Hindu Medicine c7.148

c7.148

Thus the “ condensed ” wisdom unfolded, and one of the saints, Punarvasu Ātreya (i. e. the descendant of Atri), out of compassionate love for all beings, taught the “ Wisdom of Long Life ” to six disciples. Agniveśa, Bhela (or Bheḍa), Jātukarṇa, Parāśara, Hārīta and Kṣārapāṇi received this oral instruction. There was no difference in the saint’s teaching, but a diversity of intelligence among his pupils, therefore Agniveśa was the first to compile an encyclopedic treatise. The other five disciples also wrote treatises and, when the six works were recited before an assembly of seers headed by Punarvasu, they agreed that all the books had been duly compiled.