Hindu Medicine c7.129

c7.129

Its companions fled and turned to the mighty snake-king Vāsuki, who, when he heard of this outrage, dispatched against Dhanvantari and his pupils certain other famous snake-princes with a countless host of poisonous snakes. The pupils, by the breath of the advancing snakes, were struck lifeless. Dhanvantari, however, centering his mind on his spiritual teacher Garuḍa, by the power of incantations, rained the elixir of immortality on his pupils and restored their bodies to life. The serpents, in turn, he paralyzed by magic spells, so that not one was left to report to their lord.