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Carpentered Young Again: What the Rigveda Says When a Body Breaks
The Rigveda's poets describe damaged human bodies with the vocabulary of the workshop: fitted, fashioned, set flowing again. Behind that habit sits a fixed formula, the blind and the lame, that three different gods are credited with undoing.
A Hundred and Seven Homes: The Rigveda's Forgotten Physician
One Rigvedic poet lists his family: he writes verse, his mother grinds grain, his father is a doctor. Medicine is the trade the Rigveda almost never gets credit for, and the hymn that preserves it is one of the strangest things in the collection.