The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.40

c15.40

¹ The commentary of Cakrapāṇi explains that it "reproduces the significance of assigning (presage), which shows itself as engendering the effect or as taking note of the effect" (*nimittasya yo 'rthaḥ kāryajanana-rūpaḥ kāryabodhakarūpo vā tam anukaroti*). Cakrapāṇi, therefore, does not entirely accept the sophism *post hoc ergo propter hoc* and admits that the sign is not necessarily the cause, but can simply be an announcement (*Indr.*, I, 7).