The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c8.s1.32

c8.s1.32

“Facing the North, accompanied by the chanting of incantations, the patient should be made to drink it with his face turned to the East after he has recited this mantra: “that Brahman, Dakṣa, the Aśvins, Rudra, Indra, the Earth, the Moon, the Sun, Agni and the Wind, the ṛṣis, the groups of those who have the medicinal plants and the mass of spirits, guard you! That this remedy be unto you like the elixir of the ṛṣis, like the divine ambrosia, like the nectar of superior dragons”.³