Disciplic Succession

Dhanvantri (One of the 24 Incarnations of Vishnu the Operator) 

Gave it to Brahma the creator, much before human came into existence. 

It was an unscripted knowledge which was passed to Daksh Prajapati the Progney Creator (Faher In Law of Shiva The Destroyer)in the form of shloka hymned by Lord Brahma. Lord Brahma gave the knowledge of ayurveda in a hundred thousand verses. These shlokas were in Sanskrit language and were verbally addressed to him by Lord Brahma. 

This knowledge of ayurveda was then passed on to two twin brothers popularly known as “physician of Gods” and was famous with name Ashwani kumar. These two brothers were excellent healers and did wonders by ayurvedic treatment. They performed such surgeries which are still considered very difficult and risky even in present scenario. Ashwani kumar were perfect in performing surgeries that they even had been successful in repairing and amputated body parts. They were even expert in medicine and had treated many people with their medicine. They had even done eye surgery which is only possible in this era. They had a famous and a very beautiful chariot made of gold. 

This heritage of ayurveda was then transferred to lords of rain and king of heaven lord Indra. Lord Indra a very well known God of Demigods graced the ayurveda by helping people in curing from their misery. He devised certain line of treatments that proved to be very helpful to people who were suffering from diseases and sorrows.But during that era, diseases and immorality started dominating the planet and people were badly affected with the miseries and diseases. Health of people was deteriorating day by day and epidemics were causing loss of human and animal life. People were getting corrupted and truthfulness was losing its ground in the heart of people. Domestic animals like cows, goat etc. played a very important part in human evolutions were also dying. Life style of people was also getting disturbed which in turn was inviting trouble to the society. 

Seeing all these mishapennings and sorrows few learned men approached lord Indra to help this planet in getting diseased free. They went to lord Indra and dictated him about the grievances mankind was facing. After hearing all these grievances Lord Indra decided to shower them with the knowledge of ayurveda, by which they could resolve the problems.A team of scholars were selected under rishi Bhardwaj and were blessed with the complete knowledge of ayurveda. This is the first time ayurveda descended on earth to humans. It was a very important day in the human history , as this was the first time people on earth could achieve longitivity by applying ayurveda in their lives. Ayurveda also provided the lifestyle techniques for healthy living and also taught social manners to improve over all personality. 

Now this prestigious life science was taught to Punarvasu Atrey a disciple of rishi Bhardwaj. Punarvasu Atrey was a very renowned scholar of his time. Due to his capabilities and learning skills he learned knowledge of ayurveda from rishi Bhardwaj. Punarvasu Atrey devoted his full life in treating people from ayurvedic remedies. 

Punarvasu Atrey had 6 disciples named Agnivesh, Bhel, Jatukarna, Parashar, Harit, and Ksharpani. Punarvasu carefully narrated all the light of ayurveda amongst his disciple. Each and every disciple observed and accessed the knowledge in his own way and all scripted this knowledge in there texts.