A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.s8.18

v1.c23.s8.18

The Bhaviṣyapurāṇa tells about a Dhanvantari who was an incarnation of Sūrya; this Dhanvantari, born in Kāśī as the son of the brāhmaṇa Kalpadatta, became a follower of Kṛṣṇacaitanya and wrote a treatise called Kalpaveda. He chose Suśruta, the son of a king, as one of his pupils; Suśruta composed, on the model of the Kalpaveda, his own medical work, a book in one hundred chapters, with the title Sauśrutatantra.¹⁸