Dhanvantari
Hindu · deity · satya yuga · Recorded classification
He is the patron deity of Ayurveda and the figure a great deal of Indian medical practice is addressed to, which makes him one of the most consequential absences in the corpus's Hindu holdings after the Navagraha. The pot is not recorded in materialCulture, because the treatment gives it as the thing he emerges holding rather than as an attribute, and an items pass would do it better.
Domains
- medicine
Relations
- emerged from the churning with: KurmaIn-batch and deliberately weak. It records that the two belong to one episode and nothing more; there is no interaction between them in the sources.Reference treatment of Dhanvantari emerging from the Ocean of Milk during the churning that Kurma supports. (secondary)
Sources
- Dhanvantari is the heavenly physician who rises from the churned ocean holding the pot of amrita.: Reference treatments of Dhanvantari and of the Samudra Manthan. (secondary)