Hindu Medicine c7.32
Hindu Medicine c7.32
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c7.32
The earliest text, commenting on the proper use of this kind of charm, explains that the hymn is used in a remedial rite against consumption (yakṣma) and all other diseases, together with a gilt and lacquered amulet of splinters from ten kinds of trees which is sprinkled with the residue of the sacrificial potion offered to the gods.³