Dhanvantari, physician of the gods, rose from the Samudra Manthan bearing the pot of Amrita, the nectar of immortality that the devas and asuras had labored to produce by churning the Ocean of Milk.
Dhanvantari, the divine physician, emerged from the Kshira Sagara during the Samudra Manthan bearing a golden pot of Amrita. His appearance from the ocean established him as the divine patron of medicine and the originator of Ayurveda.
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