A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c19.8

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Another version³⁰ relates that Brahmā, wounded by Rāhu, and remembering the medical teachings of the Buddha, composed a medical treatise called Gso-dpyad ḥbum-pa. He taught it to his disciple Skye-dguḥi bdag-po myur-ba³¹ and to the Aśvins;³² the Aśvins handed it down to Indra, Indra to Rgyun-śes-kyi bu.³³ The science passed, successively, from Rgyun-śes-kyi bu to Thaṅ-la-ḥbar, Dkaḥ-gñis-spyod, Mu-khyud-ḥjin, Bśol-ḥgro-skyed, Me-bźin-ḥjug, Lug-nag,³⁴ and Rgya-skegs-sna.³⁵ Each of these eight wrote a commentary called Ca-ra-ka sde-brgyad. Through these great divine sages (devarṣi), the science of medicine came down from the gods to the human world, to the king of Benares; it was called the divine Brāhma system.36