Hindu Medicine c5.s3.1

c5.s3.1

Zimmer’s research in Hindu medicine extended over many years. According to his autobiography, he first turned to this subject in 1925, immediately after he had finished his book on *Kunstform und Yoga*. At that time, he saw in Paris a “charming minor hunting relief. It showed huntsmen on an elephant, the animal handing them with its trunk the deer they had killed. It gave me a pang; I felt a criticism and remorse for having dealt so exclusively with Hindu and Buddhist devotional yoga and esoteric doctrines. Here I was confronted with a scene of everyday life. I felt the necessity of