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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.