A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c30.899

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109 A.S.U.50.209. 110 Ātreya, not Atri, is mentioned according to A. Rahman (STMI 258). 111 P. Cordier (1902): 180. 112 P. Cordier (1902): 180. 113 Buddhacarita 1.43. 114 See Hāritasamhitā. 115 See: Kṛṣṇātreya. 116 See: bhikṣu Ātreya. 117 R. Śāstrī (1977): 401. G. Hāldār (Vṛddhatrayī 75) regards Dattātreya as a brother of Ātreya. 118 See C. Vogel (1965). 119 A variant, occasionally found in P. Cordier's writings, is Rgyun-śes ryi bu (P.Cordier, 1902: 179, 180), but usually he gives Rgyun-śes-kyi bu, the Tibetan equivalent of Ātreya as the son (bu) of Atri (Rgyun-śes) (P.Cordier, 1901a: 81; 1903: 619; 1903a: 608-609). The correlation between Rgyun-śes, 'the always knowing one' and Atri is obscure (C.Vogel, 1965: 47); P. Cordier asserted (1902: 179-180) that Rgyun-śes corresponds to amitabuddhi in Sanskrit. Some Tibetan texts referring to the ṛṣi Ātreya (draṅ-sroṅ rgyun-śes-kyi bu) are the Cha-lag bco-brgyad of G-yu-thog-pa Yon-tan-mgon-po and the Thob-yig of Kloṅ-rdol Bla-ma (M. Taube, 1981: 9, 28). According to a Tibetan tradition, Rgyun-śes-kyi bu, together with seven more descendants of the Devas with a human mother, composed one medical work each, which they had heard from Indra; this collection of eight medical treatises is known as Rća-ra-ka sde-brgyad (Rechung, 1973: 12). Hjam-mgon koṅ-sprul blo-gros mthaḥ-yas (A.D. 1813-1899) relates, following another tradition in his Śes-bya kun-khyab, that Indra transmitted Brahmā's Gso-dpyad ḥbum-pa, i.e., the 100,000 (verses) on medicine, to Rgyun-śes bu (Ātreya) and some others; thereupon, Ātreya composed a large medical work called Chaṅs-pa-ḥi bśad-pa bsdus-pa, i.e., Brahmā's concise exposition, which he taught to Me-bźin ḥjug (Agniveśa) and other pupils; each of these pupils then wrote his own treatise (see P. Tsering, 1980). 120 Compare: Atri and Hāritasamhitā; see also various anonymous works. 121 See: Hāritasamhitā. 122 R. Śāstrī (1977): 401. Sūramcandra (1978): I, 195-197. O.P. Jaggi (IV, 20) mentions both Ātreyasamhitā and Hāritasamhitā as now lost treatises on kāyacikitsā. 123 See: quotations from Ātreya, etc. 124 NCC II, 68. 125 NCC II, 68. Check-list Nr. 79. 126 NCC II, 66-67 and X, 27. R. Mitra's Notices I, Nr. 202. Ṭoḍara quotes Ātreya on the characteristics of the pulse (Ṭoḍara II: 6.25). 127 NCC II, 66-67. 128 The Uttarakārikā is quoted ad vamana 16; Ātreya's Uttarakārikā ad anuvāsana 33. 129 See: Hāritasamhitā. 130 Examples are Gopāladāsa Vādīndra's Cikitsāsāra, the Haṃsarājanidāna, Jayaratna's Jvaraparājaya, Ṭoḍara's Āyurvedasaukhya. 131 Gaurana's Navanāthacaritra, a Telugu work, refers to Ātreya as an alchemist and pupil of Nāgārjuna (P. Hymavathi, 1993: 280). 132 Ṭoḍara II: 2.205 = Su.Śa.4.79. 133 Ṭoḍara III: 3.114. 134 See: Hāritasamhitā. Dharmaśāstra works should also be taken into consideration; compare the Laghvismṛti and Vṛddhatreyasmṛti mentioned by P.V. Kane (I.1, 263).