The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.167

c8.167

¹ *tāmrā tanvī dāhaśūlopapannā raktā jñeyā parvaṇī vṛttaśophā|* *jātā sandhau kṛṣṇaśukle 'lajī syāt tasminn eva khyāpitā purvaliṅgaiḥ||* *—Utt., II, 6.* The "vesicles of the limb" are not the veritable limbs, yet they resemble them and that is why we call them so. It is because of this resemblance which, in India as in Europe, has caused the use of the same word for denoting them as also the real vesicles.