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Atreya
The Great Teacher Of Kaya-Cikitsita Or Medicine Is Krsna Atreya According To Mahabharata.
The Caraka Samhita, The Greatest Of The Works On Medicine Purports To Be The Final Embodiment Of Atreya’s Teaching. Every Chapter Opens With The Words ‘thus Spake The Worshipful Atreya’.
Agnivesha And Other Disciples Are Greatly Attached To Him And Hold Him In Supreme [...]

That Caraka Merely Revised And Redacted An Old Treatise Dose Not Detract From His Greatness. The Ingenious Method Of Redaction He Adoped, Has Lent A Touch Of Freshness And Original; And Though Caraka Is Technically Only A Redactor, He Must Be Given Credit For Modifying The Old Work And Transforming It By His Magic Touch, [...]

Agnivesa And Bhela Studied At The Same Master’s Feet And Hence We Find Great Similarity In Their Works. But Bhela Samhita Is More Concise And There Is More Prose In It Than In His Distinguished Co-Student’s Treatise. The Bhela Samhita As Handed Down To Us Seems To Be Of Quite Old Composition. Unfortunately The Treactise [...]