[INDOLOGY] Dhanvantari gayatrī-mantra with source

Lucy May Constantini lucymayconstantini at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 15:46:44 UTC 2022


Dear Harry,

I'm not sure if partial ethnographic information is useful here.
Nonetheless, in the lineage of *kaḷarippayaṟṟ˘* I study, when a student
is initiated into *kaḷaricikitsa* (which understands itself as a
specialised branch of *āyurveda*), that student is given a mantra in which
Dhanvantari features as part of the initiation. However, as it's an
*upadeśa* mantra, it's not permitted to share it or write it down for
public consumption. I don't know if this is a widespread practice across
other lineages and traditions, but if so, it might explain why written
sources are so rare.

All best wishes,

Lucy May Constantini
PhD Candidate in Religious Studies
School of Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The Open University

AHRC Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP Funded

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On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 at 15:57, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> 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 <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
> 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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