Hindu Medicine c7.299
Hindu Medicine c7.299
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Similar tales could be added indefinitely. Since the name of a thing in Sanskrit, the language of revealed wisdom, according to Hindu belief, expresses in a more or less cryptic way the nature of the thing in the realm of sound, medical knowledge offers many a clue to the character of diseases and drugs through tales disclosing the origin of their names; these mythical etymologies form part of their scientific description.