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“The First And The Foremost Famous Vedic Poet Of The Period Was Bhardwaja Vajineya. He Was The Contemporary Of Divodasa, Prastoka Saranjaya And Abhyavartin, Cayamana And Consequently Of Dasaratha. His Sons Were Garga And Payu. Ram Dasarathi Repair To His Hermitage On His Way Back From Lanka. He Was The Purohits Of Divodasa, Gave Pratardana Daivodasi His Kingdom And Ksattrasri Pratardani Was His Yajamana. He Was One Of The Rsis Of The Vedic Age, Who Prohibited He Slaughter Of Cows In Sacrifices Simply Out Of Gratitude To The Bovine Race Which Showers On Mankind Kindness In The Form Of Milk. Bhardwaja Loved The Cows So Very Deeply That He Did Not Hesitate To Identify Them With Indra, His Diety.”

The Above Is Evidently The Account Of Bhardwaja That We Have Just Studied In The Foregoing Pages As Described By An Orient List. That Bhardwaja Loves The Cow And Identified Them With The Indra Is How We May Understand If We Take The Word ‘go’ To Mean Cow, Cow Is Primarily Light Or Knowledge. That He Identified Knowledge With Indra Is Easily Understandable When We Know That He Received His Ayurveda From Indra, The Fountain Head Of Knowledge, And The King Of The Immortals.

Later On In Mahabharata We Hear Of Bhardwaja, The Father Of Drona, The Famous Teacher Of The Kauravas In Archery.

Now We Shall Deal With The Account Of The Various Other Persons Bearing The Name Of The Bhardwaja That We Met In Caraka Samhita, So That There May Be No Mistake And Confusion Regarding The One Great Bhardwaja, The First Propagator Of The Science Of Life On Earth And The Great Seer That Was Among The Bringers Of The Solar Fire And That Approached Indra For The Ayurveda, As The Messenger Of The Sages.

In The Caraka Samhita We Have Another Bhardwaja, Known As The Kumarasira And Yet Another That Takes Parts In The Learned Discussion With Atreya. The Context In Which The Names Of These Two Persons Appear Leaves No Doubt Regarding Their Different Identity From The Great Bhardwaja.

There Are Three Places In The Caraka Samhita Where The Bhardwaja With The Title Of Kumarasira Is Mentioned.

This Is Perhaps A Nick Name Bestowed On That Particular Bhardwaja For His History That In The Course Of Development Of The Fetus The Head Is The First Part To Manifest Itself. Or It Is Also Likely That He Had A Head Bigger In Size Than Is Usual And Resembling The Head In An Infant, In Whom The Head Is Very Large In Proportion To The Rest Of The Body. Or It Is Equally Likely That He Had An Infantile Head In Proportions To His Adult Body And Was Hence Known As Kumarasira “One Having A Boy’s Head‘. But We Know For Certain That He Propounded The Theory Of The Emergence Of The Head First In The Fetus Before Other Parts, And His Theory Might Have Earned Him The Lasting Epithet Of Kumarasira.

‘it Is The Head That First Develops In The Womb,’ Thus Views Kumarasira Bhardwaja”.

He Participates In The Discussion On The Actions Of Vata And Again In The Significant Discussion On The Number Of Tastes. He Propounds That Tastes Are Only Five In Number.

“Hearing This Statement, Bhardwaja, The Kumarasira Said, ‘it Is Even As Your Honour Has Said; Such, To Be Sure, Are The Characteristics Of Vata. It Is By The Repeated Use Of Such Like Qualities, Such Like Substance And Actions Of Such Like Potencies That Vata Becomes Excited. For, Verily, The Increasing Factors Of The Body Elements Is The Repeated Use Of Homologous Things.”

“Bhardwaja Known Also As Kumarasira Then Said, ‘There Are Five Tastes;……..”

Thus We Find A Bhardwaja Kumarsira, Quite Quite Distinct From The Great Originator Of The Science On Earth And Described In The Beginning Of The Caraka Samhita.

There Is Another Person By The Name Of Bhardwaja, Who Is Great Scholar Taking Part In The Learned Discussion Of The Sages And Propounding The Theory Of Nature Or The Innate Quality Of Things As The Cause Of Man As Well As Of His Diseases.

“to This Is The Sage Bhardwaja Said- ‘no. For The Doer Always Precedes The Deed. Nor Have We Any Valid Knowledge Of Action That Has Not Been Performed, Whereof It May Be Said That An Individual Is The Result. Nature Alone Is The Cause, Then, Of Both Man And His Diseases Just As Roughness, Fluidity, Mobility And Heat Are Respectively The Nature Of The Earth, Water And Fire”.

“No! Said Bhardwaja To This. For What Reason Did He Say So? Because Neither Mother Nor Father, Neither The Spirit Nor Concordance, Nor Yet The Use Of Drinks Or Foods That Are Eaten, Masticated Or Licked Up, In Fact, Bring About The Conception. Nor Does A Mind, Coming From Another World, Enter Into The Embryo.”

In The Latter Part Of Sarira Sthana, Chapter-Iii, A Bhardwaja Asks The Teacher Atreya A Number Of Questions. This Bhardwaja Seems To Be Merely A Student Who Goes On Asking Questions, And Evidently A Different Person From The Learned Bhardwaja Of The Earlier Part Of The Chapter, Who Has Authoritative Views Of His Own.

“How Is The Embryo Integrated? Why Does The Embryo Emerge In The Shape Of Man? Why Are Those, Sprung Of The Idiotic Blind Unlike The Parents.?”

In The Kasyapa Samhita There Is A Reference To Krsna Bhardwaja, Who May Be A Son Of Bhardwaja.

“There Are Four Kinds Of Diseases: Exogenous, Those Born Of Vata, Those Born Of Pita And Those Born Of Kapha; So Says Krsna Bhardwaja”.

It Is Necessary To Mention While Yet On This Subject, That There Are A Few Works Come Down In The Name Of Bhardwaja.

1.Bhavaprakasa Ascribes To Bhardwaja A Regular Treatise On Medicine From Which The Other Sages Studied And Learnt The Qualities And Action Of Substances.

2.There Seems To Have Been Current A Book Entitled Bhardwajiyam , Meaning The Book On The System Of Bhardwaja.

3.Bhesaja-Kalpa Is Another Book Ascribed To Him Dealing With The Pharmaceutics And Treatment Of Fevers. A Commentary Of This Work Is Also Available.

There Are A Few Recipes Too Bearing Bhardwaja’s Name, Being Perhaps Propounded By Him.

The Following Recips Bear The Name Of Bhardwaja (Brhat Phalaghrta) And (Phalaghrta)
In Conclusion, It Is Necessary To Repeat That The Great Mass And Variety Of Evidence That We Have Reviewed, Leave No Doubt Regarding The Existence And Accomplishments Of This Great Sages And Father Of Medicine. There Must Have Been Lesser Persons Bearing His Name Who Have Been Played Some Part In The History Of The Cultural Evolution Of The Indo Aryan People; But The Proto Type, The Bhardwaja That Brought Down The Science Of Medicine And Of Life, Known As Ayurveda. No Account Of The Evolution Of Medicine In India Can Afford To Ignore This Hallowed Name, If It Should Be Faithful To The Inscribed Chronicles Of Racial History. It Is Only After A Full Cognizance Of His Greatness And Significance That We Can Pass On To Consider The Lives And Achievements Of Other Teachers And Propagators Of Medicine, In The Land Of The Aryans.

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