Kashyapa Rishi of the Mahabharata becomes Dhanvantari Ojha of the Manasamangal Kavya: Transmission and Diffusion of an Ancient Snakebite-Curer’s Story
Date: January 3, 2018 By: Editor Rahul Bhaumik Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Email: rahul_joy1981@yahoo.com Volume VII, Number 2, 2017 I Full Text PDF DOI: 10.25274/bcjms.v7n2.v7n2eng03 Abstract This paper focuses on the particular Mahabharata story of great snakebite-curer Kashyapa Rishi, whose resemblance we find in the character of Dhanvantari Ojha of the mediaeval Bengali narrative poetry Manasamangal Kavya or Padma Purana. Similarities between these two…