Hindu Medicine c7.312

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c7.312

When the new-born babe is given the breast for the first time, the physician supervising this first feeding works an auspicious charm on the nursing mother to promote lactation (Su. III, 10). He utters these benedictory stanzas:

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Suśrutasaṃhitā — Suśruta & Nāgārjuna (siddha/alchemist), Sanskrit