[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of Indian Medical Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.meulenbeld-1999) › v1.c19.8 # A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c19.8 A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c19.8 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.meulenbeld-1999.v1.c19.8) 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 - [Previous: v1.c19.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.meulenbeld-1999.v1.c19.7) - [Next: v1.c19.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.meulenbeld-1999.v1.c19.9) - [Up: v1.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.meulenbeld-1999.v1.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.meulenbeld-1999.v1.c19.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.meulenbeld-1999.v1.c19.8) · Pramāṇa