The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.109

c7.s2.109

⁴ In the RV., X, 5, 1, Bergaigne saw a reference to the internal fire. This passage, he wrote, in “giving to the fire the epithet bhūri-janmā,” ‘one who has many births’, adds that he ‘radiates from our heart, (Rel. véd, I, p. 34). The text is: ékaḥ samūdró dharúṇo rayīṇāṁ asmád dhrdó bhūrijanmā vi caṣṭe...The interpretation of Sāyaṇa is altogether different. He takes hrdó for an accusative plural and renders vi caṣṭe as vi paśyati, ‘sees’, and by jānāti ‘knows’, quoting in support of his interpretation a traditional phrase, ‘mano vai devā manuṣyasya jānanti’, ‘the gods, in sooth, know the thoughts of men, (Actually the manas is frequently localised in the heart). He invokes