[INDOLOGY] the medical term jagrī?

Rolf Heinrich Koch rolfheiner.koch at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 12:46:04 UTC 2025


I connect jagrī with the kitul palm sugar (kitul juggery). It is used in 
Ayurveda. And I eat it always for my tea.

Heiner

Am 06.08.2025 um 05:55 schrieb David and Nancy Reigle via INDOLOGY:
> I have not been able to find the medical term "jagrī" in any source 
> available to me. It occurs in verse 2.111c of the /Kālacakra-tantra/ 
> (so in all manuscripts). It is in the phrase: jagrī-plīhārṣa-rogān api 
> jaṭhara-gatān. So it refers to either an organ or a disease found in 
> the stomach area, along with plīha (i.e., plīhan, spleen) and arṣa 
> (for arśas, hemorrhoids). I am seeking a source for it in any Sanskrit 
> medical treatise, and hopefully its meaning.
>
> Thank you,
>
> David Reigle
> Colorado, U.S.A.
>
>
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