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Religious healing in the Veda : with translations and annotations of medical hymns in the Ṛgveda and the Atharvaveda and renderings from the corresponding ritual texts / Kenneth G. Zysk.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zysk, Kenneth G., author.
- Series:
- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 75, pt. 7.
- Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 0065-9746 ; v. 75, pt. 7 (1985)
- Language:
- English
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Vedas.
- Medicine, Ayurvedic.
- Healing--India--Religious aspects.
- Healing.
- Healing--Religious aspects.
- India.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine, Ayurvedic.
- Local Subjects:
- Vedas.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : American Philosophical Society, 1985.
- Summary:
- This work examines the various diseases which afflicted the Vedic people and the treatments used to cure them and contains textual annotations to the individual hymns.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Internal diseases
- Internal diseases related to yaksmu and /or takman
- Internal diseases not closely related to yaksmu and /or takman
- External diseases
- Medicines.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-290) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0871697572
- 9780871697578
- OCLC:
- 13276440
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