The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c6.4

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¹ Suśr., *Sūtr.*, 1, 3 (...*āyurveda nāma yad upāṅgam atharvavedasya*...), cf. also Caraka, *Sūtr.*, XXX, 20, where it is said that "the doctor should show respect to the *Atharva-veda*, which among the four Vedas, belongs properly to him." (*bhiṣajā...vedānām ātmano’ tharvavede bhaktir ādeśyā*). In Suśr., *Sūtr.*, XXXIV, 6, it is said that "Brahman has given the name of *āyurveda* to that part of the Veda which has eight parts." (*Brahmā vedāṅgam aṣṭāṅgam āyurvedam abhāṣata*) and the same passage, in verse 4, says that "the *Atharvaveda* announces hundred and one deaths" (*ekottaram mṛtyuśatam atharvāṇaḥ pracakṣate*); This is an allusion to *AV*, VIII, 2, 28 which, in effect, refers to "a hundred and one deaths."