The Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus c9.13

c9.13

यथा केदारनिषक्तं कुल्याजलं प्रत्यासन्नां केदारीमाप्तावयति । तथा रस एव प्रथमं रक्तं प्लावयति । तत्र रक्तस्थानसम्बन्धात् रक्तसादृश्यं रक्तव्यपदेशंच अनुभवति । रक्तं च रक्तसमानेन स्तोकेनांशेन स्वस्वं पोषयति । ततो रक्तमाप्लाव्प मांसमाप्लावयति, एवमुत्तरोत्तरधातून् रसएव प्लावयति । (Chakradatta, Bhânumatî). This passage shows that the "venous blood" was conceived to be chyle-essence mixed with blood, and that the circulation of the chyle, so far as it was held to contribute its quota to the constituent elements and tissues of the body, was really supposed to be identical with the circulation of the blood (ततो रक्तमाप्ताव्य मांसमाप्लावयति). This will be abundantly clear from the following account of the course of the chyle and the blood:—