The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c7.s2.124

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¹ Name drawn from the Avestan *bərəzat* ‘raising himself high,’ ‘big’ *Nafədro apam* (*Yasna*, I, 6) genitive of *Naptar* (*Napāt*) *apam* is translated by Neryosengh as the “navel of the waters” (*nābhim* [accus] *apām*, Spiegel Edn., 1, 15). That-is-to-say, undoubtedly their generator and their centre of radiation as in classical India, the navel is considered as the point of departure of the vessels, nourishing the body. The Parsi priest among other things, adds that the sovereign Burja (al-Borj) is the spirit of women and that it is made of water (burjasvāmī strīṇām iajdo (=Av. *Yazata*) jalamayaḥ).