Hindu Medicine c7.133
Hindu Medicine c7.133
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c7.133
The rôle of the spiritual teacher, imparting charms and magic as the most precious elements of the art of protective healing, is emphasized by this popular tale. And the irresistible strength of the snake-poison is explained as due to the fact that the Snake Mother’s contact with the secrets of the realm of destructive powers is more intimate than that of the divine master of healing, who obtained his science of protective charms and cures through the mediation of the life-maintaining sphere.