sir, If artava stands for the ovum and related anatomy with menstrual
blood then what is meant by raja ?

vaibhav
--- In iastam@yahoogroups.com, Dominik Wujastyk <ucgadkw@u...> wrote:
> Sanskrit "aartava" is a taddhita adjective meaning "relating to the
> season" (from Skt. ".rtu", "season"), and it means the blood that
flows in
> a woman's season or period, her menstrual blood. The female ova
and their
> related anatomy and function had not yet been discovered at the
time the
> Sanskrit medical classics were composed.
>
> Dominik Wujastyk