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Bharadvaja

The sage from whom, in the Harivamsha, the Kashi-born Dhanvantari learns Ayurveda before dividing it into eight branches; Wilson's note on the Vishnu Purana names him among the physicians the Brahmavaivarta places before Dhanvantari.

Sources: Harivamsha, Harivamsha Parva, chapter 29: the Kashi kings and the birth of Dhanvantari (English, harivamsam.arasan.info; Sanskrit with verse numbers, dvaipayana.net); The Vishnu Purana, tr. H. H. Wilson (1840), Book IV chapter VIII: sons of Ayus, the kings of Kasi, former birth of Dhanwantari (sacred-texts, read on a mirror) · see Bharadvaja's web

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Bharadvaja teacher of

Dhanvantari (God) Vaishnava · The physician who rose from the sea (Dhanvantari)
Teaches him Ayurveda, which he divides into eight.

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The physician who rose from the sea (Dhanvantari)
Legend · as teaches him Ayurveda · 2 tellings

Cited

Harivamsha, Harivamsha Parva, chapter 29: the Kashi kings and the birth of Dhanvantari (English, harivamsam.arasan.info; Sanskrit with verse numbers, dvaipayana.net) § 27 Primary text (translation)
The Vishnu Purana, tr. H. H. Wilson (1840), Book IV chapter VIII: sons of Ayus, the kings of Kasi, former birth of Dhanwantari (sacred-texts, read on a mirror) Primary text (translation)