A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Atreya
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History of Indian Medicine (and Ayurveda) [by Shree Gulabkunverba Ayurvedic Society]
Some scholars suggest that he may be Bhikshu Ateya (Bhikshu Atreya) but as we shall see that Bhiksu Atreya was a contemporary of Punarvasu Atreya, even that theory is erroneous. [Carakasamhita Sutrasthana 1.25] [Carakasamhita Sutrasthana 25.24] The person referred to as Bhiksu Atreya in the text of Caraka is not the preceptor of Jivaka. The preceptor of Jivaka if he was at all an Atreya, he must be some other descendant of Atri....
Read full contents: Chapter 4 - The Story of Atreya
Charaka Samhita (English translation) [by Shree Gulabkunverba Ayurvedic Society]
(Thus declared the sage Atreya). 15. At this stage, Bharadvaja said, ‘If the embryo thus arises from the assemblage of various procreative factors, how is it integrated? And granted that the integration is effeccted somehow, why does the embryo, springing as it does from a complex, emerge in the shape of man? Now, man is said to be the offspring of man....
Read full contents: Chapter 3 - The Formation of the Fetus (garbha-avakranti)
Brahma Sutras (Shankara Bhashya) [by Swami Vireshwarananda]
svaminah, phalashruterityatreyah || 44 || svaminah—To the sacrificer; phala-shruteh—from the declaration of results in the Sruti; iti—thus; atreyah—Atreya. 44. To the sacrificer (belongs the agentship in meditations), because the Sruti declares a fruit (for it); thus Atreya (thinks). The question is raised as to who is to observe the meditations connected with subordinate members of sacrificial acts, whether it is the sacrificer or the priest....
Read full contents: Chapter III, Section IV, Adhikarana XIII
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