Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c8.44

c8.44

In Bhavaprakāśa, Ātreya with his six disciples appears (as in Caraka) after the Gods, then Bharadvāja, then Caraka who elaborated the books of Agniveśa and his associates, then Dhanvantari who was king of Banaras (Kāśirāja), lastly Suśruta who, inspired by Dhanvantari, wrote a text-book which is called Suśruta, because it is *sūrutam*. The Prasthānabheda also mentions Caraka as the first of the human authors, whose eight *sthānas* it knows, then it also mentions Suśruta who wrote a book in five *sthānas*³. Much simpler is the account in the first medical work of the Bower MS which puts this work in the mouth of the sage Kāśirāja who was questioned on the nature of garlic by Suśruta botanising in the Himalayas along with nine companions, among whom there were Ātreya and Bheja.