| 1789 - 754 pages
...has medical {kill been prized by the ancient Indians, that one of the fourteen retttas, or precicus things, which their gods are believed to have produced by churning the octan with the mountain Mandara, was a learned phyjiti an.' He then adverts to the improvement which... | |
| Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - 1801 - 580 pages
...known. So highly has medical fkill been prized by the ancient Indians, that one of the fourteen Retna's, or precious things, which their gods are believed...learned physician. What their old books contain on this fubjeft we ought certainly to difcover, and that without lofs of time ; left the venerable, but abftrufe,... | |
| John Shore Baron Teignmouth - 1807 - 488 pages
...known. Sohighly has medical fkill been prized by the ancient Indians, that one of the fourteen Retna's, or precious things, which their Gods are believed...the ocean with the mountain Mandara, was a learned pbyjicidn. What their old books contain on this fubject> we ought certainly to difcover, and that without... | |
| Sir William Jones - 1807 - 480 pages
...known. So highly has medical fkill been prized by the ancient Indians, that one of the fourteen Retna's, or precious things, which their Gods are believed...the ocean with the mountain Mandara, was a learned phyfician. What their old books contain on this fubjett, we ought certainly to difcover, and that without... | |
| 1812 - 564 pages
...displayed. One of the fourteen Itetna's, or precious things, we are told, which among the ancient Indians their gods are believed to have produced by churning the ocean with the mountain Mandara, wa* The obscurity which enveloped the infancy of the medical art, is the same as that which belongs... | |
| 1815 - 562 pages
...Oiie of the fourteen Iteltia's, or precious things, we are told, which jiinong the ancient Indians their gods are believed to have produced by churning the ocean with the mountain Mandara, was The obscurity which enveloped the infancy of the medical art, is the same as that which belongs to... | |
| Whitelaw Ainslie - 1826 - 652 pages
...told, that so highly has medical skill been prized by the Indians, that one of the fourteen retnas, or precious things, which their Gods are believed to have produced by churning the ocean, was a learned physician ! * There are no medical tracts of any note in Dukhaniet. Such of the Hakeems... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1830 - 326 pages
...You have, doubtless, read, in the Hindi kitab, that one of the fourteen Retnas, or precious things, produced by churning the ocean with the mountain Mandara, was a learned physician." * • , " I remember something of the sort," said Mourad ; " and when you interrupted me just now in... | |
| John Forbes Royle - 1837 - 230 pages
...in which the profession has been always held there, as is evident from " one of the fourteen Retnas, or precious things, which their gods are believed...produced by churning the ocean with the mountain, Mandura was a learned physician.™ (Jones, Disc. 2) That medical substances were equally prized, we... | |
| John Fletcher Hurst - 1891 - 844 pages
...1'Inde," p. 549. • t Royle, "Lecture XI., On Arts and Maunfuctures of India," p. 343. things which the gods are believed to have produced by churning the ocean with the mountain Mandaran, was a learned physician. Even the way in which the Hindus met Alexander when he invaded their... | |
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