Kalpaveda
Kalpaveda, “the Veda named Kalpa”
The Kalpaveda, also written Kālpaveda, is the text of āyurveda and medicine composed by Dhanvantari.
The Pratisarga Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa tells that Bhagavān Sūrya was born at Kāśī as Dhanvantari, the son of the brāhmaṇa Kalpadatta, to free beings from the diseases made by Kali. He took the rājaputra Suśruta as his disciple, together with mature scholars, and composed the Kalpaveda. Suśruta studied it and made the Sauśruta-tantra of one hundred adhyāyas.
The wise call the body wasted by diseases “kālpa”. Knowledge of it is in this tantra, and so it is remembered as the Kalpaveda.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 9
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 9