Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s4.2

c6.s4.2

1. It may be useful to present in their entirety those passages from the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa to which I have briefly referred in some of the preceding paragraphs. They occur in the tenth and twelfth sections (kāṇḍa) of that work, in the course of describing the erection of the fire-altar. In the building of it, 360 bricks were used together with the chanting of hymns consisting of a varying number of verses. With these bricks and hymns the body and certain of its parts are compared in a mystical way.