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dhanvantari

dhanvan-tari m. (for °vani-t°), ‘moving in a curve’, N. of a deity to whom oblations were offered in the north-east quarter, [Kauś. 74]; [Mn. iii, 85]; [MBh. xiii, 4662] (where °tare w.r. for °tareḥ)

of the sun, [MBh. iii, 155]

the physician of the gods (produced at the churning of the ocean with a cup of Amṛta in his hands, the supposed author of the Āyur-veda, who in a later existence is also called Divo-dāsa, king of Kāśi, and considered to be the founder of the Hindū school of medicine), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [R.]; [Suśr.]

[Pur.] [Rājat. vii, 1392] (dhānv°)

N. of the author of a medical dictionary (perhaps the same mentioned among the 9 gems of the court of Vikramāditya), [Cat.]