Title: Religious healing in the Veda :
Authors: Zysk, Kenneth G.
Date: 1985
Publisher: American Philosophical Society,
Physical description: xvii, 311 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: R
Abstract: 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 indexes.
Subject headings (LCSH): Healing--India--Religious aspects.; Hindu hymns, Sanskrit--India.; Hindu hymns.; Medicine, Ayurvedic--India.; Medicine, Ayurvedic.; Medicine--Religious aspects--Hinduism.; Vedas.; Vedas. Atharvaveda; Vedas. R̥gveda