Hindu Medicine c8.5

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c8.5

The concept of the body as an assemblage of divine powers has its place also in veterinary medicine which reflects popular belief to a higher degree than the more abstract and “scientific” conceptions of classic medicine. The “Wisdom on the Longevity of Elephants” enumerates, in the chapter on conception and formation of the foetus (III, 8), the “virtues of the gods” (devaguṇa) which abide in the organism of the animal:

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Hastyāyurveda — Pālakāpya, Sanskrit