The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.s1.14

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hair”, i.e., which grows from the trunk as hair from limbs, or better still, “one which has a growth of hair”, i.e., which grows in trails comparable to hair if loman, in this compound, can have the rare but proven sense of “hair” (cf., Aufrecht, Lomaśatana, in ZDMG, 1877, Vol. XXXI, p. 768). Lastly verse 2 of hymn V, 5 says: “one who drinks you, lives . . .”, yás tvā píbati jīvati . . . , which cannot be said of a creeper but can very well be explained when understood as referring to a resin as shown by the rite referred to hereafter.