The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c12.s3.15

c12.s3.15

³ The suffix *maya* here possesses an abstractive value, cf., *vānmaya*, "oratorial art", exactly "that which consists of words" (L. Renou, *Grammaire Sanskrite*, Sect. 201). However G. and D. understand: *kriyā-āmayaiḥ kriyānnapācanādikayā āmayenāmlapākādinā*, "as regards function, i.e., the cooking of nourishment, etc.; as regards disease, that is to say, the acidity, the maturing (excessive combustion), etc." The Bengali translation, seems justifiably, not to follow them (*sei prakāra eka vāyuī nāma sthāna o kriyā*, "similarly the wind, one, as regards names, seats and actions"). The English translation of K.L. Bhishagratna, Calcutta, 1911, Vol. II, p. 3, is too free to judge the interpretation on which it is based. The Latin translator, Fr. Hessler, Erlangen, 1844, Vol. I, p. 169, has understood it as G. and D.