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Chap.I.] healing up of traumatic ulcers.* The 'second reason for such an inference may be deduced from the replacement of the severed head of Yajna. It is told that the god Rudra, severed the head of the God of Sacrifice (Yajna). Whereupon the gods approached the celestial Ashvins, and addressed them as follows:—"You twins, O lords, who are to be the greatest of us all, connect the head of Yajna with his decapitated trunk." To them, replied the divine Ashvins:—" We shall do, O lords, as you command us to do." Then the celestials propitiated the god Indra in order that a portion of the oblations offered in the course of a sacrifice, might be allotted to those heavenly twins. The Ashvins reunited the severed head of Yajna to his body as prayed for. [Hence this branch of the Ayurveda (Shalyanga) is the oldest of all its subdivisions].

The primary importance of the Shalyam:—All hold this Tantram to be the most imnortant of all the other branches of the Mi^o See/' 'f ' "^^^ ^^ suc^w ^^ ^receptacle ofheauff iustantaueous actious can be r/VPQ ' ^ ^^ ^^^^^^ appliances as, ^ 3 Jb|*/£^getable world belongs t Ve|*Op, T o^ locomotion, belong to ^Jnav be areued here, since nd sword-cuts had to be dressed and ^ ^^^ tllQ to iuindamental material the gods and the denwns, long before ff dQ^f]^ 'ippearance Oir) ], it is not ct' idiopathic maladies such-^ as, fever, etc. ; ad Smgery contruvofold attril/ was demanded of her towards the healint; "-• up of those u'cers. li>. But s' branch of the Ayurveda is the oldest of all IP the allied brawhes of thu-se in.ng art.