The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.99

c8.99

³ *Yáḥ kikasāḥ prásṛṇāti taḷīdyám avatiṣṭhati|* *nirāstam sárvam jāyányam yáḥ ca kakúdi śritáḥ||3||* *pakṣī jāyányaḥ patati sá ā vísati pūruṣam|* *tád ákṣitasya bheṣajám ubháyoḥ súkṣatasya ca||4||* *vidmá vaí te jāyánya jānam yáto jāyánya jāyase|* *kathám ha tátra tvám hano yásya kṛṇmó havír grhé||5||* *kikasa* signifies "bones" in classical Sanskrit and can specially denote the vertebral. Bloomfield interprets *ākṣita* as "boil or sore, not caused by cutting" (*Kaus-s.*, p. XLIII, Also *Am. J. Ph.*, p. 320) by reading *akṣata* because Dārila, commenting on *Kaus-s.*, XXXIII, 11 refers to *akṣata-bhaiṣajya*, "remedy of the *akṣata*" (cf., also *Kauś. s.*, XXXII, 11) and thus seems to take it as a special disease. But it is much simpler to take *akṣita* or *akṣata* in its normal sense of "intact". Caland in *Kauś. s.*, XXXI, 11, justly renders *akṣata* as "nicht gebrochene (Tumor)". The *akṣata-bhaiṣajya* is quite naturally the "remedy of that which is intact", that is to say, of the non-open collection.