The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c9.51

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vṛkya=vṛkká (TS). vṛṣaṇa (m, dual): testicles (VS, Cl.). vṛṣnya (n): virility, but *AV*, VI, 138, 4, concrete sense, (virility residing in several canals, cf., *nāḍī*), therefore “sperm”, cf., vṛṣṇiya “sperm” in *Vādhūlasūtra*, Caland, *Acta Or.*, IV, 1927, p. 184. vaitasá (m): penis (metaphorically “which is related to the reed”, cp. rod) (*RV*, *AV*, in lit. sense, Cl.). vyātta (n): open mouth (*AV*, *VS*, *TS*, Br., cf., Cl. *vyattānana*, *vyātāsya*). vyānā (m): breath diffused in the body. vríś (f): finger (*RV*). śakunisádá (m): part of the horse’s body? (*YV*). śaptra (n): labial commissure ? (*KS*) cf., *snáptra*. śaphá (m): hoof (of quadruped). śárīra (n): 1. body; 2. parts of the body (pl.) (*RV*). śárkara (m): granular bone, rugose (small bone of the face and of the cranium) [*TS*, V, 7-11 (Sāy. *śarkarāḥ tatsadṛśāni kaṭhināsthīni*)]. śākhā (f): finger (metaphorically, *RV*. denotes in Cl. the limbs by special use of the sense of “branch”) cf., *skandhá*. śikhaṇḍá (m or n, dual): flesh above the hips (Sāy.) (*TS*, *KS*). śiṅgī (f): part of the entrails (*TS*, I, 4-3-1; but *VS*, XXXIX, 8: . . . *śiṅgīni kośyābhyām . . ., Mahī.: śiṅgīni śingisaṃjñāni daivatāni*, “ś=the goddesses called ś.”). śitāman (n): according to Nirukta “arm”, “womb”, “liver”, “fat” (*VS*), cf., *śitīman*. śitīman (n, dual): excrescence near the sexual organ (Sāy.) [*TS*, *KS*, (°mant)] cf., *śitāman*. śipí (m): in *śipiviṣṭa* (=*śepa*, Nirukta). Probably, skin, prepuce (*RV*, *TS*, *KS*). śipra (n): lip ?, tooth ? (*RV*, *MS*). śiprā (f, pl.): denture (*RV*). śiras (n): head. śiśná (n): 1. penis ? (*RV*, *AV*); 2. tail. śīrṣá (n): head. śīrṣán (n): head (*V*). śīrṣakapālā (n): cranium, brainpan (head-bone in the form of potsherd) (*AV*, *TS*, Cl.). śukrá (n): sperm.