The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c9.84

c9.84

⁵ ibid., then follows: *yābhir idam śarīram ārāma iva jalahāriṇībhiḥ* *kedāra iva ca . . .* This justifies the explanation, given by Mahīdhara, of *hirā*, as "conduits carrying nourishment" (cf., note above). Even this is possible that Mahīdhara had this passage in mind because he gives an etymology of *hirā* by the root *har*, used here in the word "channel" *hāriṇī*: *haranty annarasam iti hirā*, "the *hirās* carry away the juice of the nourishment".