Hindu Medicine c7.142

c7.142

Then, Dhanvantari taught them the sacred knowledge of longevity which forms part of the fourth Veda, the Atharva-Veda, as it was laid down by Brahmā, the Self-born God, before he brought forth the universe and all creatures. His teaching was contained in a thousand lessons and a hundred thousand double verses. Brahmā, after having created this wisdom, bethought himself of the brief span of man’s life and of the limitations of the human mind; whereupon he epitomized it in eight books.