August 2015
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| 355 | Inasmuch as it evokes a body of the sacrifice, this image actually testifies to a continuing positive evaluation of the body in the context of ritualistic–mythological reflections, be it anthropomorphic (which I would consider more probable in the present case) or theriomorphic, because one would not expect that a sacrifice of central importance, or the sacrifice in general, would be conceived as, or equated with, something exclusively evaluated in a negative way. |
| 356 | For further references to this phrase, see Ganesh U. Thite, Medicine, 180–181. |
| 357 | Cp. ŚPBr 4.1.5.14 (translation in Julius Eggeling, The Śatapatha-Brāhmaṇa, vol. 2, 275): “… ye have wandered and mixed much among men, performing cures” (… bahú manuṣyèṣu sáṃsṛṣṭam acāriṣṭaṃ ... |