Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c5.4

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2. Ātreya, the Physician. Ātreya was not so much a surgeon as a physician. He is said to have had six pupils; and his teaching of medicine is said to have been committed to writing by all six in the form of a Samhitā, or Compendium. It may, therefore, antecedently, be expected that we shall find their six medical compendia to agree in all essential points. At present, however, no more than two of them are known to us. These are the Compendia of Agniveśa and Bheḍa (or Bheḷa).