India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s7.5

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c8.s7.5

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c8.s7.5

*HUMOURS OF THE BODY*. Kātyāyana commenting on Pāṇini’s *sūtra* *Tasya nimittaṁ saṁyogotpātau* (V.1.38), mentions the three humours of the body for the first time together, viz. (1) *vāta* (wind), (2) *pitta* (bile), (3) *śleshma* (phlegm). On this basis Eggeling says, there was "some kind of humoral pathology prevalent among the Indian physicians several centuries before our era." (*Ency. Br.* Vol. 19, p. 970b, 14th edition).

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit