The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.s1.10

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¹ lākṣā is the term from which the word lac is derived by means of the Persian-Arabic lak or lakk and the Latin (mediaeval) lacca. The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea (6) mentions lac as lakkhos. The two forms of Persian-Arabic are the exact transcriptions of Indian forms. In Mid-Indian, lākṣā had to change into lākhā (attested in Pali) or lakkhtā (on the final vowel cf. J. Bloch, Indo-Aryan, Paris, 1934, p. 41).