History of Indian Medicine, containing Notices, Biographical and Bibliographical, of the Ayurvedic Physicians and their Works on Medicine v2.c19.s2.1

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The sage Atri with his wife Anasūyā lived in a hermitage in the forest on the south of the Citra-Kuṭa mountain. It is told in the Rāmāyaṇa that when Sītā visited them, Anasūyā gave Sītā an ointment which was to keep her beautiful for ever. (See Dowson’s Hindu Mythology, p. 15.) Anasūyā was the mother of the sage Dūrvāsā, the ascetic Dattātreya and Soma, the Moon.