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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 /

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.

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Main Author: Zysk, Kenneth G., (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Sanskrit
Published: Philadelphia, PA : American Philosophical Society, 1985.
Series:Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 75, pt. 7.
Subjects and Genres:
Vedas.
Véda.
Medicine, Ayurvedic.
Healing > India > Religious aspects.
Medicine, Ayurvedic
Āyurveda.
Guérison > Inde > Aspect religieux.
Healing > Religious aspects.
India.
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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.
Physical Description: xvii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-290) and indexes.
ISBN: 0871697572
9780871697578
ISSN: 0065-9746 ;

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