Dear Harry,
regarding early Ayurveda (before Vāgbhaṭa) I can add the the following:
* Only the Suśrutasaṃhitā mentions Dhanvantari regularly but this is a
secondary development. As this article shows, his role was augmented
only from around the 9th century onward:
https://www.academia.edu/56668282.
* According to the sources, mantras do play a minor role in early
Ayurveda. For example, in the whole Suśrutasaṃhitā I could find only
17 passages directly referring to mantras, only 9 of them quote
specific mantras.
* Addressed deities include Śiva/Rudra, Brahmā, Viṣṇu, the Aśvins,
Agni, Varuṇa, Vāyu, Soma, etc., but not Dhanvantari.
Thus, mantras addressing Dhanvantari are very likely a later development
or originate in other (maybe tantric) healing traditions.
For more details, you can take a look at this workshop paper on
Medication or Magic? Mantras in Early Āyurveda
<https://www.academia.edu/79051821/> which I presented earlier this year
at the mantra workshop in Vienna. At the moment, I am preparing a more
comprehensive article on the same topic, but it is still work in progress.
Best wishes,
Vitus
Am 25.10.22 um 16:55 schrieb Harry Spier via INDOLOGY:
Dear list members,
Firstly thank you to Dominik Haas who found a reference in a modern
womans travel journal to India. Other than that I was extremely
surprised that I couldn't find any mantras in any written sources to
Dhanvantari. I searched GRETIL, the Muktabodha digital library, and
the Kyoto Archive of Sanskrit Texts (Michio Yano and colleagues) .
There were lots of references to dhanvantarI (dhanvantarir uvAca
etc.) but as far as I could see no mantras to him (of course its
possible I missed them).
Any supposition about why these are so rare (non-existent?) in written
sources but all over the internet. In ayurveda is it other deities
that are used in healing mantras? Or even better if the ayurvedic
experts could point me to any mantras to dhanvantari (or other
deities) used in healing.
Thanks again,
Harry Spier
On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 4:36 PM Harry Spier
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dear list members,
I was asked to find gayatrī mantras to the god of healing
Dhanvantari (but with a source). I'm able to find lots of mantras
(including gayatrī mantras) on youtube and the internet but they
don't give a source.
Ideally would be a gayatri mantra with a scriptural source (some
ayurvedic text?) but acceptable would be some modern book
collection of mantras etc. And even some shloka or non-gayatri
mantra in a text asking for healing from Dhanvantari would also be
acceptable.
Thanks,
Harry Spier
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