The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c9.79

c9.79

¹ Suśr., Śār., VII-4. Here the text does not add the word *rasa*, the organic juice, but Mahīdhara, who is also a very late author, while commenting on the word *hirā* in the *VS*, XXV-8, says that they are the *nāḍīs* which carry nourishment (*annavāhinyo nāḍyaḥ*). Now nourishment circulates in the body in the form of the *rasa*, a form which it assumes by digestion . . . cf., infra, p. 165.