>>six which they call Xastra, which are the bodies, eighteen which
they call Purana, which are the limbs, twenty-eight called Agamon which are
the joints."

 

If limbs and joints imagery is meant to view the whole corpus of texts as one single body and different texts as the limbs and joints of that body what could be the idea behind the plural bodies (corpos) ?

 

For an Indian audience, the plural 'bodies', several bodies of a single person makes sense because they are used to the idea of sthUla, sUkshma, Karana/linga and other such notions of s'arIra. But what could have been meant to be communicated and what could have been communicated to a European audience through the plural 'bodies' ?  

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