The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.81

c8.81

² Another complication lies in the fact that Taitt., II, 5, 6, 4 makes the nights of the fortnight to be the wives of Soma. He will be attained by disease as he does not co-habit with them during the night of the new Moon nor during that of the full Moon. The night of the new Moon being that of its conjunction with the Sun, therein lies a confirmation of the explanation given above, But that abstention during the night of the full Moon, when precisely it is in the midst of the constellations, raises difficulties. As the text has just now said that a woman should be approached neither during the night of the new Moon nor during