The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.104

c8.104

*Aṅgabhedá* is ordinarily understood in the sense of “pain rending the limbs asunder”; however in its correct sense this compound denotes the “section of limbs”. It can, therefore, designate the spontaneous mutilations provoked by leprosy and it would be natural to see beside an ailment which causes necrosis in the bones as the *jāyānya*, another which makes the limbs fall off.