The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c9.93

c9.93

¹ ... āhāryasya samyakpariṇatasya yas tejobhūtaḥ sāraḥ paramasūkṣmaḥ sa rasa ity ucyate . . . Suśr., Sūtr., XIV-1. Dalhaṇa explains *tejobhūtaḥ* as *vahnisambhūtaḥ*; It is actually under the action of the internal fire that the nourishment is digested. Thereafter Dalhaṇa gives other interpretations, which render *tejas* as *ghṛta*, “heated thing” (specialised in the sense of clarified butter, ghee) and *tejobhūta*. “equivalent to saying—become comparable to ghee”.