A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c29.352

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according to B.R. Modak (1993: 24, 292), who refers to Atharvavedapariśiṣṭa 49.1.3 (this passage, however, describes āyurveda as the upaveda of the Brahmaveda, a later name for the Atharvaveda; see: R.N Dandekar, 1976); compare the Atharvavedakhaṇḍa of the Caraṇavyūha (ed. 1938), where the āyurveda is the upaveda of the Ṛgveda (this is confirmed by A. Weber, 1855: 280); see also W. Siegling (1906: 31), who says that the āyurveda is the upaveda of the Ṛgveda in the Caraṇavyūha of the Yajurvedapariśiṣṭa, but of the Atharvaveda in the Atharvavedapariśiṣṭa. Āyurveda is simply one of the four upavedas in the Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa (Anuṣaṅgapāda 35.87–89; see G.V. Tagare, 1983: 349). Compare on āyurveda and the Vedas: Ṛgvidhāna 5.2.4 (see J. Gonda, 1951: 125).