The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c9.52

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*sūpti* (f): shoulder (according to the Avestan *supti*) but Sāy.: mouth (*RV*). *śṛṅga* (n): horn. *śépa* (n): penis. *śepha* (m): penis (*TS*). *śnáptra* (n): labial commissure (Mahī. *VS*). cf., the following. *śnyáptra* (n): labial commissure (*TS*). cf., *śaptra* and *śnáptra*. *śmáśru* (n): beard. *śróṇi* (f): hip (*V*, Cl. pelvi-perineal regions). *śrótra* (n): ear (organ of hearing, not the external ear)., cf. *karṇa*. *samsīdá* (n): cf. the following (*KS*). *samsūdá* (n): nostril [*TS*, (Sāy.: *samtatakṣaraṇo nāsikādiḥ*, “continually flowing nostrils”, etc.)]. *sákthi* (n, dual, pl.): thigh (*V*, Cl.) by euphemism “vulva” (*V*). *samtāná* (m): tendon ? (*TS*). *saudhí* (m): joint, articulation. *samāná* (m): concentrated breath (*V*. except *RV*., Cl.). *sātu* (m): womb (but an improbable conjecture) (*RV*). *sānu* (m, n): back, rump (of *Vṛtra*, of *Vala*, of a horse, literally, “summit” “plateau”, cf., Benveniste-Renou, *Vṛtra et Vṛthragna*, p. 135) (*RV*). cf. *snu*. *sīmán* (m): vertex, line of the parting of hair and of the body (*AV*, Cl.). *sūtrī* (f): womb (of the cow ?) [*AV*, IX, 7-4 (But the hymn refers to the mythical bull.)]. *sṛkvan* (m, n): labial commissure [*RV*, Cl. (Suśruta, *sṛkvanī*, f)]. *séhu* (m): indeterminate viscus (*AV*, *KS*). *skandhá* (m, generally pl.): ramification of the trunk (cf. *skandhas*, *RV*, I, 32-5, referring to a tree) (*V*, Cl.), cf. *śākhā*. *stána* (m, n): breast, udder, dug. *stukā* (f): tuft of hair (on the head of a horse) (*RV*, *AV*), cf. the following. *stupá* (m): tuft of hair (*VS*) cf. the preceding and the following. *stūpá* (m): tuft of hair (*MS*) cf. the preceding. *straiṇa* (n): vulva but exactly “that which is feminine”, a sense which generally suffices (*AV*, VIII, 6-4 ?). All the texts: “that which is feminine”. *sthūra* (m, dual): fetlock-joint of a quadruped (*VS*, *TS*, *KS*, Cl.).