Questions of King Milinda Part 01

SR No.: 007681
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1890
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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VII KÂNDA, 2 ADHYÂYA, 4 BRÂHMANA, 26.
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same as all (kinds of) medicine: by all (kinds of) healing medicine he thus heals him.
21. With three verses he sows each time,-threefold is Agni: as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, with so much he thus heals him.
22. With twelve verses he sows on the ploughed ground, -twelve months are a year, and the year is Agni : as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, with so much he thus heals him.
23. On the ploughed ground he sows: he thereby heals the vital airs. And were he to sow only on the ploughed ground, and not on the unploughed, he would only heal the vital airs, and not the other (parts of the) body; and were he to sow only on the unploughed, and not on the ploughed, ground, he would only heal the body, and not the vital airs : he sows both on the ploughed, and on the unploughed, ground; and thus he heals both the vital airs and the body
24. With three (verses) he sows both on the ploughed, and on the unploughed, ground,—threefold is Agni: as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, with so much he thus heals him.
25. Fifteen jarfuls of water he pours out, and with fifteen verses he sows,--that makes thirty,the Virag (metre) consists of thirty syllables, and the Virág (the far-shining, or far-ruling) is the whole food : the whole food he thus puts into him.
26. [He sows, with Vâg. S. XII, 75 seq.; Rik S. X, 97] 'The herbs first grown three ages before the gods 1,'—the gods doubtless are the seasons,
1 Thus the St. Petersburg dictionary; while Professor Ludwig construes 'triyugam pura' together, the herbs first come from
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