will Remain So As Long As The Science Of Life Is Studied And Practiced In The Light And Spirit Of His Principles And Basic Theory.

His Attachment To Reason And The Happy Results Flowing From Scientific Understanding As Against Fads And Un Reasoned Faith, Which Make For The Ignorance, Is Borne Out By His Exemplary Definition Of Knowledge And Happiness.

“All Suffering, With Its Resort In The Body As Well As In The Mind Has For Its Basis Ignorance, While All Happiness Has Its Foundation In Pure Scientific Knowledge.”

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